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This is off the Hull KR fans board, it represents many of their fans starting 17's;

Briscoe
Fox
Welham
Webster
Colbon/Hall
Green
Dobson
Vella (c)

Hodgson
Watts
Mason
Newton
Galea

Lovegrove
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Fisher

Cockayne

10 out of the first choice 17 born outside the UK which IMO is shocking, to have more overseas players than Englishmen in the 17. Only two players who were brought through their academy too. This is up by 3 on the number they started this season with too. I know Salford are guilty of this too however they seem to be bringing through their own quality youth (Myler, Ratchford etc..) and also Crusaders though they are a newly formed club.

My question is, when does a club stop being 'just promoted and needing to have a few extra Aussies' to needing to do a whole lot better than they are.

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Quote: Old_Faithful_IAKW "This is off the Hull KR fans board, it represents many of their fans starting 17's;

Briscoe
Fox
Welham
Webster
Colbon/Hall
Green
Dobson
Vella (c)

Hodgson
Watts
Mason
Newton
Galea

Lovegrove
Clinton
Fisher

Cockayne

10 out of the first choice 17 born outside the UK which IMO is shocking, to have more overseas players than Englishmen in the 17. Only two players who were brought through their academy too. This is up by 3 on the number they started this season with too. I know Salford are guilty of this too however they seem to be bringing through their own quality youth (Myler, Ratchford etc..) and also Crusaders though they are a newly formed club.

My question is, when does a club stop being 'just promoted and needing to have a few extra Aussies' to needing to do a whole lot better than they are.'"


Why don't you get a life you saddo?

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No offence but you've posted 3000 more times than me on this forum. Why don't you get a life you saddo? If you don't like the discussion in a thread don't open the thread.

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Quote: Old_Faithful_IAKW "No offence but you've posted 3000 more times than me on this forum. Why don't you get a life you saddo? If you don't like the discussion in a thread don't open the thread.'"

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why don't you 2 jog off to your own boards...the rest of us think its frigging boring!

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Quote: roughyedspud "why don't you 2 jog off to your own boards...the rest of us think its frigging boring!'"

So you don't find the fact a team has more foreigners than Englishmen in the 17 a point for discussion? My question was when a team can't use the 'We're new to SL, we need some exemption excuse'.

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Quote: Old_Faithful_IAKW "No offence but you've posted 3000 more times than me on this forum. Why don't you get a life you saddo? If you don't like the discussion in a thread don't open the thread.'"

Do you mean my 2.8 posts per day compared to your 6.97??? Get that life c020.gif

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Good point. Very poor from Hull KR.

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Quote: Old_Faithful_IAKW "So you don't find the fact a team has more foreigners than Englishmen in the 17 a point for discussion? My question was when a team can't use the 'We're new to SL, we need some exemption excuse'.'"


I agree with what you say but am not too concearned. As the federation trained rules kick in the number for all clubs will eventually be reduced to 5. Any player trained outside the federation who was in SL before the rule was implimented is excempt and classed as federation trained but it wont be long before such players have retired.

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Quote: Eastbourne Warrior "I agree with what you say but am not too concearned. As the federation trained rules kick in the number for all clubs will eventually be reduced to 5. Any player trained outside the federation who was in SL before the rule was implimented is excempt and classed as federation trained but it wont be long before such players have retired.'"

The OP would not be too concerned either if it was any one but Hull KR icon_biggrin.gif

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Quote: Old_Faithful_IAKW "So you don't find the fact a team has more foreigners than Englishmen in the 17 a point for discussion? My question was when a team can't use the 'We're new to SL, we need some exemption excuse'.'"


hull fc fan digging hull kr......thats all anyone will see

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Quote: roversmad "The OP would not be too concerned either if it was any one but Hull KR Please refer to my posts on the Bradford forum about them signing an unknown in Patrick Ah Van and also note what I said about Salford.

HTH.

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Quote: Old_Faithful_IAKW "Please refer to my posts on the Bradford forum about them signing an unknown in Patrick Ah Van and also note what I said about Salford.

HTH.'"


Did you say the same last year when you signed Fitzgibbon or O'mealy. We all need foreigners in our teams and we will all sign more in the future. Wigan got slated for signing 3 Melbourne players when we were releasing 4 foreigners to accomodate them. In the past most SL teams have had too many overseas players but as i said previously it wont be long before each team only has 5 unless of course we start signing them at 18.

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Quote: Eastbourne Warrior "Did you say the same last year when you signed Fitzgibbon or O'mealy. We all need foreigners in our teams and we will all sign more in the future. Wigan got slated for signing 3 Melbourne players when we were releasing 4 foreigners to accomodate them. In the past most SL teams have had too many overseas players but as i said previously it wont be long before each team only has 5 unless of course we start signing them at 18.'"

No, because Fitzgibbon and O'Meley took our overseas players to 6 which is pretty much average for SL unlike the 10 Hull KR have or Salford.

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Quote: Old_Faithful_IAKW "Please refer to my posts on the Bradford forum about them signing an unknown in Patrick Ah Van and also note what I said about Salford.

HTH.'"

If I valued your opinion I would. As I don't, I won't bother.

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