Warrior4eva posted:
Geoff,
Can you clarify your earlier post.
I nderstand abot federation players, home grown and oversea's and that clubs are allowed only 10 oversea's players which will be reduced each year but for some reason I believe I have read somewhere that you can only sign 5 quota players with the other 5 being i.e Kolpak.
No the official email from the RFL said 40% overseas now and that must go down to 20% by 2011. That is 10 now down to 5 by 2011.
At the same time the number of "home grown players" must be 5 in 2008 and must be 8 by 2011.
The rest of the squad must be federation players that is basically players who started their careers in the UK like Hansen or say someone like Higham is a federation player.
So in 2008 the make up of a squad of 25 must be.
Maximum of 10 overseas players
Minimum of 5 home grown
The rest federation trained.
In 2011 it will be
Maximum of 5 overseas players
Minimum of 8 home grown
The rest federation trained.
An overseas player is one who was not federation trained so that means Aussies, NZ'ers, Kolpacks and EU passport holders such as Pat Richards are all classed as overseas players fropm next season.
I think this will see an influx of Aussies in the next few seasons and may be why we are linked with both Hodgson and king whereas previously we could have only gone for one of them having two Aussies on the books next season already.
Dave
