My money is on Mason playing for rovers again before the end of May.

I'd just like to lend my support to this. If you're not sure, err on the side of caution and use the other thread.

Surely Rovers can feel hard done to that the Tongan government has fallen through?

Possibly, but simple root cause analysis shows that all this stems from the incorrect judgement on Galea's Maltese passport. If Rovers had got that right, they would have either not signed Mason to start with, or offloaded another overseas player to accommodate him. All I'm saying is that of all the parties involved here, Rovers, governments, RFL etc, Mason has seemingly done everything asked of him and come out of it the wors, at least at present, as he is effectively being restrained from plying his trade despite being fit and willing to do so. Now, maybe he's not bothered whilst he's being paid, and maybe he'll go to Toulon for a whole pile of cash so will just enjoy the summer either here or in France or back home, who knows, but whilst some are a bit huffy about it and saying things like "If he doesn't want to play for us he can sod off", I think, despite people at one time thinking he was likely to create trouble for others, it's actually not panned out like that at the moment, anyway.

But that still doesn't mean you can post whatever you want the AUP still stands

In my line of business, I wouldn't accept your root cause analysis report. You have failed to probe deep enough when concluding incorrect judgement with Galea & the Maltese passport. Before concluding (aportioning blame?) further probing is required into what went wrong in his application. Without knowing that, it cannot be assumed that Rovers misjudged the situation.

Getting jittery mate?

No just a polite reminder

Ok. The scenario is that Willie will be impotent on the sidelines unless he is re-registered or goes to Toulon (for hopefully a decent transfer fee to make it all worthwhile).

I understand that Toulon need the good old Tongan passport for this to be worthwhile otherwise they'll use a valuable quota place that they can't afford. Still over to you then, Hudge, to make it happen?

Or, once he get's the passport ('cos that's still clearly paramount for either situation, KR or Toulon) - would it still be worth keeping him even if it means de-registering another?

If is passport arrives we wont need to de-register another.