nottinghamtiger wrote:
Interesting, but at least your opinion avoids confusion!
You might come up against opposition from people like me, born overseas to two English parents who were working abroad but returned to England at 4 months old, in your system I'm not English which is ridiculous. I agree though that once you have selected a nationality, you shoouldn't be able to change this (though let's remember Chase never actually played for New Zealand).
And I realise that my preferred system would penalise genunine people like yourself, but would hope that over time would bring more credibility to our game than the current rules. I could live with the rules saying that players must have lived permanently in that country since the age of 3 for example, but people would then argue for a different age limit. Therefore, I believe the best system would be the country of birth, and whilst it would penalise a minority, it would prevent players like Fa'asavalu, Chase, Brough, Heighington etc making a mockery of our sport.
As for Chase, he may not have played for New Zealand, but it was only recently that he stated his desire to, and I'm in no doubt that had he been selected he would have been lining up for them over the last month.
