He certainly got a good licking off Radders

Newton's mother is English so therefor he's got an English passport, Lovegrove's family, apparently, trace back to Swindon so he's got English blood but the 'Homegrown' rule keeps him off the quota list if i'm not mistaken!!

Correct, the sooner these players retire/transfer, the better as that seems to be the bit that is confusing people!! The system is a good system and will show that in a few years when these players have filtered out!! Rovers just got very lucky in their recruitment drive timing to have gotten away with this!!

They've done nothing against the rules, it's just a question of their own morals and/or ambitions to promote youth!!

James Webster then

Jesus - they'll be playing for England soon, then.



Thought the Homegrown rule only applied to the Fed/non-Fed rule, surely it can't affect Quota?

Thought he was Off Quota now?

But presumably Non Fed Trained? as he joined us after 2008?

Once you get your fed trained status, you never lose it

You do if you got it under the "3 years at a club prior to being 21 and joining before 2008" exemption and then move clubs I think? Although tbh I've no idea how/if James Webster has that, or even if he is non fed.

My brains hurting just thinking about it at the moment.

Because this is RFL rules lol, any player who is, but would lose it., would have an ambulance chaser marching the RFL down to the Human Rights courts quicker than you could say slip,trip or fall

Has a british passport.

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'Their status as a federation trained will then apply throughout their career, even if they move clubs in the future.'

James Webster (and other EU/Kolpak 2008ers) would be free to play for you as non-quota and fed-trained - as he already has done in fact on one occasion.

Technically I think he should be fed-trained as a '2008er' but as long as he stays at Rovers he has a dispensation to be [uclub[/u-trained, which us helps with that rule. As you say he'd be off quota.