Can you have 2 overseas marquee players and one homegrown.

So if we had Abdul, we could have 2 overseas players as marquee players.

Quote: Dave K. "Can you have 2 overseas marquee players and one homegrown. So if we had Abdul, we could have 2 overseas players as marquee players.'" Found the answer, yes you can https://www.rugby-league.com/article/61 ... s-for-2024

Quote: Dave K. "Can you have 2 overseas marquee players and one homegrown. So if we had Abdul, we could have 2 overseas players as marquee players.'" Found the answer, yes you can https://www.rugby-league.com/article/61 ... s-for-2024

I might be wrong but i'm sure that AP said in his Humberside interview that we have 'almost a fifth' of our cap was on the sidelines in Trueman and Carlos, going off the £2.3 Million which AP has quoted, that would mean both are roughly earning £200K a year.

The way I read the rules is that you can only have three marquee players if at least one is federation trained. I don't really understand the whole federation thing so if someone can explain that to me I would be grateful. Does Trueman class a federation trained for example or are we talking overseas signings as federation trained players, in which case is Asiata our federation trained player?

Where has it even come from that Abdull would be a marquee signing?

Basically played junior/academy rugby in UK or France.
makes you fed trained. Any player that is non quota.

The Abdull Marquee thing is just a way to give us more cap to sign another player.

Thank you. So it sounds to me like we may have decided to list Trueman as a marquee signing when previously he was just part of the normal salary cap in order to get two more marquee players in.

French played 47 NRL games in 2 seasons and scored 35 try’s, you could argue that he was a fringe player but there’s levels to it. There’s no way any club is going to bring in the real top NRL spine players or centres in their peak, but in recent seasons players like French, Levi, Sezer, Hastings, Marsters, Lam, Hurrell, Naiqama and Lolohea have all come over with decent first grade records and experience. Can’t see us being in for these quality of players now, we’ll be looking at reserve graders. Not saying it’s impossible to find gems in the lower grades, but as we’ve seen it’s not easy either.

3 seasons and the last season he didn't play a game, was playing NSW cup, but I get your point, Ockunbor played 17 times last season.

But you are right you can find gems there, just hope we we can find 3 (centre, hooker and backrower) the standard of some of those players you mentioned above.

The issue we'll have if we find a couple of good players, is holding on to them, Clifford being the latest example. The knock on effect of being a poor performing club for years is that they stand out like a sore thumb and either get enticed away by a better domestic club or back home to have another crack at the NRL. It's one of the many reasons why allowing the club to get into such a terrible state is absolutely criminal. Creating an ethos of continuous development and improvement becomes doubly difficult.

I’m just disappointed because I think if we put a lot of our resources and a bit of due diligence in signing an overseas 7, 9 and a centre we could have come up with players of the quality of Clifford in these positions and give us a real chance. The potential signings of Hardaker, Adbull and possibly O’Connor (I know you said that’s not happening but there’s a lot of talk) in these positions are uninspiring and any other additions in these positions are only going to be project signings now at best.

He's says a lot of things which often make no sense. I think he meant that in total we had a fifth of our salary cap out.

The target for next year has to be (however unlikely) is being in with contention of the last play-off spots.

To achieve that we have to re-populate the squad with better then those clubs immediately above us.

Our "recruited" players for next year are Briscoe, Hardaker, Holmes, Aydin. This so far is 75% of next seasons recruitment. I mean absolutely no disrespect, but not one of those signings pitches us above any of the lower teams we are competing with.

I make a strong exception with Asiati. When he was signed i was very much "we mean business"

If it was a night out it's like i started on champagne and i've been ushered onto Lambrini.

Reasonably confident the next signings announced will be more encouraging. Blind faith, mind.

If we were genuinely looking at O'connor then it probably tells you where we are In terms of thinking and budget for a hooker. Big mistake imo and the lack of a top quality hooker has been one of our big failings in recent years.

Presumably if we sign Abdul we'd also have to pay the dobbins a fee on top of his salary