Re: Harry Sieka : Thu Apr 30, 2015 12:17 pm  

We're actually one over aren't we?
We somehow managed to wangle Adam Henry off the quota. Exactly how we did that was never explained.

Re: Harry Sieka : Thu Apr 30, 2015 12:27 pm  

I suppose that really limits our options... if we truly are exploring options.

[Bulliac]

Re: Harry Sieka : Thu Apr 30, 2015 12:32 pm  

Nothus wrote:

We're actually one over aren't we?
We somehow managed to wangle Adam Henry off the quota. Exactly how we did that was never explained.

Not quite, he is on overseas quota but isn't on non-fed, so presumably first played the game in Europe, though I haven't a clue where that might have been.

We're bang on with 5 overseas and 7 non-fed.

Re: Harry Sieka : Thu Apr 30, 2015 12:34 pm  

Bulliac wrote:

Not quite, he is on overseas quota but isn't on non-fed, so presumably first played the game in Europe, though I haven't a clue where that might have been.

Forget about the overseas quota, it is redundant now.
He came through the NZ Warriors academy so I have no idea how he is classed as fed trained.

Re: Harry Sieka : Thu Apr 30, 2015 12:42 pm  

Nothus wrote:

We're actually one over aren't we?
We somehow managed to wangle Adam Henry off the quota. Exactly how we did that was never explained.

IIRC Henry got an exemption from overseas quota due to how young he was when he came over. Never was really clarified though. Afaik we don't have any spots free on either quota now.

[Bulliac]

Re: Harry Sieka : Thu Apr 30, 2015 12:45 pm  

No, it still applies 5 overseas and 7 non-fed is the current ruling.

Players can be on one or both quotas. You can be EC and/or Kolpak and still not be fed trained, eg Siejka, Uaisele and Ulugia, or as Henry shows overseas but is fed-trained.

[Bulliac]

Re: Harry Sieka : Thu Apr 30, 2015 12:49 pm  

mat wrote:

IIRC Henry got an exemption from overseas quota due to how young he was when he came over. Never was really clarified though. Afaik we don't have any spots free on either quota now.

Think you've got that back to front actually. Adam is on the overseas quota but not on the non-fed quota.

[Bulliac]

Re: Harry Sieka : Thu Apr 30, 2015 12:54 pm  

Just to clarify I believe this is our current list: 5 Overseas - Davies, Henry, lauaki, Mullaney and Purtell and the 7 non-fed are all the o/seas except Adam Henry, plus Siejka who is EC and Uaisele and Ulugia who are both Kolpaks.

Re: Harry Sieka : Thu Apr 30, 2015 1:48 pm  

The reason I said it was redundant is because it's too easy to circumnavigate. All it takes is some distant blood relative and a random passport and hey presto, you're off the quota. Just ask HKR from a few years ago.

This was the exact reason why the non fed quota was introduced, to stop teams from exploiting the loopholes in the overseas quota.

So yes, technically it is still there, but the key quota to pay attention to is the non-fed one, of which we had 8 until Henry pulled his exemption trick.

Re: Harry Sieka : Thu Apr 30, 2015 2:00 pm  

Bulliac wrote:

Just to clarify I believe this is our current list: 5 Overseas - Davies, Henry, lauaki, Mullaney and Purtell and the 7 non-fed are all the o/seas except Adam Henry, plus Siejka who is EC and Uaisele and Ulugia who are both Kolpaks.

that is correct, as emailed to me by Ryan Sparks so the squad list page OP listing gave the definitive status of each player re overseas etc. I think it was on the facebook page where it mentioned Henry as being exempt due to age.