30yr old Tongan international drafted into the side

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Would much rather a young english 2nd row be given a chance I think we've got plenty about!

Embarrassing.

he isnt even that good!

What a joke.

Every other team/sport does it.
Play by the rules, its fair game.

On the other hand I think Residency rules should be 5 years

First we had fa'asavalu now we got manu what is this game coming to, its no wonder young players are going to the other code and that our game is a laughing stock at international level, if i was him i would reject the call and say im not from england so its wrong. Why cant we just have 17 men born playing for england born in england.

Why should we all be sheep and follow other sports ?

I would be more inclined to have a positive reaction if he was a 23yr old world beater who had never played international rugby but I feel we have others who could do a job in that position who are English and he is too old to be making his debut as a non english player IMO

As said, he's nowhere near good enough to play for England.

Totally embarrassing for the sport.

geez the rep game has sunk to an all time low! Is this what we have to look forward to under the new England coach?

As said if it was SBW and he'd not represented it would be worth the derision, but for Manu? Pleeeeease!

Ridiculous decision.

I think whats important to remember here is that the England national team are not world beaters with hundreds upon hundreds of rising young players all knocking on the coaches door begging to be given a game.

This guy wont be any worse than the players you have already.

Who knows.. he might even turn out to be better

I haven't got a problem with him being called in to the squad based on his nationality - this is the nature of 21st century sport. But the simple fact is that back row is perhaps our strongest area with Burgess, Ellis, Westwood, O'loughlin, Tomkins, Sinfield, etc and therefore we don't need Manu, so purely on ability grounds this is a strange one for me.

Thats just a couple of names
Ellis
Burgess
Tomkins
Harrison
Westwood
Langley
JJB

Much like you it would seem.

We dont have any other 2nd Rowers as good as Manu (at what he does) so in terms of the quality of the squad this is an improvement IMO. Not a fan of players playing for multiple countries but as has already been pointed out the Aussies dont seem to mind doing it so why should we put ourselves at a disadvantage?

I am surprised Manu agreed to play for England though.