It does say the details will be produced later.

In a way some of the discussion is over the detail that has not been produced yet.

My only hope is that they take more time and do a better job than they did with the draft proposal. Calling the top 8 the playoff 8, confused quite a few people into thinking we were sticking with a top 8 playoff, were as later in the document it states a top 4 playoff.

Whilst I'm not for or anit the RFL. Producing documents that are clear about what they mean should be their basic requirement.

If one is, the potential is for others to aswell. You think if Fev and Leigh keep missing out on a place in SL to teams who have squads packed with Kolpak players they are going to limit themselves to a quota of 1?

It is impossible for the RFL and clubs to police a quota system because it is illegal, thats why it keeps getting challenged and the RFL capitulate.

So it's effectively a top 4 playoff.

1v4 and 2v3.

Sounds good.

Employment Law is about employment. Clubs can EMPLOY who they want, but I suggest the RFL gets QC's opinion on a potential RFL rule that says 13 of the 17 players named for any particular match must have been born in the EU.

If the opinion is that it's at least 50/50 that there would be an argument that this is a reasonable and proportionate way of achieving a legitimate aim (developing more European based players eligible to play for EU national representative RL teams) should there be a legal challenge, then I'd put in it place.

The FA, re socccer in this country, will apparently be going down this sort of route in the next few years, as a means of limiting the number of foreign players playing in the Premiership.

Whose questioned the quota? Also given it's done on qualifications now, which is used in a lot of industries (finance and medicine in particular) it's hard to declare it illegal.

that would be fine if not for the fact that things like the Kolpak ruling necessitate players from Kolpak nations being treated the same as those from the EU.

So we are talking Fiji,Samoa,Tonga, and yes I know that could include a sizeable number of NZ origin players, but it would certainly make it less attractive to chase them than the current situation

Pretty much all the Pac Isles nations, Fiji, Tonga, PNG, Samoa, or anyone who could get a passport for them. Plus the fact that large swathes of Australians and NZ'ers will qualify for a passport of one of these nations or one of the home nations.

We would be banning so very few it would be a mockery.

In that case set the allowable quota at zero, forcing all clubs to chase Kolpaks only, if as you say it wouldnt make much difference, why make it worse than it could be?

To give the weekly rounds more importance, and to reward who finishes top.

the top 8 should play home games againts every team that has finished below them in the league.

Whoever finishes 1st will play all home games, and 8th - none.
I know teams wouldnt agree but would give massive importance of finishing top

The non-fed trained rule seems to work doesn't it? Just reduce that to 3 over a few years, for both divisions.

Just make it 1 , as smokey has pointed out, clubs can easily cheat anyway, so make it as hard as possible for them, that is providing they will not voluntarilly agree to stick to a set number

But doesn't the Championship only have the Overseas Quota in effect and not the Fed Trained Rules?

The Overseas Quota is quite easy to get around with Kolpak players and many Australians having European ancestry.
The Fed Trained rules are much, much better.

Implement the Fed Trained Rules in the Championship too, set it at 3 for both leagues.

Only in the championship I believe his point was ... It seems to work very well in super league at the moment

Fine then 3 fed traied in SL, 1 fed trained in the Championship, but all matches between are played to Championship ( 1 ) rules

Problem solved, not hard is it?