New Zealand have poached more players than anybody, yet everyone seems to accept that. They have 5 players in their squad go we're born in aus, one who qualified cause he played for the warriors for 3 years after playing for qld, one go switched to Samoa last year and has Samoan parents, one whose mother is indigenous Australian! Nobody seems to bag the kiwis!

Oh you mean tony Williams, who was born in Sydney and only played for tonga in the world cup, a couple of weeks after playing for the junior kangaroos against tonga, knowing he could change allegiances when he was good enough to play for his country?

True but NZ don't have anywhere near the number of players to choose from as Australia. Something like 80% of players in the NRL are Australian. NZ needs to boost its ranks occasionally, Aus doesn't. This decision is all about NSWRL and SOO, sadly NZ are the team that lose out to benefit NSW. Shame that state is seen as a bigger thing than country in Australian RL.

I don't think anyone would mind if Tamou had just decided he wanted to play for Australia ahead of NZ, it's more the fact that he would clearly prefer to play for NZ but has been coerced by the money on offer from playing SOO.

That is the issue - not whether he picked NZ/Australia (he is perfectly entitled to do so), but the fact that Origin is yet again allowed to impact internationals. He has clearly made this decision because he's been offered the carrot of an Origin jersey.

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