Hed of been required to have played for a club for 3 years to be fed trained, and Im not sure he did by 21? He returned to Canberra during that time as well iirc?

EDIT: correction, he can move between 2 clubs, so it doesnt need to be at 1 club, however, the time between registration between the 2 federation clubs must be no more than an offseason for him to qualify as federation trained. Since dobson played for Raiders between Wigan and Hull kr, he doesnt qualify as he didnt play 3 full seasons consecutively.

Interestingly, this means if a player gets injured at the age of 19, gets released by his club, spends a year in rehab, before signing on for another club, hed technically not qualify as federation trained, and thus be non-fed, regardless. Id imagine thered be a appeals process for that situation though...

It wasn't the fact that he has been granted compassionate leave, I was referring to when all we had was ''He's been released.' I'm like others in that once we found out it was for compassionate reasons that's all that needs saying. I think maybe I've got my knickers in a twist, or misread.

Reading back again, it does seem I've misread. It pays to not speed through threads I suppose.

To be fair, you're wasting your time doing anything else with 99% of the nonsense posted on here.

after the club says compassionate grounds there ends any rights to info for fans. He hasn't been released, you have no right to pry.

Blimey, talk about making a mountain out of a molehill. It doesn't take much to get some people riled!

Big Brother Sam Rapira had last week off footy as well.

NZwarriors really missed Sam, our finals chances are in tatters.

Losing Sam was costly.

Lifes about more than Footy hey.