Very interesting, admittedly most of my knowledge on the equality act comes from dealing with acting and theatre production - theres a lot more flexibility in those exceptions and wrongly assumed that was the same

I suppose if I had enough time and research I could start to build a case on the principle (a) of your quoted section by providing evidence that a competitor aged x and up are at a higher risk at injury which in turn would lead to a player aged x is less able to fulfil his role within rugby league ... but thats going down a road that just wouldnt be worth the energy of a forum!

I'm so glad i'm not the only one that thought that, whilst reading this exchange.

Whatever our policy on employing over 30s, I still doubt we'd go for Paul Gallen in 2017.

Turning into the Virtual Terrace, this forum.....

I'm confused....are you Matron?

He has a point mind you.

We couldn't afford Paul Gallen. It's not so much the up front salary, but the hidden extras such as guide dog, incontinence pants, and grab rails in the showers.

He could house share with you and Rico

I may well be grasping the wrong end of the stick, but I would have thought that there would be no problem at all with a Club having a policy of not signing anyone over the age of 31.

As long as they didn't go public with that policy

So after reading the last three pages... are we getting Gallen then?

if he signs for catalans dragons, will he be forced to change his name to Paul 4.54609 litres?

taxi....!

which firm though, duckie?