best wishes for a speedy recovery scotty!!

Isn't that what the images rights stuff that was being talked about a while ago amounts too

It's also what paying Leeds the prize money from competitions amounts to. Exceptions to a rule provided for by the RFL.

There's enough idiot fans of other teams making insinuations about us without our own fans lambasting us for breaking an imaginary rule that we haven't even broken.

Whether it was the main objective or a secondary objective is neither here nor there really as one is a direct consequence of the other.

If you introduce a system that broadly distinguishes between an 'overseas trained quota' and a 'UK trained quota' within the permitted 1st grade squad size of 25 (for the salary cap) any increase on one side of the equation leads to a corresponding decrease on the other. The results were the same regardless of which way the RFL chose to sell the new requirements.

As was reported at the time the intentions of the RFL were clear"

The 12 club chief executives passed the proposal at their two-day summit in Perpignan[/i......

And how do you achieve an increase in 'Home Born Players' without a decrease in Overseas Trained players? You don't that's how, they go hand in hand.

As the RFL's CEO Nigel Wood explains."

I wonder where these 'players who are not academy, Super League or National League club-trained players' originate from. Could it be overseas?

As I have said from the outset the two go together. You cannot increase one without decreasing the other. Put the emphasis on which ever side you choose but the result is the same.

And in addition I'm sure you won't have missed the last sentence either where according to the report.....

That always formed part of my argument re the new quota system that the then club CEO's backed it only to sack it when it came to it's implementation after Gene appealed his classification. I can well imagine 'Mr 80/20 split' being to the fore in those discussions leading the case for reform yet here we are in 2010 and his own club is exceeding the overseas trained quota as the RFL intended and the club CEO's voting in favour of.

It surprises me not one iota to see the posters prepared to ignore these contradictions when they arise within the club that they support. They will, at the same time, be ridiculing other clubs for their reliance on overseas trained players and their inability to produce their own Home Grown players to the required standard.