Watkins' best performances at 1st grade level have probably been on the wing and Jones-Bishop's only appearance in 2009 was in that position. Watkins was even touted on here as deserving to keep the position at Donald's expence at one point last season by you.

Nice selective criteria there. The Super League criteria never mentions non England qualified players, and if it did Leeds would only have 6 and Wigan would have 8.

lauititi,donald,buderus,webb,kylie,delaney,eastwood

which of those 7 qualifies for england then?

genuine question

Kylie, she's an institution now in our country!

Leeds would have seven and Wigan eight.

It has to stop.

Good luck to Deacon. Hope he makes a good coach, we need some.

Eastwood, assuming he's got his British passport.

Agreed.

Then take Richards off the Wigan list.

Eastwood has already played for NZ, so you can't really say he is British qualified.

Does Richards have a British passport?

So has Harrison Hansen.

fair enough didnt realise he was a kolpak. although having played for nz its gonna be 2 years before he can switch allegiance to to england( and I havent heard anything to suggest he is going to) so its a bit of a stretch saying hes british qualified. non-fed trained at best.

I dont know whether he qualifies as a kolpak, but he was intending to apply for a British passport when he first signed for us, whether thats gone through or not after the visa foul up I dont know.
Anyway the British qualified is a bit misleading anyway since thats not what the SL criteria is.

Either way I think we can all agree there are too many foreign players in SL and that clubs need to improve their academies.

Somebody fed him, have you seen the size of the fella?

Pretty rich considering the bloke that's carried your pack for the last few years came through our academy, and was actually signed from a Leeds club, as Leeds couldn't realise the talent of the future GB captain

Richards does indeed hold a British passport, both of his parents are Irish.

Harrison Hansen has a British passport and has played for England.

Wouldn't he have an Irish passport then?

Northern Ireland I believe, although that's Irish in my eyes. He would qualify for GB&I either way just as Brian Carney did.

Maybe we didn't recognise his talent when he was a kid - he was a classic late developer - but when he was the best forward in the country you decided to treat him like cr@p and he came to us. I know which would be the biggest feckk up out of the two and it wasn't made by Leeds, don't you agree?

One of my best friends is a Bulls supporter. His daughter who is around 9 years old is apparently absolutely devastated that her favourite player has left. Yes, there have been tears and tantrums.

She also hates Orford already!

As a certain poster said on RA&B nows the time for the parent of any kid distraught by Deacs departure to now confirm there is no santa claus and the tooth fairy is fiction as it'd be a good day to bury bad news.

On this occasion I have a feeling that nothing will work for her! I was so close to getting her to become a Rhinos fan when she was young as well.

Totally, but we had him for his best seasin in 2003 so its not all bad

He obviously got sick of only being Champion for one year at a time.

Obviously, must have wanted to be captained by a real quality player aswell.