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These rules are getting daft i can understand someone getting stoped for alleged assult but a driving ban seems a bit 2 far.

Every cloud has a silver lining.

Daft. But if it means less imports in Super League I'm all up for it.

It makes you wonder what the driving conviction was, but on the face of it I can't see why he would have been refused.

True but if someone of real quality comes available mid season then we'll be last in the pecking order again.

Bradford
Leeds
Hull

All have loads more money than us.

Eastwood qualifies for a British passport - he just was waiting for his new documents - had he travelled on his NZ documents he could already have been here.

Seems an odd one.

I bet a spanish or brazilian footballer with a driving conviction wouldnt have been refused

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For the better of the British game I am all for it and I wish they would have caught some of our overseas players before we signed them...

I'd be happy if I was a Leeds fan. Another average plodder trying to earn some easy money by coming over here.

Spanish footballers can enter the UK without a visa to work

But you get my point

I think all these refusals are a blessing in disguise. Maybe not to the teams concerned but to the competition as a whole, at least the teams affected can actually utilize fully thier academy players and give them a chance. Of course on the other side of the coin, the competition is missing out on world class players but at least the clubs have a chance to actually produce thier own world class players.