Quote: hutch "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!'"
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.
