Help explaine the tongan "off the quota" position please!
As in the willie mason situation getting a tongan passport so as to come off the quota as stated in the rugby press and HDM.
My question is why cant MOA and LAUAKI come off the F.C quota if they hold tongan passports?

I think because it might be bollox. They're non fed trained, as is Mason, surely.

Exactly it's total bollox, he'll still count as non-fed trained tongan passport or no tongan passport.

The Tongan passport could be to get around passport restrictions on knuckledraggers coming into the country.

With a Tongan passport under EEC regs they are exempt

So it might be easier to get him in, but under RFL regulations, surely he still counts as non fed trained and therefore on the quota, as Moa and Lauaki do?

Still doesnt class them as Fed trained though

You wouldn't be suggesting it could be a way round any potential visa issues are you?

So to quote the press "on the clubs instruction" mason was told to obtain a tongan passport for the purpose of "WHAT" ?

To just string their supporters along maybe !!!!

Hmm. Lima, Finch, Hoffman, O'Donnell, Ah Van, Herbert and Cross don't seem to have had any trouble.

I thought he was supposed to be here in November!!

I sincerely hope he comes sooner than later it is going to be great, I mean look how it worked out for Judas

...they could not cope with his ego how on earth they are going to cope with Mason's god only knows



On the playing side, well they signed the higest paid forward last year Joel what,s his name

.....opposition teams will do to Mason exactly what they did to Hame this year it is going to be very entertaining viewing

mason will go off in a strop if morgan sings out of tune

Is that a cryptic crossword clue?

a popular one to predict!!!

Could do with a Where's Wally Avatar sorry I mean Where's Wee Willie if anyone can make one.

Didn't Lauaki screw up his visa with the English language requirement because he used a Tongan passport rather than his NZ one (becaue NZ is an English speaking country).

If Mason is claiming to be Tongan and not Australian, he'd better remember to take an English test.....

not one of his better subjects that , may struggle haha

I do not see he has a problem with quota, surely KR had all that paperwork and a quota place available for him.

I think its the immigration rules we have now in place that are holding the job up if not stopping it from happening. By going to Tonga its gets around the probelm by using EEC regs on south seas islanders getting special immigration treatment under developement status.

If that is the case, then they may find that it doesn't work. It would depend on the reason for refusing a Visa in the first place - if that's what's happened of course.

www.rugbyleaguetoday.co.uk/big-w ... to-arrive/ See this is back in the news ! And still dont understand how hkr can be getting away with the blatant bending of the rules to get mason off the quota ? yet our tongans are on the quota ?

www.rugbyleaguetoday.co.uk/big-w ... to-arrive/ See this is back in the news ! And still dont understand how hkr can be getting away with the blatant bending of the rules to get mason off the quota ? yet our tongans are on the quota ?

Well according to [url=http://www.thisishullandeastriding.co.uk/sport/HULL-KR-RFL-happy-Mason-quota/article-3060965-detail/article.html[uthis[/u[/url Mason will be Federation trained!!!!

Well that's just driven a coach and horses through the RFL's quota regulations. It also means that we now have two overseas places available if we need to use them.

Ridiculous.

At least now we don't have to worry about understanding them - all those hours poring over the ever-changing fine print.

All I can think is that they've decided the NRL's double-your-money television deal for 2012(?) onwards and maybe the new tax regs, are going to render quotas moot.

Stunning volte face.

Who gives a flying f**K how and when Mason gets here, he's just another Red & White Donkey that needs knocking over when he gets in the way of our boys.

To be fair we only have a second hand quote from the HDM. The national papers arnt very reliable.

So we will just have to wait and see. (Does that mean we only have fitz and Ogre on Quota now if the reports are correct)

If this is the case then the RFL must of been threathen with some kind of lawsuit but somebody concerned as all clubs agree to try and self police this slightly unlawful proceedure.