Not as good as him.

Solid enough player, may stand out more in SL. Never really shone in the Newcastle side.

Honest opinion.

Cory Patterson's a .

I'd hate him at Hull.

It will hardly make one shred of difference, you obviously don't understand how it works.

Why?

Heard his interview on radio this morning where he says he has gone to Rovers to win championships.

Who said Aussies don't have a sense of humour?

he's in for a major shock if thats his thinking

He's just not a very nice person.

He's easily influenced and has some horrible people around him.

Strange description of "a friend" ?

You know what they say.. Keep your friends close and your enemies even closer!!

LOL

Swear filter.

Will fit in well at Rovers

Well you did say you was a friend of his

If he didn't have an English passport, would he or would he not be counted on the full quota, or would he be just non-fed still?

looking on youtube he looks like a big hitter and scores quite a few tries
quite a good player in my opinion we shall see though
p.s hopefully not lol

Think your missing the point. You can ONLY have 5 quota players which in turn count as 5 non fed players. If you bring in 5 non fed players you have no room for quota players as you have no non fed spots left. DOH!!

Isn't Lovegrove classed as quota, but fed trained due to the age he joined Rovers?

Quota doesn't automatically = non-fed.

Lovegrove isn't quota or non federation. He's classed as a homegrown. If he had come to Rovers after the age of 21 he'd be a non fed player due to ancestry.

ive watched the game for years and i still cant understand the quota/fed ruling

What hard to understand?

You can have 5 quota or Non fed players. Just bear in mind that a quota player counts as both. The theory is that when dispensations for all current players run out clubs will have 5 overseas players ONLY.

Once the players who were here before 2008 all leave or retire - the Manu's, Galea's, Martin's etc then it will become much easier to understand I think.

Because you can't refuse a person the right to work here based on nationality because of the EU and some other agreement they needed a new way of limiting foreigners, which is the non-fed rule. But players who were here before 2008 couldn't legally be non-fed as they were already here, which is why there are exemptions.

The quota in the next 4 or 5 years when all these exemptions have retired will be largely irrelevant, this Paterson might have a UK passport but he's still non-fed so takes up one of those spots. The only players Rovers can sign with the other half of the spot are those who are fed trained but quota, so someone like Ben Galea.

It's a bit of a long winded explanation but I think it's right!

But this is wrong, as he should be non-fed trained

How can he be non fed when club train rules apply to any player between the age of 16-21, We signed Lovegrove when he was 18-19 so he's club trained