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| There's a bit of a myth about Australia selecting island players.
Apart from Uate, Civoniceva and Tuqiri, who were all born in Fiji but emigrated to Australia as children and came through their development systems, everyone else was born in Australia. NZ are the worst offenders.
As mentioned earlier, there are two main issues:
1. Nation swapping
2. Residency
Nation swapping is necessary I feel when we're a developing sport in many countries. If we want a remotely competitive international scene, the likes of Scotland, Ireland, Samoa, Tonga, etc. are going to have to borrow players from the major nations to compete.
However, the need to swap nations between the bigger nations is completely unnecessary. That's why I like the Vagana idea of selecting a major nation and minor nation.
At the end of the day, nobody bats an eyelid that nation swapping happens in athletics all the time, and that's a far bigger sport.
In regards to the residency rules, I think they're a joke. 3 years is not long enough to represent a country in sport. That's a short-term contract length. It runs the risk of buying players in for internationals.
People that have emigrated here early and developed here yeah, no problem. Someone like Harrison Hansen, who was born in NZ but has lived here as a child, I'd agree with being selected. But Fa'asavalu and Chase being selected were complete jokes.
But again, you only have to look at England RU and Cricket to know we aren't the only ones.
As for Brown's complaints about Henderson, you've got to laugh! "If he sounds like an Aussie and looks like an Aussie..." what does an Aussie look like?! A very stupid comment from him. Especially considering he was born in England to British parents! Did he just morph into looking like an Aussie?! Would he have turned black had he moved to Kenya?!
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| Quote: Wellsy13 "Why shouldn't someone who was born in England and has an English parent not be allowed to play for England?'"
because he's already played for another country , thats why
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| Quote: Pjhoe "because he's already played for another country , thats why'"
Do you think he would have played for one of the minor nations had the rule been "one country only"?
The Aussies and Kiwis use this rule a lot.
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| Quote: Pjhoe "because he's already played for another country , thats why'"
Do you also think we should not consider Brough, Bridge or Carvell?
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| Quote: carl_spackler "Do you also think we should not consider Brough, Bridge or Carvell?'"
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Yes I do but thats just my opinion and if people dissagree then I repect there opinion to
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| Didn't realise Henderson was born in England, has British parents and moved to Oz when he was young. Just like Reed. Fair play really, he's English.
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