I agree.After all we did to get him here and then what went on when he got here,i thought he might want to show some type of gratitude,but top and bottom of it is he would rather be in the South of France than Preston Road!

The thing is mate,he saw the fans reaction upon his arrivel,he knows the club has sold merchandise,he signed for 3 years.Surely he is morally bound to stay until at least the end of the season?

True but for all we know he may have been told that a Tongan passport won't be forthcoming so has spoken to Toulon with HKR's blessing (or indeed been pushed to talk to them) as they need Dobson back more than they need Mason.

He signed two years with a years option BB if and if he is going then I wud say see ya and hope the French side get his flippin passport sorted as I read it unless they have his Tongan passport which I presume has been paid for by KR then let's hope he has to go through it all again, on the flip side this cud all be total tosh

Ah corrected, trust a woman to know it all.

Both Hull KR and the RFL have stated that he will be getting his passport.

Although TBF both organisations have been saying that for some time with no noticeable progress.

Indeed they have but I wouldn't go as far as to suggest they have been untruthful.

Abolutely

Why? The club is a business, they need to explore all the possibilities of bringing in players and for what ever reason things can go wrong, it will never be the Clubs intention of upsetting fans. Neil Hudgell is the most loyal Chairman in SL and he is always looking to improve this great club. He will take gambles, some pay off some dont, no big deal. =#FF0000No need for that if you want to continue down that road go and post on the 'other' thread-RW

If Mason is to go then so what, we will bring in some one else next season , if he stays then so be it, I am fully behind the Club and all the Directors. I like the excitment.

Well said that man



Taken from Wiki:-

"In July 2008 Williams left Australia to join French rugby union club Toulon. Canterbury Bulldogs club officials were not notified of his defection until after Williams had already departed for Europe. Williams was 18 months into a five year contract with the Canterbury Bulldogs, which was resolved when Toulon paid a transfer fee of around £300,000 to the Bulldogs".

The precedent has been set to get some serious cash here...

fab statement that and echo all u have said

You would have thought so,wouldn`t you? If Mason said he was going at the end of the season and he would give 100% untill then,i don`t think any of us could blame him.But if he goes now,it`s a bit of a slap in the face.After his first game against Crusaders,the guy was sensational,but since he`s been very average.On that form,he won`t be a big loss.

Sorry RW wasnt a troll as such but responding honestly to a previous post, but fair cop lol.

Might have your work cut out tonight



On a serious note the whole saga is either some gross cynical tactics (whether by club or player), horrendous mis-management (whether by club or by RFL), or devastating bad luck More likely a mixture of the first two IMO but I don't know the details and not many do.
One thing is for sure it does not help the image of the sport - when the Dobson/Mason registration issue first occurred I didn't like it but appreciated you 'play to the whistle' and wished our board had the nous to achieve such a feat, but unfortunately it has back fired and when these things do you have to stand up and be counted.
We could conceivably face a comparable backfire with our Gleeson gamble if it goes pear shaped and the same will have to he said then, but no reward without risk. Unfortunately there is also always consequences if the risk doesn't pay off.

RE-REGISTRATION OF AN OVERSEAS PLAYER
C1:4:7 An "overseas Player" who is removed from a Club Register during the Season cannot then be placed back on that Club's Register in that same Season save with the permission of the Board.

Clutching at straws...

...if the Tongan privy council come good and the seeming strength of the Toulon link has come from repetition rather than having a solid basis, then could a de-registered overseas quota player, on becoming non-overseas quota, re-register? I think so



One more twist, one more twist!

Given what's gone on and that Mason is currently without portfolio, stuck in East Hull, presumably unable to train with the squad, how motivated do you think he will be to bust a gut for Rovers if he is re-registered? FWIW I believe you describe a feasible scenario, but James Smailes said on RH tonight that their information was that Mason had played his last game for Rovers. I personally think Mason's been a bit "done to" in this scenario. He was keen to get here and went to Tonga to speed things up, has done all the club appearances etc asked of him, played as many minutes as asked and been a bit cross at being taken off on a couple of occasions, and now finds himself unable to ply his trade. For all that people say he might be OK to kick his heels and take the cash, at 31 he seems keen to play and Rovers administrative oversight re Galea's passport have made that impossible.

My money is on Mason playing for rovers again before the end of May.

I'd just like to lend my support to this. If you're not sure, err on the side of caution and use the other thread.

Surely Rovers can feel hard done to that the Tongan government has fallen through?

Possibly, but simple root cause analysis shows that all this stems from the incorrect judgement on Galea's Maltese passport. If Rovers had got that right, they would have either not signed Mason to start with, or offloaded another overseas player to accommodate him. All I'm saying is that of all the parties involved here, Rovers, governments, RFL etc, Mason has seemingly done everything asked of him and come out of it the wors, at least at present, as he is effectively being restrained from plying his trade despite being fit and willing to do so. Now, maybe he's not bothered whilst he's being paid, and maybe he'll go to Toulon for a whole pile of cash so will just enjoy the summer either here or in France or back home, who knows, but whilst some are a bit huffy about it and saying things like "If he doesn't want to play for us he can sod off", I think, despite people at one time thinking he was likely to create trouble for others, it's actually not panned out like that at the moment, anyway.

But that still doesn't mean you can post whatever you want the AUP still stands