You're in a taxi with Hudgell, admit it!

And what if Galea's Maltese passport application is turned down??

www.rugbyleaguetoday.co.uk/rfl-c ... er-fiasco/ Everything cleared up for you here....

www.rugbyleaguetoday.co.uk/rfl-c ... er-fiasco/ Everything cleared up for you here....

[urlhttp://www.rugbyleaguetoday.co.uk/rfl-clear-up-mason-transfer-fiasco/[/url

pick the bones out of that.

so, all our Tongan's are off quota now?

Thats the same E-mail that Neil Hudgell sent to RFL head office last week.

seems this is going to open the flood gates now as players who hold a current passport for a country such as the Cook Islands, Samoa, Tonga, or an EU country wont count as Quota players.

can see plenty of teams seeking players removal from the quota now, Hull fc be one as they went to all that trouble of getting Hame into the country the correct way.

www.code13rugbyleague.com/2011/0 ... explained/ Well finally thats cleared that all up "SIMPLES" REALLY WAS'NT IT ! CAN HEAR THE SUDDEN RUSH OF WATER NOW THAT THE FLOOD GATES HAVE OPENED ! RFL WILL BE BESIDE THEMSELVES THINKING OH S*IT WHAT HAVE WE STARTED? And thinking "bloody hkr what with the cooke registration to rovers now this how we gonna wriggle out of this"

www.code13rugbyleague.com/2011/0 ... explained/ Well finally thats cleared that all up "SIMPLES" REALLY WAS'NT IT ! CAN HEAR THE SUDDEN RUSH OF WATER NOW THAT THE FLOOD GATES HAVE OPENED ! RFL WILL BE BESIDE THEMSELVES THINKING OH S*IT WHAT HAVE WE STARTED? And thinking "bloody hkr what with the cooke registration to rovers now this how we gonna wriggle out of this"

no licensce for 2012-15

So it's clear then. You gave me a tenner...

Did everyone miss this bit?



This would fit in with the rules as already understood, but conflicts with the alleged quote by Wood in the HDM.

FFS.

They were never on quota. They are just non-fed. I've done the reckoning to the best of my ability on the thread on our board, for both KuH's clubs.

It isn't the floodgates opening, after all.

It seems that one of the 3 people who understood the rules was Neil Hudgell (I thought I was one but wasn't). I'll save my applause for our board.

The Mirror must have missed out a 'non-' (or possibly Wood misspoke slightly).

Haven't had to think this hard since trying to imagine a tesseract - proper mental gymnastics.

I did wonder if that was a possibility.

Having read through again, this is still a change to the rules as previously published where a quota player would have counted on both lists. The published scheme had the TOTAL number of non-English players allowed as 5 for 2011 onwards. Smells like fudge to me...

Going forward, a quota player is likely to count on both lists - unless a young Aussie comes across to join a SL academy, which you'd assume would be rare. There exist for now fed-trained quota players because of the 2008 fed-trained exemptions.

'Non-English' is a concept the rules had to deliberately avoid. My understanding was the same as yours - but do you have a link to it being explicitly stated?

So was all the flack given to rovers and the situation warranted, as in, have these FAQs cleared the situation up?

The rules for 2011 that were previously published stated that a club could have a maximum of 5 players who were not club trained or federation trained. This latest statement doubles that figure.

It's a change to the rules and the RFL are trying to conceal the fact and pretend that it was all just a misunderstanding.

Bunkum.

I'll go link hunting later, but it was on both the RFL and SLE websites at one time.

This is is how I have interpreted what they have said today, so does this mean you can have a maximum of five quota players and five non federation trained players now? With some quota players counting on both lists?

Exactly, they're taking us for complete mugs by pretending that these were the rules all along.

Strange, because [url=http://www.loverugbyleague.com/feature_1773-quota-rules-explained.htmlHERE[/url it seems to state that players can be on BOTH lists. So you would still have only 5 'Non-fed trained' players regardless!! Maybe Tongans aren't quota but they are non-fed as are quota players!!



Somethings going on!

TBH i'm finding this hard to get my head around.
So are we now saying that any club can go and sigh 5 Aussies and 5 EU/Kolpacks.
Or do the Aussies count on both lists?

That's how I understand what was said, you can have 5 quota players and 5 non fed players, but most aus/nz will count on both lists, but a kolpack will just count as a non fed player.


So in theory:

Quota:
Fitz
O'Meley

Non Fed:
Moa
Hame
Fitz
O'Meley

They're now saying that the lists are separate but players can count on both.

So there are now 10 places available for players who are not club trained or Federation trained instead of the 5 places previously published.

Players from countries outside the EU/Contonou agreement would count on both (overseas & non fed)

Players from EU/Contonou countries count only on the non fed list.

How ironic that the mail show a pic of Mason in his oz kit hmmm Tongan my back side, it's about time the international RL cracked down on players playing for two different nations once you choose to play for one nation that's it for the rest of your career.