Ta - just seen it

Can I be the 1st to say "Why do we need EVEN more 2nd rowers" ??? Perhaps he too used to play SH / SO in his "youth" !

nope that only applies to dual reg players. and that was reduced to 3-4 games this yr rather than 8. Normal loans and permanent signings are allowed to play in qualifiers provided they sign before the 24th of july, not 100% sure of date but its basically that weekend.

Haven't they also changed the dual reg rules with regards to Middle 8s this year?

Last year they had to declare before they started which team they were playing for, and that was that. They couldn't play for the other team for the duration.
I believe they were talking about scrapping that this year, but not sure if it went through.

is he? leyther that is

yes they have changed it but with a caveat. A dual reg player has to have played at least 3 games for the dual reg club to be eligble to play for them in the qualifiers, BUT if he has played eight games for the dual reg club then he can feature for both them and his parent club. in other words if he's played between 3 and 7 games for dual reg club then he rules as are last year and he has to stick to one club for duration of qualifiers but if hes go eight games in then he can switch back and forth between dual reg and parent club just like in regular season. Can't think of any players that latter case would apply to of top of my head.

Jordan Baldwinson will have done for Fev. Probably a couple of the Widnes boys up in Cumbria too (Chamberlain & Chapelhow)