Re: 2018 Bradford Bulls : Tue Nov 21, 2017 11:58 am  

After the Toovey visa fiasco last year, I bet that if there are any overseas players to come the club will wait until they have their visas confirmed.

I count our first team squad as 23 players at the moment so there must be a few more to come surely.

From what I saw of Layoun (Lebanon) or Amean (PNG), if we are in the market for a full back either of those would do nicely. I’d like Smith, Gibson and Oakes to be battling it out for a centre spot.

[Bullseye]

Re: 2018 Bradford Bulls : Tue Nov 21, 2017 12:07 pm  

psychostring wrote:

After the Toovey visa fiasco last year, I bet that if there are any overseas players to come the club will wait until they have their visas confirmed.

I count our first team squad as 23 players at the moment so there must be a few more to come surely.

From what I saw of Layoun (Lebanon) or Amean (PNG), if we are in the market for a full back either of those would do nicely. I’d like Smith, Gibson and Oakes to be battling it out for a centre spot.

Good point about the visas. However it shouldn't take as long this time as the club is on the right lists with the Home Office and isn't applying to be allowed to appoint overseas staff. I suspect if other clubs start announcing signings from the WC we shouldn't be far behind if we're doing the same.

Re: 2018 Bradford Bulls : Tue Nov 21, 2017 7:25 pm  

psychostring wrote:

After the Toovey visa fiasco last year, I bet that if there are any overseas players to come the club will wait until they have their visas confirmed.

Not to mention the easily forgotten Phoenix Hunapo-Whateverhisnamewas

Re: 2018 Bradford Bulls : Wed Nov 22, 2017 1:15 pm  

I had forgotten all about the situation with Phoenix!

Another very good example of why keeping quiet until Visa’s are sorted is for the best.

As said by Bullseye, at least this time we only have to wait for the Visa itself and not for the club to be approved to hire foreign employees.

Do any of our current players count on the quota? Only one I can think of that might is Chisholm but not sure.

[Bulliac]

Re: 2018 Bradford Bulls : Wed Nov 22, 2017 5:36 pm  

psychostring wrote:

I had forgotten all about the situation with Phoenix!

Another very good example of why keeping quiet until Visa’s are sorted is for the best.

As said by Bullseye, at least this time we only have to wait for the Visa itself and not for the club to be approved to hire foreign employees.

Do any of our current players count on the quota? Only one I can think of that might is Chisholm but not sure.

Pretty sure Chissy, despite being brought up in Aussie, has at least one british, or other EU, parent.

Re: 2018 Bradford Bulls : Wed Nov 22, 2017 7:04 pm  

Bulliac wrote:

Pretty sure Chissy, despite being brought up in Aussie, has at least one british, or other EU, parent.

Chisholms mothers French IIRC. he's played for France against England Knights.

Re: 2018 Bradford Bulls : Thu Nov 23, 2017 9:00 am  

Come on guys, how can we still be having this discussion. The nationality of a player became irrelevant years ago when they brought in the federation trained quota.
That's all you need to worry about, forget about what passports they hold.

[Bullseye]

Re: 2018 Bradford Bulls : Thu Nov 23, 2017 9:28 am  

Don't think that's quite right Nothus.

[Bulliac]

Re: 2018 Bradford Bulls : Thu Nov 23, 2017 9:54 am  

No, the point was really about visas rather than national eligibility. Something which may be important again though, in a few years, unless current thinking in government can be changed for the better.

Re: 2018 Bradford Bulls : Thu Nov 23, 2017 10:27 am  

Bullseye wrote:

Don't think that's quite right Nothus.

In terms of quotas it is.