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It clearly isn't the ONLY way. Balancing a decent coach with quality players, playing as a team (regardless of where they're from), with a decent game plan is the way to GF success

Interesting point this one. Wigan won the grand final last year with 5 overseas players but could potentially win it this year with 8, if you count Amos Roberts. I agree totally that it is short term thinking, although I don't see any young Sam Tomkins waiting in the wings for us.

indeed, not Phelps, Lauaki or Chase.

phelps is rovers bound

if we hadn't signed a specialist (injury prone, elderly) fullback then I'd have been more than happy to keep Phelps, but we just can't afford the luxury of a quota spot on a "utility" player.

Which oversea's player are Rovers releasing?

Now French women.....

The report in the HDM suggests he has come off non-fed rather than quota. While anything that the RFL approves is clearly not breaking the rules, this is not, as I understand it, in line with their previous definitions. Of course there is the discretionary case-by-case exemptions get out to cover these, to which we are no strangers - and for which we got ever so much grief.

Hull Kingston Australians and all that. I was thinking Hull F[sizeoreign[/size C[sizeontingent[/size, might work well.



Clinton not taking his option would be the most likely way we could make space for Phelps. Seems a bit of an odd way to 'spend' a quota spot to me, but if we aren't looking to bring in anyone from the NRL... all things considered I'd have Phelps ahead of Tony, on a par with Halley/Blaymire, but behind Lee Smith.