Oh dear!!

so given a choice of fitzgibbon, omeley or mason you would go for the latter - oh dear

being a superstar a few years ago means nothing in this sport

Cheers bud,made my night.

Rugby union.

Continuing to help rugby league put its old buggers out to pasture.

Winner of the Andy Farrell Memorial trophy this year - early nomination Willy Mason (who last played well circa 2002).

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Fitzgibbon > Mason.

Ask any Aussie RL fan, or any British RL fan

Rovers fans are making Willie Mason out to be the bad guy here and I can't understand why. It was Rovers that signed him without having an clear overseas quota plan, while keeping their fans in the dark about it they then asked him to get a Tongan passport when that fell apart, which while he has not got one yet he attempted to do in good faith while Rovers lobbied the RFL in bad faith to get a dispensation to get Tongan's off the overseas quota that other clubs didn't get.

Then without his passport they told him to fly over and play, which he did, while they applied for another dispensation to deregister their best player, again in secrecy until just before his first game.

Pretty shabby treatment of their "biggest signing ever", all the time I have not heard a bad word out of his mouth about this and by all accounts until recently he has been fulfilling all of his community obligations in good grace for the club.

Then to top it all off the club stop paying him for what seems to be a very dubious reason. I certainly don't blame him for talking to another club, on his day off, about a plan B, if my employer turned out as shifty as his I would make sure I had an alternative lined up.

I think Rovers and their fans owe Willie a big apology.

That never happened.
Tongans aren't on the quota, so why would they lobby the RFL?
They ARE on the non-fed list, and they've never tried to get him off this (they can't). You've kinda made this bit up or crossed your wires a bit, but it it isn't true.

Any contract that tried to ban an employee from speaking to a potential new employer would be illegal under UK employment law. It's only the Operational Rules that would apply, and as we've already established they only cover speaking to other RL clubs.

In other words, Mason did absolutely nothing wrong.

treated like sh-t...really hope he sues em!!

Erm, if anything I think it's much more likely to be the other way round...

Think we are overstating big willies abilities quite a bit!!

He hasn't been that good for years.

Fitzgibon would be far the greater of the two players

Rovers gambled on Galea's and Webster's passports ,one that didn't come off. You win some , you lose some.

Mason says he hasn't been paid for months.

This could get nasty.