ddtftf wrote:But but we only have 1 quota spot
It may have just gone up to five.
This has been posted on rlfans:
The RFL wrote: Super League Clubs agree extension to exemption of club trained rules
After consultation with engage Super League clubs at this week's end of season meeting, the RFL board has approved an extension to a recent exemption to the club trained rules.
At the meeting held in Harrogate, engage Super League clubs unanimously agreed that the club trained rules should remain and that a number of players registered in the competition prior to the adoption of the club trained rules should count as federation trained players.
Clubs also agreed that any legal case brought against the RFL for introducing such rules should be defended vigorously.
Rod Findlay, the RFL's in-house lawyer said: "The club trained rules were introduced at the start of the year to increase the number of home produced players in the top flight. Clubs are fully behind these rules and reaffirmed their support this week.
"What this extension does is accommodate those players who have made a career in the game before they were aware of the possibility of club trained rules. Long term once the people qualify for the current exemption retire the club trained rules will do what they were designed to do and that is bring through more home grown talent."
To take advantage of the extension of the exemption a player must apply to the RFL to be 'federation trained' at the end of their current contract. They also must have registered with the RFL prior to 1 February 2008, the date when the club trained rules were introduced.
Their status as a federation trained will then apply throughout their career, even if they move clubs in the future.
I have not seen this mentioned on any of the news sites yet but it looks like a press release form the RFL. I normally get these as I am a mod on rlfans as well but I think the spam filter at work blocked it as I have not received a copy.
Anyway this will mean Feka, Bailey, Richards and TL will be considered federation trained for the rest of their careers. So in effect would could sign 5 overseas players for 2009 as their slots are freed up and we had one space left but not long term as new players (in contrast to those four) would never become federation trained. Phelps and Smith will not either as they arrived after Feb 1st 2008.
I personally hope we don't end up with yet more overseas players so we end up with 9 or 10 but with this rule relaxed it it would not surprise me if we did.
Dave
We can only sign one more overseas player so if he is bringing more than one winger back one of them will have to be English or rather English federation-trained.
quite a good player wing ,fullback , centre in that order nippy good hands .
