James Smailes seems to think Heremaia still counts on quota, so we need to get Obst off quota due to residency to get an Aussie or Kiwi.
Otherwise its more than likely to be Lauaki.

Surely heremaia has south sea island ancestry? Makes him non quota if he is

He can play for England, he once played in a back garden in Leigh!

hypocrites

all these years youve took the mickey and slagged Rovers off, now your as bad hahaha

are you referring to a solitary CC win??, or the dicking in the GF?

its a shame really, the franchise's IMO were meant to stop all the need for so many overseas players, no P/R meant you could bring youngsters through, but that hasnt happened at many clubs, unfortantly our 2 clubs havent grasped this notion.

I'm talking about the fact we reached more finals in a 4 year period (2005-200icon_cool.gif than all but 2 teams. It's definitely our most successful period for 2 decades. Depends how you define success I guess?

and I would say our O/S players were of a higher standard, a MUCH higher standard, in those years.

Hmm. Tony, Domic, McMenemy and Swain.. Swain fair enough, not sure about Tony, Domic and McMenemy. They certainly aren't of the standard Fitzgibbon, Berrigan or O'Meley. Moa has performed exceptionally while here too.

what a joke the quota is i blame wigan and kr they always fiddle the rules so the others have no choice but to follow

they should make it simple you can have 10 non euro born players but only 5 can be born in oz
no arguements then

But therein lies the problem. Example if Briscoe was born in Australia, but moved here when he was 5 he would then under those rules be classed as 1 of the 10 non EU born players yet say Meley was born in the UK but moved to Aus when he was 5 he would then be classed as non quota. Also why 10? I think 3-5 overseas players maximum is more than enough.