I was doing the maths and dont Warrington have to lose an overseas player next year. Hodgson still has another year, Joel has just signed for three..... To me that means that King WILL be going back to Aus

yes, but they are all playing this year.... so why would we have to lose one?

is it such a bad thing? we are doing well without him, we have evans coming up and he gets better every week plus it free's up a visa spot which could come in handy plus with atkins also waiting in the wings there will be talent wasted as rhys williams is also a fairly talented player

Players come and go he will be a massive loss whenever he goes. It will free up a lot of the salary cap though.

because the quota is getting reduced each year to strengthen the british game.

So that's 12 foreign players at Hull KR next season.

okay, that makes sense then with regards to the other posts.

is it 1 spot decreased a year? or how is it being worked?

I think it is staying at 5 for some time now.

We have 5 with king (Solo doesn't count) and then we'll have four.

We can buy Blair. (Not that we need him)

I'd like King to stay, I think we'd struggle to get a better replacement. I'm not sure we've actually given him enough credit for his last 18 months with us, since about the CC QF in 2009, he's been immense.

He doesn't half take the burden of the forwards and he's improved his attacking threat both for himself and his winger tenfold.

Quote: THEOriginalWire "okay, that makes sense then with regards to the other posts. is it 1 spot decreased a year? or how is it being worked? According to Wikipedia (bad source I know but the RFL website is useless) there is only a plan for it up to next year: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quota_players where each club is allowed a maximum of 5 quota and 5 overseas trained - which is ridiculous because teams can still have 10 overseas players, how is that helping? It should just be 5 overseas no loopholes end of. Hopefully that will be the case after 2011.

Quote: THEOriginalWire "okay, that makes sense then with regards to the other posts. is it 1 spot decreased a year? or how is it being worked? According to Wikipedia (bad source I know but the RFL website is useless) there is only a plan for it up to next year: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quota_players where each club is allowed a maximum of 5 quota and 5 overseas trained - which is ridiculous because teams can still have 10 overseas players, how is that helping? It should just be 5 overseas no loopholes end of. Hopefully that will be the case after 2011.

Not sure where he'll fit into the team at present....

Monaghan, Bridge, Blythe, Evans.

speaking of which, did anyone else think that today was just more reason to keep blythe in the centre's rather than in the pack?

I'd have him back in a heartbeat.

I think I'd play him right centre, let him & Joel get a combination going, just pure raw power and have Bridge inside Evans for a bit of guile & craft.

it would be a very interesting prospect to see those two in full flow.