Stand-Offish wrote:
Right the rule is ....
Play 3 games to have a choice ... one club ot the other and carry on playing.
Play 8 and flit between the two clubs and carry on.
C1:2:6
Subject to the other provisions of this Operational Rule, once a Player has played for any Club in any Competition (other than the Reserve Team Programme of Matches) after the end of the Super League or Championship Regular Season (or after Round1 of the League 1 Super 8s and League 1 Shield), whether that be the Club with whom he is registered, the Club he is Dual Registered to or the Club to which he is on Loan, he shall only be able to play for that Club for the remainder of the Season and shall not be entitled to play for any other Club in any Competition (other than the Reserve Team Programme of Matches)
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The above provision shall not apply to Dual Registered Players who have played 8 or more Matches for theirDual Registered Club
before: (i) in the case of Championship Clubs, the end of the Regular Season; and (ii) in the case of League 1 Clubs, the completion of Round
1 of the League 1 Super 8s or League 1 Shield, who shall be entitled to continue to play for the Club to which they are registered and the Club to which they are Dual Registered after the above date.Some of the text I copied from the RFL rules hadn't pasted as it should have done. Sorry about that. The above is now accurate.
As S/O says, the 8 match rule suggests a player can flit from DR to playing for their parent club. It does look as though anyone from the parent club CAN still play on DR without any qualifying game requirements (after Round 1 of the Super8s) but doing so means they can't play for their parent club again.
In effect, it means there is no Transfer Deadline for DR. Just the consequence that the player cannot play for their parent club again. I'm not sure I like the sound of that.
Does everyone else interpret the rules this way?