Quote Sheldon="Sheldon"Lovegrove (dob 11 March 1987) signed when he was 20 on the 30 June 2007.
Here's the rules on fed trained and club trained players.
www.superleague.co.uk/page/compe ... ucture/346
=#FF0000Club Trained Player
A Club Trained Player is one who has been on a club’s register for three full seasons before the end of the season in which he ceases to be eligible by age for Reserve Grade Rugby League.
Federation Trained Player
A Federation Trained Player is one who has been on the register of one or more member clubs in the same Rugby League Federation as the club he wishes to join (Great Britain for the majority, France in the case of players joining Catalan Dragons) for three full seasons before the end of the season in which he ceases to be eligible by age for Reserve Grade Rugby League.
If anyone has other links i'm happy to read them and be put right.'"
2011 tat
[i(a) ‘Club Trained Player’: a player who has been on the Club’s register for any 3 full Seasons
before the end of the Season in which he ceases to be eligible by age to play at Under 21
level. For the avoidance of doubt, where a player has satisfied the definition in each of the
2008 and 2009 Seasons and is on the Club’s register in both of those seasons, the Player
shall retain the status of ‘Club Trained Player’ in 2010 for so long as he remains on the
register of that Club but shall lose such status (unless he satisfies the full definition of 3
years) upon being removed from the Club’s register and shall not regain it simply by
returning to the Club’s register. Otherwise, and again for the avoidance of doubt, from the
2010 Season onwards a player must satisfy the requirement to have been on the Club’s
register for 3 full Seasons before being ineligible to play at Under 21 level in order to
qualify as a ‘Club Trained Player’ and the fact that he may have qualified as a ‘Club
Trained Player’ in the 2008 and/or 2009 Seasons shall be irrelevant.[/i
I'd guess he qualified under the 07/08 season (but not the full 07 season per the definition)
Hence maybe why he got the special dispensation to be allowed to have the 'club trained' whilst he's registered with us, despite not fully qualifiing in the 2007 season. (that's a complete guess by the way - I don't know or pretend to know)
He's not classed as overseas per his UK passport
([ia) An “overseas Player” is one who cannot produce satisfactory evidence to the RFL that he is a Professional Player in accordance with the EU Rules guaranteeing the free movement of workers and that either:
(i) he is an EU National; or
(ii) he is entitled to be lawfully employed in England as a professional rugby league player pursuant to a valid work permit and is a National of a country which is party to either an Association Agreement, Europe Agreement or the Cotonou Agreement with the EU; or
(iii) that he is a National of a country which is a current Full or Associate Member of the RLEF and has been resident in that country for four years and is a bona fide registered player who has played a minimum of five domestic league or cup games in a domestic competition in that Full or Associate Member’s country.[/i
[iFor the avoidance of doubt the fact that the individual holds and can produce a current passport of an EU member state or a country party to an Association Agreement, Europe Agreement or the Cotonou Agreement shall be considered satisfactory evidence of (i) or (ii) above.[/i
