The rfl need to be more strict on the rules of the quota system. At the moment it seems like there's more loopholes then there are rules.

I don't believe it will miraculously make the England team world champions like some people think.

What will make them world champions is clubs investing more on youth development and to promote the game.

In fairness they have been more young players coming through than ever before. We got rid of promotion and relegation (which does take a way a lot of excitement for the bottom end clubs and championship clubs) to promote our young players, then our national coach goes and picks a load of Aussie and Kiwis.

There are over 100 overseas players in SL, thats about 50 too many.

Your right but, is this not the case for every popular sport, i.e- football, rugby union and the like? Not saying it's right but thats the way sport is and i can't see it changing anytime soon.

As a supporter of a club that seems to find all sorts of ways to have more overseas players than necessary I would agree that the quota rules need to be tougher not abandoned. Personally I would link the SL grant to the number of European developed players (I think it would be good to see more Welsh, French etc players in SL for the good of the Int game) on a direct % basis ie:

1-4 non European trained = 100% of grant
5-7 = 75% of grant
8-10 = 50% of grant
10+ = 25% of grant

That way clubs can decide what they want to do but know that there would be financial consequences. The money not taken up by clubs who decided they would rather have more overseas players could be pumped back into jnr development by the RFL.

Having said that the ridiculous decision by the RFL to exempt Crusaders players from the quota shows they aren't really that serious about it so if the governing body don;t care why should the clubs?