signed for harlequins for next year.

Names I heard mentioned last night,

Thackray
King
SBW (Millards mate I think and if he does have European Origins and the appropriate documents then Wakefield have a non-fed trained spot available

)

These two rumoured signings are on top of the Paul Johnson one I think.

The surprise must be a third player ?.

A Warrington player??

SBW is Roosters bound now they have released Willie Mason allegedly...Story thats been floating around NRL past few months..

I believe Fully’s post has it right and to be honest I have no idea how Galea could’ve been fitted it. He wouldn’t have been able to get an exemption and the non-fed trained space (at the time) was potentially occupied. It has been alluded to on here that he will sign up next season instead so perhaps the club didn’t realise the situation and decided to put off the deal for another year.

If Jeffries were to become a UK citizen, which he was looking into before he left in 2007, there may be a chance that he would become exempt (due to his stay in this country and EU passport status) but I’m not sure if it’s possible for a player to make himself retrospectively exempt.

One down - one to go!

Is the other dependant on player movement between two other clubs??

I think Galea is entilited to a Maltese pasport so would presumably have got a work permit as an EU citizen, moot point really as he`s now signed a deal with Canberra.

Don't know I'm afraid.

The trickle feed has dried to a drip!

I see that Everton's stadium plans have been rejected - following months of discussion.

I know it's a different scale to our own - and a very different development, but it's a wake up call all the same.

Now his conviction has been quashed, i dont suppose there is a chance we could get Greg Bird on a foreign passport is there???

I think the local resistance was greater then anything the 20 or so people living near Newmarket could muster, and, as you say, the scale could also have put paid to the development. 50K would’ve put a hell of a lot of strain on the local infrastructure.