Quote ="Saint Simon"For me he's not worth a quota spot. They should be for player like TP, Soliola, Perry etc, not your (slightly above) average grafting second rower. The fact we got rid of Glimour and got him is comical to me'"
Can we just clarify getting rid of Flannery would not change anything in regards to bringing in another player.
Flannery is under the old quota system as is meli. The quota system no longer exsists except for those signed under it in years gone by.
The rules now are non-fed and federation trained.
You can have 5 non-fed players ( we already have 5 non-fed players for next year)
TP
Soliola
Perry
Laffranchi
Lance
Quota players are exempt from this list, but you can't sign new quota players, just let the old ones be exempt from the new rules.
So we have Meli and Flannery. If we got rid of Flannery, we could only either replace from within Saints, from another UK player or from a quota player from another team and these are reducing fast. The only one I can think who maybe up for grabs would be Steve Menzies from Le catalan.
Personally I'd keep Flannery and sign menzies if we could as I just don't think Dixon, AShurst and Megennis have stepped up enough to turf out Flannery yet. I would not go so far as to say they will never make it, especially as Megenis has only had 1 year, but no point throwing out Flannery at the moment IMHO.
