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.

So with johnson signed months ago its 3 players where signing + the 2 wigan lads??

Not sure about the Wigan lads - there has been discussion but not gone any further than that - as I understand it!

Yep - I think the development was against local wishes - and we know that not to be the case (generally) with ours.

I don't think the importance of what our fans have done can be over-stated!

I think most Everton fans didn't want it as it would mean them moving out of Liverpool.

Being an Evertonian I voted for the move as the development of Goodison is nigh on impossible.
The move was only a couple of miles down the road over the border in Kirby.
It as been knocked back because of the impact on retail shopping in the City Centre not on local objections.
I would also vote for a stadium share with the reds in Stanley Park if push comes to shove and it means being able to compete.

Mainly due to the gigantic Tesco and shopping complex attached that would have decimated local business

We could do with a TESCO on the newmarket development North Wakefield could do with a supermarket we've nothing apart from the Coop

there's a lidl up the road in woodlesford!!!!!




not technically north wakey, I know!!!!!!

Just heard a whisper that thackery hasn't signed for quins and that he's in talks with us. If it falls through with us he's been offered a deal by kr as they can't get Joel Clinton

Is Josh Cordoba still available he holds a spanish passport...short term solution to Stosic loss??

I'd love to see jamie thackray in a Wakefield shirt so I hope the whisper is true.

So would I, if kear can get the best out of him that is. If I'm right in thinking it was kear in charge of hull when thackery used to terrorise us. I'd take him over king anyway

Aspinwall?

Now where did that name come from? Someone else guessed it as well - but no-one is saying owt!

at last

Are they saying whether its a permanant deal or a season long loan ?

All I know is that they were after 2 - not inc the one we all know about. One has signed and the other is hoped to follow shortly!