The rules for eligibility are very clear and have been so since the start. But at the end of the day players are essentially able to choose when there is a question mark. There is only one bloke who has played Origin for the wrong team and everyone knows who he is and he will forever be a joke as a result.

Under State of Origin rules players are selected for the state in which they first played senior (or registered to play) rugby league. I believe Greg Inglis played his first Senior game in NSW for the Newcastle Hunter club. He Plays for Queensland in SoO.......what part of that didn't break the rule above?

Under State of Origin rules players must be eligable to play for Australia.Akuila Uate (born 6 October 1987 in Votua, Fiji)
On the 15th of May 2011, Uate was selected on the wing for the NSW State of Origin team for Game 1 of the 2011 State of Origin series. This happened after he wrote to Rugby League International Federation chairman Colin Love, requesting a change of allegiance from his native Fiji to Australia giving the most b0ll0k excuse I have heard for switching international countries. Colin Love had a pretty important job before his RLIF post by the way....Chairman of...wait for it, NSWRL.



I repeat, the rules are bent as and when required....regardless of how clear you think they are.

The rules are you play for the state where you played your first representative football from age 16 or up. Inglis played his first rep football in Brisbane. Uate played his first EVER game for the Wyong Kangaroos. So the rules have been applied exactly as written in both cases.

And there is no such thing as the "Newcastle Hunter club" so you are just showing the kind of ignorance I would expect from a union troll. You don't know the rules, you don't know anything about the players' backgrounds and you don't know anything about the game here at all, which is why you make up clubs that don't exist. Credibility bye bye.

Was Adrian Lam eligible for Australia then?

Yes he was. He moved here as a small child. The only difference is he chose to play for PNG. Even though it's nothing more than a "third world country" full of criminals and and corrupt politicians apparently.

Isn't Benji Marshall eligible for Australia then?

the eligility rules are fairly clear re origin

lol

glad to see our efforts to educate you are not being wasted!

SOO eligibility is as flexible as a gymnast. If it suits your in. Uate had made himself eligible for Fiji meaning he was not eligible for Australia for 2 years meaning he should not have played for NSW. I have no problem with it, they should just stop the pretence and allow anyone who wants to play in it eligible depending on where they align themselves with.

The sad thing is in his desire to play SOO RL has lost the opportunity for a star player like Uate to really be a figure head for the game in Fiji.

Wrong..........Rules state where you first played Senior Grade RL.............nothing about Under age comps...HTH.

....typo, should have said "a" Newcastle Hunter Club not "the"


Again......you start with the abuse





OK.....so my opinion differs to yours and you call me names.......



Seriously.......some people need to learn how to accept the views of others without getting all defensive.

Wrong. He played for Fiji in the last World Cup cycle. He now has the ability to change allegiences if he applies to the RLIF, which he did. If he played for Fiji last year he wouldn't be allowed to play for NSW, but he didn't.

Wrong. The rules talk about senior football, but the definition of senior football is rep under 16s or higher. And even if that was true it doesn't alter the fact that those players are well within the rules to play for the state they play for. If you don't know the rules and you don't make any sense you have no credibility on the matter. Differing views have no bearing on facts.