I was quite impressed with Hepi's aggression at warrington and against wigan needs to be a tiny bit smarter with his off loads im sure sandy will sort that.Ive been looking for a bit of info on him but he does not have a wiki page. Does anyone know if he was born in the uk ,will he be fed trained does he need to be with rovers 3 years to be classed a club trained? The best i could find on the net ,hes a 27 year old teenage winger mickey paea style second row? allgoldsrugby.com/player/tyla-hepi/ www.loverugbyleague.com/stats/players/Tyla-Hepi/

I was quite impressed with Hepi's aggression at warrington and against wigan needs to be a tiny bit smarter with his off loads im sure sandy will sort that.Ive been looking for a bit of info on him but he does not have a wiki page. Does anyone know if he was born in the uk ,will he be fed trained does he need to be with rovers 3 years to be classed a club trained? The best i could find on the net ,hes a 27 year old teenage winger mickey paea style second row? allgoldsrugby.com/player/tyla-hepi/ www.loverugbyleague.com/stats/players/Tyla-Hepi/

His dad is called brad and he's been playing for Gloucester all golds all season

im sure brad is coaching the all golds.

And playing for them as well at 45

Check again Bobness.

So if we go on what your saying Jacob Miller would be a home-grown player for FC, don't think so.

Not really the same thing hepi hadn't played pro anywhere I think he might have played a bit of junior rugby in new Zealand

Go easy on Bobness guys, he didn't use the "fact"word....

It's 3 years before 21st birthday mate. You are correct that it is age over nationality though.

That was certainly right until recently and still might be.

However, I have seen a couple of hints (nothing official), that the 'Rhys Lovegrove dispensation' might have gone universal, giving us a 'club trained while with club' sub-category.

In some ways this makes sense - to be making it harder for young unproven players like Laurence Pearce or George Griffin (maybe Jamie Shaul?) to get a chance, when a lack of talent is being at least partly blamed for needing to cut to 12 SL clubs would be a bit daft.

But it would certainly be a big shift, as the restrictive approach was meant in large part to focus clubs' minds on their own academies. If clubs can routinely get 19 or 20 year olds in from outside the club or even country to make up their club-trained numbers, that'd be more... flexible. A tacit admission perhaps that the non-fed rule was predicated on inaccurate assumptions about how much domestic talent was going to waste, but without having to say it openly.

Hepi spent a few years in the UK when he was a youngster, I taught him at David Lister when he was 13, not sure if that helps or not?

Looked a cracking player even at that age.

Hepi joined us at the start of last season and is only just 20. He'll meet the criteria for club-trained, irrespective of any possible changes, I'm pretty sure.

It doesn't appear to have helped Tyla a whole lot...

'Club Trained' if a player has or will have 3 full seasons prior to turning 21. (club trained sometimes referred to as homegrown.)

'Club Trained Whilst There' status if you join prior to age 21 but don't get the 3 years in.

Both 'club trained' & 'club trained whilst there' count in respect of the requirement for 8 club trained players in the 25 man squad.

Josh Hodgson is 'club trained whilst there' for us as an example. Think he was 20 when he joined us.

Also Rhys Lovegrove who is Australian counts as 'club trained whilst there' as does George Griffin. Both joined the club prior to turning 21 but without the possibility of accumulating 3 years.

Don't know how old Tyla Hepi was when he joined us but he was certainly under 21 and will definitely count as either club trained or club trained whilst there. It really doesn't matter where he was born or where he played his rugby beforehand.