London Broncos • Re: Eden Park Auckland
Deadcowboys1 wrote:
Have always believed no matter what the sport is that you can only represent the country of your birth or the country either of your parents were born in. Nothing more, no residential qualifications or anything else.
So if you dont like any of those options, you cant play international sport. Easy really.
Agree with you here.
But, even 3rd+ generation Islanders identify with their "homelands", especially in terms of sporting occasions and I can see that such a small island nation as Tonga will have a bigger diaspora than its home population.
The major issue is that 11 of the 21 have represented other nations as well.
JT was selected for NZ (didn't get in the 19), then Played for Tonga, then New Zealand, then Tonga and the last change was because he disagreed with a management decision to exclude 2 players who were filmed taking cocaine.
As has been said to me, "other sports do it", but none to the extent that we allow it in RL
Statistics: Posted by AXE2GRIND — Wed Nov 06, 2019 7:25 pm