It might not be helping the development as they are taking up places but the experience these players can pass on is essential. All teams have several players that fall into this bracket but I don't think its a problem at this stage. If teams entirely consisted of players players like Anderson, etc then it would be a different matter.

As long as the ruling stands this way we will see teams utilising it.

You can't blame clubs for working within the rules, wether these rules, are to the benefit of the game and its development, are another matter.

As has been stated before, the problem with reducing it further is that they must comply with employment law and European law, so anyone with an EU passport has the right to seek work in the UK.

The (voluntarily agreed) non-fed trained thing is supposed to deal with that, but it's taking a while to work through because the players in the system before it was brought in are exempt to avoid employment law issues.

How come their NRL clubs don't want to them to remain and pass on their knowledge and skill st their own youngsters then?

I'm sure that Latu will do a wonderful job of mentoring young players at Salford and passing on some of his wisdom; good luck with that one!

I was under the impression that that the non federation trained exemptions were null and void once a player moved club, for example Feka and Bailey did not count against Wigans quota as they were recruited prior to the rule being introduced, but they would count against Salfords as they have moved whilst the rule is in place?

I think it was initially like that, but the threat of a potential legal challenge from exiting non quota imports who were already in the UK prior to Feb 08 forced the RFL to extend the ruling for the duration of the career in Sl.