: Wed Jul 15, 2009 5:31 pm
St pete wrote:
so we got spot then?
for 2010 the limits are:
1. At least 7 players trained at own club. No probs there:
Wellens
Wheeler
Eastmond
Graham
KC (if he carries on)
Roby
Clough
Ashurst
Dixon
Lomax
Moore
I suspect you could also include Gardner and Wilkin, as they joined us at such a young age.
2. Maximum of 6 overseas trained players:
Gidley
Soliola
Meli
Puletua
Flannery
Cayless
Apparently there is now an exemption for players who were already signed up before the new rules were announced in 2007. In which case you could take Meli, Cayless and Gidley off that list.
So we've got 3.
3. Maximum of 5 players who hold a non-EU or non-Kolpak passport:
Gidley
Soliola
Meli
Puletua
Flannery
Cayless
Unless at least one of the above players holds a kolpak passport (perhaps Meli and Puletua might, having both played for Samoa), somebody has to go. Presumably that will be Cayless.
SO ... we definitely have room for 3 kolpak/EU passport holding foreign players.
Assuming Cayless goes: If one of Meli or Puletua hold kolpak passports then we have room for one Aussie or Kiwi passport holder. If both of them are kolpaks then we have room for two. If neither of them are kolpaks we can't have any.
Simple.
