If you 'd have asked that same question 30 years ago you would have been pretty close regarding part two and three of the question (except, small tache and van dyk plus capri), however i was never into bikes or the apparel, i was more of a trendy seventies dresser ( flared trousers with big waist bands and 4"heeled shoes plus the long hair of course).
I hope my answer and portrayed image of yesteryear is to your satisfaction dear sir.

Groooovy!

Loving the shoes, I do hope that the trousers were beige and accompanied by a jacket with enormous lapels.



Roverswall is going to make me go on the naughty step for this.

Nah, lapels are to small, hair was much longer and i was far better looking. oh and you forgot the little van dyke.

One important point you neglect is that the assurances were not [ijust[/i from Rovers. Tonga has not found the transition towards democracy straight-forward, apparently.

Now we put ourselves at the mercy of an overseas government, so I'm not expecting any sympathy or indeed patience. I don't expect the rules to be interpreted generously (again) - but I do expect them to be interpeted fairly. The passport's no-show was beyond the club's control and despite assurances it would arrive. The fact it was needed at all is, with hindsight, a problem of our creation, but the RFL does not strike me as a vindictive organisation.

It is an administrative issue - Rovers need to find out what the positions of the RFL, WM and, as best they can, Tongan government are and act accordingly. There are whole spectrum of possibilities - fair enough I'm lining up some of the positive scenarios, but they seem no less realistic than the negative HDM orthodoxy (which seems to have changed, despite remaining resolutely gloomy, from 'he's gone', to 'he's staying, but can't be re-registered'... 'possibly...', 'we understand...').

The statement issued by the RFL upon Dobson re-registering specifically states that Mason would require the full support of the RFL board to be re-registered even [iwith[/i a Tongan passport. Granted their record of sticking to what they put out in their statements isn't exactly stellar...

Fair? You talk of fair? How fair to the rest of SL was this unashamed attempt to get an extra quota player on the books and hang the consequences?

The passport's no-show was beyond the club's control but the cynical decision to proceed anyway without it was purely within Hudge's control.

The RFL probably aren't vindictive but they are afraid of ridicule and embarrassment. They are the epitome of inconsistency as well. All I am saying is that it's my bet that Rovers' stock with them at the moment is about as valuable as that of a chicken carcass boiled for half a day to make potato soup.