The games played criteria does seem a bit foggy MB.I thought I'd have a quick look on Wikipedia to see if
he had any naughty boy issues previously but nothing on there.Wikipedia have also got him down as
playing forRovers

I've read the negative comments on the forums but for someone who has played over 70 nrl games and is only 24 years old he must have something about him. Playing in the most challenging position as well.

I maybe wrong but I’m sure I’d read somewhere that they’d got rid of the requirement for international games and NRL games due to it restricting the player pool, though they still had to be of a decent standard.

Who decides if they are of the relevant standard or not?

I seem to vaguely remember something along those lines. Like I said before even if you've played only a few games in the elite competition you should be able to qualify for a visa.

Fairly confident that Pele is joining us. Similar reason why I was confident Clifford was coming although I get the confusion with NRL experience / appearances.

I wonder when we are going to get a 6pm announcement.

Think a player had to have played games in the QLD Cup, NSW Cup to be adjudged a good enough standard if its what I seem to remember I read.

There is a couple of loop holes, not sure 100%, but one is having an EU passport such as Schinder, the other is to do with international appearances, that's how we got Lovodua a visa.

There is also an appearance criteria, not sure how many games that is though.

Think it has to he first team, Hola has played plenty of NSW games and still couldn't get a visa.

Most of Hola’s NRL games were in 2019 and 2020. If Wikipedia is correct - and something is definitely slightly out because the numbers don’t quite tally in different bits of his page, even aside from it saying he plays for Hull KR.

At least Pele looks to have played half a dozen NRL games this year.

Does an EU passport count for anything now? Zenon and Yaha were very limited in how long they could spend on loan with us and, completely different industry admittedly, but a lad where I work is having to quit to go and live in Italy with his Italian wife even though he could do the job remotely.