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Matty_HullFC wrote:Wrap it up how you want, they have more overseas players than everyone else and are therefore playing outside the rules of everyone else.
This in their THIRD season of SL
Every other club has the same opportunity to sign overseas players as Rovers, with the exception of Lovegrove. That's the only 'dodgy' dispensation IMO.
Although the case of Stanley Gene kicked off the non-fed to fed exemption, it was not done as a favour to Rovers. It was done because it highlighted a possible case for legal action by players who had been here before the overseas quota rules were introduced and could argue that it was a restraint of trade.
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Kosh wrote:Every other club has the same opportunity to sign overseas players as Rovers, with the exception of Lovegrove. That's the only 'dodgy' dispensation IMO.
My point is that, with the Lovegrove signing, they are playing outside the rules of every other club, as I can't think of any club who have had a similar ruling.
Jeez it was only a response to someone trolling my trolling
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Wellsy13 wrote:To us REAL fans, there's no better feeling than winning competitions. Getting to a final is next. Then a top 6 finish or semi-final appearance. Then I suppose the derby counts as the most important league fixture.
Us real fans don't look over our shoulder at our neighbours and do whatever we can to get one over on them. We look at the bigger picture. And this is the reason why Rovers are and will forever be considered a small club. Because their fans and board would rather get one over on Hull FC above anything else.
Quite sad, really!
SPOT ON!
A Hull KR fan about Billy Slater:
blakeysrobin wrote:Three times as much as Briscoe, yet three times poorer as a fullback
Gordon Gekko wrote:Have Rovers been fined or docked points for playing these players 'outside the rules' ??
Back to this again?Sso are you saying that the sign of whether you've done something wrong/right is being fined/docked points? Are you saying everything that every club has done in the past outside the rules has resulted in a fine/a docking of points?
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Wellsy13 wrote:To us REAL fans, there's no better feeling than winning competitions. Getting to a final is next. Then a top 6 finish or semi-final appearance. Then I suppose the derby counts as the most important league fixture.
Us real fans don't look over our shoulder at our neighbours and do whatever we can to get one over on them. We look at the bigger picture. And this is the reason why Rovers are and will forever be considered a small club. Because their fans and board would rather get one over on Hull FC above anything else.
Quite sad, really!
SPOT ON!
A Hull KR fan about Billy Slater:
blakeysrobin wrote:Three times as much as Briscoe, yet three times poorer as a fullback
Alphabetti Spaghetti Go! wrote:So, are you saying that Rovers have more overseas players than any other club?
No, I'm saying that in response to this comment:
clockwork mouse wrote:Don't know what could have happened if we'd played outside the rules of competitions
You do play outside the rules of the competition of Super League by having more overseas players than the rules allow.
HULL FC and LEEDSUNITED fan
Wellsy13 wrote:To us REAL fans, there's no better feeling than winning competitions. Getting to a final is next. Then a top 6 finish or semi-final appearance. Then I suppose the derby counts as the most important league fixture.
Us real fans don't look over our shoulder at our neighbours and do whatever we can to get one over on them. We look at the bigger picture. And this is the reason why Rovers are and will forever be considered a small club. Because their fans and board would rather get one over on Hull FC above anything else.
Quite sad, really!
SPOT ON!
A Hull KR fan about Billy Slater:
blakeysrobin wrote:Three times as much as Briscoe, yet three times poorer as a fullback
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Matty_HullFC wrote:No, I'm saying that in response to this comment:
You do play outside the rules of the competition of Super League by having more overseas players than the rules allow.
Perhaps we can agree that Rhys Lovegrove's presence in our squad, means that Rovers are currently taking advantage of an exception that has been made in the rules, rather than breaking them?
It isn't even a particular exceptional exception - other clubs have (I'm thinking of one in particular here ) and in a couple of cases still maybe do (Catalans? Celtic?) play(ed) 'outside of the rules'.
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) and in a couple of cases still maybe do (Catalans? Celtic?) play(ed) 'outside of the rules'.
