It appears its because of the delay in obtaining the Passport. Red tape appears to be the culprit this time.

On the subject of the delay. Virtually a year after application is a hell of a long time to wait.

Oh joy, more misery for the fans!

Looking at the squad next season, Stosic would be a shoe in every week for me.

Who’s decided that he’s the one to go, before the likes of B.J, T.L.L & Korki?

Coming off the back of the Tax debacle, Brough’s will he / won’t he extend & J.K’s named mentioned to coach the national team, I’m getting really cheesed off.

If this is the case (and at the mo it's only hearsay) then the club should have waited for his passport to be approved before signing anymore oversea's players

Can the club not employ him in some other way until his passport is approved? Not sure if possible or allowed? But if he's been waiting a year already, then surely it can't be far away

like I said earlier what was he counted as last year? I thought he came off the quota but if he hasn't got this passport how can he have. Surely there's some sort of clarification whether he's been accepted or not and this could
be proven to the rfl. My only thinking is there isn't!!

Surely with korki only on loan he should really be the one to go imo, (or is he not quota as greek) if not then one of the new signings should go

Stosic Massive loss

Well done club, red tape no red tape poor mis-management too many aussies and already light upfront deary me

people seem very quick to jump on the club on this one. whilst it might seem that they have been negligent on the face of it we do not know the ins and outs if this is indeed true (no reason to doubt it) and so should give em some slack until more info is forthcoming imo.
if it was as simple as binning off someone else instead i'm sure they would of done, if its his status thats the problem they were probably unable to do this

I suppose when you’re bending regulations to the limit chances are you will get caught out at some stage. Seems the club have be so this time. All the other overseas players must not have any problems with the documents so they have no reason to leave and the club would not doubt be challenged in the courts if they were to offload a player on those terms.

I’m glad the overseas contingent has been reduced but sad that it is Stosic who will be making way when Jeffries is in the squad.

Looking at it another way, his wage will prove very useful come January.

It needs to become usefull now if true. Losing probably your best prop were now down one. Needs replacing asap so they've got time to gel

I was think more long term.

I'll hold my hands up, when I first found out about this I jumped in feet first and put it all down to the club (probably due to some of the many shambles we've had over the years, admittedly we are improving vastly now). Having spoken to James he cannot have speak highly enough about the club and they have done their utmost to help him. It seems it is his status that is the underlying problem here so the club and James are behind the 8 ball so to speak.

true, just seems devastating losing the cornerstone of a good pack and leaving it short

If this is true then that leaves us a little light in the front row.
We will have Moore, Tronc, Korky and Bibb, with Russ Spiers from the academy who I guess won't play too many games.
The problem that we have this year is that none of our back rowers are the type of player who can cover prop like Steve Snitch and Olly Wilkes could.

Is the rumoured loan signing of Ben Davies from Wigan more than just a rumour? If so, this could be the answer!

We will be going from a prop/2nd row line up of...(start of last season)

Moore/Wilkes/Stos/Bibey/Scully/Bibb/Pitts.....
Snitch/Hendo/Winterstein/Fergy..................

To

Korki/Tronc/Moore/Bibb............(poss Spiers/Trout academy)
Fergy/Hendo/Morrison......poss Johnson...........

I am the biggest optamist about when it comes to Wakey, but this looks like a big prob to me, and did before I read this about James.

Hope JK has a rabbitt in the hat

**have i missed anyone?**

im sure we can find some better british talent that stosic.

im still flabergasted that wakey havent taken a punt on young rhodes at stanley, dodgy facial hair i know but come on kear!!!!

Top marks for optimism sunstroke