If your going to count Rinaldi at Wakey then you need to add Elima at Bradford.

elima is british trained coming through the academy system at castleford.

Batieri and Greenshields are French - I think Dureau may be part-french too, though I don't really care. Doesn't matter though, as Blanch should count double because he's ENGLISH!

They are not federation trained in the country where they play...therefore according to the original post.. overseas.

Heard that Leo-Latu won't be coming to us as he can't get a visa.

Let's just sum it up for what it is!!!

A SHAMBLES.


It's so absurd that even the Cougars will have 3 aussies this season!!!!

The games is REALLY showing it's development skills in this country.

What would the state of our game be without these imports?

There's a fine balance between bringing in imports and filling your team with them. I'm all for imports being part of our game. However, if they were drastically reduced, the talent pool and no doubt, quality, of the England side would improve. It would also allow us the depth of squad needed to offer more international friendlies throughout the season and develop the International game in our country. Sometimes you have to look at the wider picture than just inside the zone that is one's own club.

without all of them? probably an initially large fall in quality followed by a period of building the game back up to its level which would unfortunately take about 20-30 years.

Without about 40-60%, an initial small fall in quality, followed by no noticeable difference in 2/3 years and improvement from there onwards putting us fairly quickly into a better position.

Agreed.

Dont worry smokey clubs like cas are there to show everyone the way

It would be good if we could compare this to the number of home grown players in teams squads, i'll do cas (with number of games played for club)

huby-156 games
arundel- 10 games
thompson-17 games
holmes-5 games
orr- 191 games
davies- 1 game
owen- 72 games
milner- 4 games
massey- 8 games
walker- 7 games
clarke- 0 games
harris-0 games
orange-0 games

And out of all of these how many ADD anything to the game over here. Going on what they have done or their potential. Some may prove me wrong as we have yet to see them but lmore than 50% add nothing to the game over here except keep young players out.

Bradford ,Kearney,
Cas Chase,
Cats Greenshields, Sa,
Crusaders , Witt, Sammut,
Harlequins Dorn, Randall,
Huddersfield O'Donnell, Fa'alogo, Faiumu
Hull FC Fitzgibbon, Manu,
Hull KR Mason, Vella, Dobson, Newton, Galea, Clinton
Leeds Webb, Leuluai, Buderas, Lauititi, Cross, Hauraki
Salford Cashmere,
Saints , Soliola, Perry, Puletua, Flannery
Wakefield
Warrington Hodgson, King, Monaghan, Monaghan,
Wigan Carmont, Richards, Leuluai, Lima, Hoffman, Finch, Roberts

41 players out of an original total of 95