and why is it taking them so long to confirm whether we have a free quota spot or not.

Absolutely. The two go hand in hand. Rank amateur stuff yet again.

Agreed. Poor that it's not in the rules to start with, another level of poor that this just wasn't sorted within 10 mins of the issue being raised.

Its absolutely amateur

That's a bit harsh. Its just an issue that's never come up before, so isn't codified. The cap exemption will only have been applied a few times since it was first mooted (be interesting to know, as absolutely certain pre season-ending injuries aren't that common). Anyone who has any experience of contracts or legislation will know that these things are often drafted with what seem to be "obvious" gaps. Filling those gaps, despite how obvious they might be, often isn't straightforward, as there may be a tortuous process to do so.

Nah, it's much easier doing a brain-dead pile onto the RFL and mis-spelling Hetherington's name.

Matty Lees anyone rumours that Saints are losing Morgan Knowles and Matty Lees due to Capp space Knowles to Dolphins Wire sniffing Lees.
Come on Leeds great prop if we have any spec due to Sivo.

Those moves are not going to be for this season. The Sivo cap space is so they are unrelated timing wise.

I’d say the brain dead ones are the ones who fail to consider overseas players when allowing salary cap dispensation. Amateur.

It's far from a brain dead pile on. It shouldn't be beyond the wit of the RFL to consider the OQ situation at the same time as the cap when drafting regs. Occurrences may be rare, but clearly have been considered likely enough to draft the cap dispensation rule. If it hasn't been considered that this may apply to an OQ player, and therefore the impact on said OQ then yes, it is amateur.

Did you think of it when the first occuronce happened? It's only fairly recent that I can think of it happening, within the last couple of years as far as i know. If you thought of it did you say " what about quota players? why haven't they made provisions?"
If not, why not?