Just announced and could really help teams approaching and come the business end. I can see maybe James Bell being a possible for us (I hope as I’m a big fan) but I think this may help the others around us more.
The ruling basically says that for this season a change to loan players and the deadline looks like this.
- players currently out in loan can remain out past the deadline (today) and still be eligible to return and play for their parent club.
- once a player is recalled after the deadline however, they are then not allowed to go back out on loan.
- if the parent club wants a player to be eligible for the playoffs, they must recall him before the playoffs begin.

In essence it lets parent clubs let players remain out on loan without the jeopardy of things significantly changing and then being short come playoffs. This will allow Champ teams to keep loanees longer and have them potentially still available for the playoffs because they havn’t been recalled as a precaution by the parent club.
Bottom line, I believe we have the strongest squad regardless (especially with the addition of Lachlan) but it makes things just that little bit more interesting and challenging for everyone, especially in that one off game scenario.
Classic RFL, change the goal posts no matter how late in the game.

If announced when you say, Vanners (no reason to doubt you, of course), that would be after the meeting with IMG. Rimmer's gang had previously announced no change to [ustructure[/u for 2023 but that was as far as said announcement went.

Wonder if we will see more changes revealed in the coming weeks that will apply to '23. Further wonder if the Owners/Chairmen/Club Lawyers already know of some of these.

It could make for an interesting watch over the next two to three months.

The reason given in the article by Matt Shaw in Hull Live is as follows
“The new rulings have been put into place to help clubs struggling with injury and suspension, across the game, clubs are struggling to name a full 21-man squad this weekend. It also provides more playing opportunities for players who may otherwise have struggled to play again this season due to a lack of opportunity.”
The article was dated Thursday July 21st.
It does make you wonder as you say B&B.
I don’t see how this season is any different to others (especially those where we had significant injury issues in SL as per 2017 if I remember rightly). More importantly though, it is once again an arbitrary rule change that could affect some clubs hugely depending on who they do or do not have agreements with and what players are available to them.

The whole loan thing is a complete farce.e.g Hull are short of players,so get 3 on loan.Then they let Shaul go on loan to Wakefield.