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Cheap stunt to sell season tickets? not that i'm cynical or anything.

Amazing that a French Union club seems to think the big ox can be turned into a centre? Bet they are fun to watch.

It was on Five Live this morning that the Toulon President had said that they were having problem keeping Gavin Henson under control. If they can't do that, how the hell will they control Mason?

Even that to55p0t, Stuart Barnes was saying just as much (re Henson), on SSN, yesterday

The whole thing has been a farce from the moment Mason said he wanted to come to this country. HKR have done themselves a lot of damage and Mason has simply shown himself to be the attention seeker that he's always been.

No disrespect to HKR, but it always looked a bit fishy (sorry) to me
Mason is a BIG RL name, and for him to go to Rovers made me scratch my head a bit
Rovers fans must be feeling very deflated (especially after today's unflattering scoreline)

Just found a quote re Willie on an Aussie site. 'A fool, who gives stupidity a bad name.'

Puts you in mind of that famous cricket sledging (from the crowd) to Phill Tuffnell, during an away Ashes tour

"Hey Tuffers, lend us ya brain...I'm building an idiot"

I can't believe there's a thread on Willie Mason and nobody has made some comment about how he'll terminate Stuart Fielden

I was hoping he'd stay long enough, for "part II", but it looks like he's chasing the euro, now

So is he an Aussie again?

Toulon have only got 2 games left, so if he does sign he's got plenty of time before next season to do something stupid.

Quick Willie the King of Tonga has just arrived at Westminster Abbey, get down there and get your passport sorted now

Just in fairness to Willie Mason here, has he actually been misbehaving or causing trouble when he was here?

I presume then that HKR will be selling tickets to watch Dobson train ?

sarky.

hello wasn't this all done a few years ago with Johns at warrington and a few others teams aswell !!!!!!

IIRC we de-registered an injured Graeme Appo to make space for Johns, but I don't think that Appo was likely to return at any stage of the play-offs.

Subsequently the salary cap rules were changed to prevent teams from capaitalising on short term deals, but in the case of Mason & Dobson the overseas quota rather than salary cap was the determining factor.

I suspect they'll look to change certain rules in the off season to prevent another fiasco.

I don't think its the originally de-registering that is the problem. The rules state that once a quota player has been deregistered, then he cannot be registered again that season.

That's why it's a joke, Hull KR always had the intention of registering him again at some point during this season. Is this not now an invitation for a club to have 6 proper quota players, and just rotate 5 out of those throughout the season!

Agreed. Normally I'm not one of these to stress about having lots of rules but the thing about de-registering and registering overseas players is a slippery slope. It has spoiled county cricket IMO. In the old days you had one overseas player per season and so the fans got to identity a player with their team, eg Lancashire had Wasim Akram for about ten years then it was Muralitharan. But in recent years I have lost track you have Chanderpaul, Sangakarra, Andrew Symonds, Ashwell Prince, they come over play a few games then go off to play internationals and the club brings in a new overseas player for a few weeks. It just feels like a rotating door of mercenaries.

But that's the thing, the rules didn't need changing. The rule is there that once a quota player has been deregistered, they can't be registered again that season. There's just a little loop hole that says unless they have RFL permission. Why the RFL gave permission is beyond me.

I can only think that the RFL was interested in the publicity gained from having him come to Super League. The way it's turned out makes them look incompetent though.

I'm pretty sure thats the dictionary definition of the RFL.