I’d say the brain dead ones are the ones who fail to consider overseas players when allowing salary cap dispensation. Amateur.

It's far from a brain dead pile on. It shouldn't be beyond the wit of the RFL to consider the OQ situation at the same time as the cap when drafting regs. Occurrences may be rare, but clearly have been considered likely enough to draft the cap dispensation rule. If it hasn't been considered that this may apply to an OQ player, and therefore the impact on said OQ then yes, it is amateur.

Did you think of it when the first occuronce happened? It's only fairly recent that I can think of it happening, within the last couple of years as far as i know. If you thought of it did you say " what about quota players? why haven't they made provisions?"
If not, why not?

fair enough that nobody considered it, but why it's taking so long is amateurish.

My point is, regardless of how frequently it has actually happened, the RFL has a policy to cover the cap aspect. But that policy doesn't address the OQ implications. So no one thought "what if the player involved is on the OQ?". I find that staggering, don't you? And yes, I did think how does it impact our quota spots, but didn't fret as I assumed (wrongly, as it turns out) the the RFL policy would provide clarity.

Only reason I can think of is that they might need the clubs to approve it. No idea if that's right though

Maybe they need to consult with lawyers, and that's never a quick process

It very possibly needs other club approval, most things in SL do. It may also be tied in with the RFL's agreements with the home office over quotas and visas. But nah I'm sure it's just incompetence.

I wouldn’t want to employ you with the reactive rather than proactive mindset. I don’t think it takes a genius to consider when giving salary cap dispensation’s for players injured in pre-season what to do in scenarios where the player is on the quota but clearly thats just me.

The lack of competence isn’t around anything to do with other clubs or the government, it’s around how something that is relatively obvious can be missed in the first place. When RFL were thinking about rules around excluding players from the cap, it’s at best negligent of them not to consider the impact on different categories of player that could be affected.