What the hell is wrong with you people.

Do your clubs even want our players. These boys have been left in the dark about everything. At least with this ruling they have a chance to get a job. How many of you actually forget that it's a job to these guys.

Oh, how about the fact they haven't been promised to get paid by the end of the year. Would you like to work for 3 months and get paid nothing.

Would Wakeys (for example) overseas players been exempt next year had they lost out as part of the franchising system.
That , in theory, could have happened to Crusaders anyhow.

There's a difference. The Crusaders looked to be all but certain to gain another 3 years. Infact, I believe the players were even told to think so.

Essentially they have all wasted 6 months of being able to find other clubs.

2 questions:

1. Are they still exempt from quota if they sign for a Championship club?

2. Are they exempt from having valid work visas as well?

Thats my view.

This.

I understand why some aren't happy with the ruling, but at the end of the day the players are blameless in all this and leaving them high and dry would help no-one.

My brother made a good point. We're about to lose an expansion club with a few exemptions for a traditional club with none. We're going to have a player shortage. This will actually help.

If any of the dissenting voices lose their gainful employment through no fault of their own, can i reserve the right to beef like f**k about it if someone else offers them work?

Don't know the answer to the first one, as the exemption just grants them "fed-trained" status which is irrelevant in the Championship IIRC?

As the visa is UK Borders Agency issue and nothing to do with their status under RFL rules, they will need a new one on change of employer. Seem to remember Weller Hauraki having to apply for a new visa when he moved from Crusaders to Leeds.

Yes. All of SL.

Seriously, Crusaders players will have signed deals on the understanding that they'd be playing for Crusaders. The Crusaders board have stuck two fingers up at the players, metaphorically, and now you've got 13 players with no job for next season and at a disadvantage in finding a new job due to their overseas status and the stupid overseas restrictions that the RFL impose.

So, to be fair to those players, the RFL have given them the chance to get new clubs and thus be able to support themselves and their families financially.

I can't believe the uproar this has caused. Quotas have a sketchy legality to begin with, so I think what the RFL have done is smart and heads off any possible legal proceedings which might well have seen the beloved quota rules scraped entirely.

Fair on who ? what about the young home grown players ? screw all these second rate aussies get them shipped back just like the last lot that were sent packing !!!