Other crusaders players are looking less of a gamble now, Chan for example?

right lets have a good quality forward on quota please.

would think crusaders agents phones will be going mental in wake of this announcement. hopefully hood has at least enquired about witt/hanbury and chan would be a good call for the impact prop role. assuming witt and hanbury are snapped up by other clubs wonder if we've burnt our bridges with herbert. Given now free quota spot a sammut/herbert halves pairing with gale and jeffries as backup looks a lot more balanced to me.

no vbfg, I am sure you are wrong, and the same applies to the Salary cap too, they go to Warringtons supporters blog, see from the postings there that they aren't over the cap, it must be the truth, so no probs!!! Keeps the cap admin costs down.

its really good fortune, lets hope that we can make the most of it.

I am not vbfg.

im not either

i am spartacus

My name is Maximus Decimus Meridius !!!

my name is minimus dickius

Antonio Kaufusi has been mentioned for quins and is def looking. Big strong no nonsense prop and may be able to find a quota loophole. is he worth looking at?

Connor now posted on twitter

"In the wake of the RFLs announcement on Crusaders players, Bulls are seeking clarification on Jarrod Sammut's quota status - Uncertain at the moment"

Thought he'd already been announced as a signing by quins?

Sammut will only be off quota for 1 year, makes you wonder whether Bradford would have given him a longer deal with hindsight?

Can see the RFL not allowing Sammut to be off quota. If they dont cant we just offer him a new deal?

If they dont let him be off quota then offering him a new deal wouldnt help as he'd be signing it as a bulls player not a crusaders one. The dispensations are only for crusaders players signing their first deal for another club. Presumably we've already registered his contract with RFL before announcing the signing. If we'd known the dispensation was pending then presumably we'd have at least put an option for extra years in the contract. Would be petty in extreme of RFL to not grant the dispensation to sammut but I won't be at all surprised if they dont.

Obeying their own rules is not "petty". When you buy something and are happy with the price, but next day there's 33% off, would you go back to the shop saying how unfair it all was?

The RFL may give the Bulls a special dispensation for the dispensation, but the fact seems to be we signed him pre-dispensation so the rules as they were then do apply.

It does add fuel to the fire of which way the Bulls are thinking, though, if we must now presume that they signed him on the basis that he WOULD take up a quota spot.