Championship Regulations 2019-20

Kimbo it's worse than that. Theoretically you can now play an entire season with only two of your own assets in the team! 

The Blues wrote: I thought (from memory a long time ago) Wales and the ANZAC countries didn't count as foreign?

 

Foreign Player is a person who does not qualify as a Non-Foreign Player.  A Non-Foreign Player is a person who, at the point that he is included in the Match Squad:
 
(a) can prove to the satisfaction of the RFU that he is entitled to the rights granted under Title IV, Article 45 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union (TFEU) or under the European Economic Area or of a state with which the European Community has entered into an agreement that includes directly effective provisions conferring equivalent rights of nondiscrimination against that state’s nationals within the European Union;
 
Note: A passport of a member state of the European Community will normally be accepted as evidence that a player is a European Player
 
(b) can prove to the satisfaction of the RFU that pursuant to World Rugby Regulation 8.1 he is eligible to play for the senior fifteen-a-side National Representative Team, the next senior fifteen-a-side National Representative Team or the senior National Representative Sevens Team (as defined in World Rugby regulations) of a Rugby Union in membership of the European Union/European Economic Area; or
 
(c) has been selected for the England Senior XV, Next Senior XV or U20 XV or England’s National VII.
 
Note: In the event of any governmental changes that impact this definition during the season, the status quo will prevail for the 2019-20 season

it's a permanent change for both league and cup.