Same as every other sport - If you get cut, you have to wait for the transfer window to open - if you cannot commit why were you in the team in the first place? - Loosing your job or getting sick doesn't mean you have to change teams, it just means you will not attend and event or two.In a perfect world maybe Nick, but what about: players that were guests in Toulouse; players that get dropped from their team; players that cannot commit to the training a Div 1, or SPL team demands and wants to play a lower division or with a team that doesn't demand so much training; a player that looses his job temporarily; or a player that gets sick or injured; and so on.
Anyway - I completely agree with the rules except for those pertaining to 2nd teams - but in the situation at hand, where the rules have not been made public, they obviously should not apply.
Yet another reason for people to sign up for the IPPU
Nick