At the moment we have only offered them a contract of employment with a clause being they must obtain a visa before the contract can be signed. We can at any time retract that offer of employment as no contract has been signed because they dont have a visa.
We cant be in breach of a contract as one hasnt been signed.
Also other clubs have spoken to Crocker with a view to his plan B. Clubs would strictly not be able to do this if he was under contract.

To get back to the point though If we need the cash for a quality no 7 we will probably need some of the the cash which is to be spent on these two to lure one to our club !

Top Scrum half needed.
New Centre.
New Full back.
Crocker and Lauaki.
That may do the trick.

New coaching staff. Fresh ideas needed, too much one man, up the middle boring rugby.

World class SH.

Top centre

Radford not to get played at lock.

Mark O'Meley - Subject to a visa

please,not preston campbell,watched him at the weekend and is pretty much the same as what we have got.

wouldnt mind titans no 8 though,he is class.

Preston Campbell is a good runner of the ball very fast, may not be the best creative player around but would still have him over Thorman without a doubt. There arn't alot of 7's out there at the minute who are available and are world class.

All this talk of Orford being available, well thats not likely to happen now as he is due to re sign with Manly.

Hmmmmmmmmmm!!



Could this be the reason, of the initial application being rejected??

Maybe Chris 28, could enlighten us,

if the employee has no valid contract, Would a visa application would be refused??.

IF the sole reason for rejection,was his previous misdemeanour,

Why re-apply again???

His teammate, Scott Prince is a better option.

prince = rovers

Unlikely as there must be some element of a contractual arrangement in order to get the work permit/certificate of sponsorship in the first place. After all I guess this is how all clubs have operated in the past and it's never been brought up before.

If the only reason for rejection was the misdemeanour, it could be outweighed by other factors, hence the reapplication with character references etc. A basic application (which is prob what happened first) prob didn't include extra evidence in support so the easy route was a refusal. Now there's a whole lot more to consider.

I had a quick chat to TS on Sunday and he said it's like trying to get blood out of a stone to get any sort of update. TBH I think the club should, if they haven't already, approach their local MP now. I think it's Allan Johnson, unless I'm sorely mistaken.

Thanks Chris.

Agree other than your use of the word lock!!