: Wed Jul 08, 2009 12:01 pm  

In Deacon's defence he hasn't been all that bad in the last 2 matches. Fair enough he hasn't been all that great but of the 2 half backs he's been better than Jefferies against Leeds and Cas

: Wed Jul 08, 2009 12:20 pm  

cieranblonde wrote:

In Deacon's defence he hasn't been all that bad in the last 2 matches. Fair enough he hasn't been all that great but of the 2 half backs he's been better than Jefferies against Leeds and Cas

: Wed Jul 08, 2009 12:22 pm  

cieranblonde wrote:

he's been better than Jefferies against Leeds and Cas

I honestly forget much of the Leeds game now, but I think you were watching a different Cas game to me.

: Wed Jul 08, 2009 2:15 pm  

cieranblonde wrote:

In Deacon's defence he hasn't been all that bad in the last 2 matches.

It's all relative.

: Wed Jul 08, 2009 5:57 pm  

tigertot wrote:

It's all relative.

I think it is really

: Wed Jul 08, 2009 9:26 pm  

tigertot wrote:

It's all relative.

To what/whom?

: Thu Jul 09, 2009 5:57 am  

Stul wrote:

UEFA keep threatening to introduce it into the CL, and then their legal people come up with another reason why they can't.

As an EU citizen, Rinaldi is entitled to exactly the same treatment as Finnegan and the Hendersons. The RFL rules cannot beat the law of the land.

By letter of law yes, but all clubs did a gentlemans agreement on it, they all agreed to these new rules, if rfl just pushed it through without asking them then they could be taken to court, but all clubs sat down with rfl, they went thru whats best to develope england/gb etc and came up with these rules between them.
If not all clubs would go thru if they could have an eu passport. ie korkidas etc.

: Thu Jul 09, 2009 6:43 am  

chris20 wrote:

To what/whom?

Deacon being not that bad is relative to his own usual badness.

: Thu Jul 09, 2009 7:43 am  

ritz wrote:

By letter of law yes, but all clubs did a gentlemans agreement on it, they all agreed to these new rules, if rfl just pushed it through without asking them then they could be taken to court, but all clubs sat down with rfl, they went thru whats best to develope england/gb etc and came up with these rules between them.
If not all clubs would go thru if they could have an eu passport. ie korkidas etc.

But a gentleman's agreement wouldn't stand up in court in Rinaldi, or somebody in a similar position, chose to challenge it.

: Thu Jul 09, 2009 10:30 am  

redeverready wrote:

It's the same system UEFA are introducing in to the champions league and they wouldn't have done anything that could be challenged in court. .

Uefa has two problems with this. Firstly, because of EU regs, the teams and respective associations would have to enter into an agreement only as it could not be enforced. Secondly, Eufa would be open to individual EU players bring restraint of trade charges.