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Players who cannot get a game for NZ, RSA, or Eastern Australia Etc, would look at "Countries" like Western Australia,and would suddenly find a parent or grand parent who was born in WA, as they already do for Scotland etc.
Brache would not have qualified for the USA even although he was born there, because he had already played for Western Australia! We could apply that rule to DHP, Pocock, JOC and probably a few others.
This could be fun!
Last edited by JSJ; 21-11-19 at 09:10.
a quick guess - I am sure someone knows better then me. Of the current Force team - Only half would qualify for Western Australia under World Rugby Residency.
And WA born/developed players playing for the Rebels/Tahs/Brumbies eg: DHP having played for the Wallabies wouldnt be able to comeback.
WA would never get to play against Tier 1 or Tier 2 nations. Our Qualification for the next Rugby World Cup would depend on our ability to knock out Fiji or Samoa or Tonga.
Exile
Sydney
"Pain heels. Chicks dig scars and Glory lasts forever." Shane Falco
X beat me to it JSJ, you can't play for WA if you've already played for Australia.
Under current structures that is. Twiggy would have to throw enough money towards the home unions to convince them to change the parameters and you could argue that any national representation prior to WAs endorsement as a "country" is invalid, since the player didn't have the opportunity to represent his union of choice and was forced to take second best.
Residency rules will knock out most of our big names though, Coleman would have qualified, but reset his clock, ditto for most of the Rebels players who we count as sand gropers.
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Exile
Sydney
"Pain heels. Chicks dig scars and Glory lasts forever." Shane Falco
Jeeze I do a really good job of arguing for the bad guys............. it's not deliberate.
and they would say that as they said in their press release dated........... as discussed with Mr Andrew Forrest and Mr Matt Hodgson Western Force players will be and are available to be selected for Wallabies.
than they would say - at this time they do not believe that anyone has proven to be good enough to be of a Wallabies standard. But they look forward to the time when a Western Force player is selected for the Wallabies.
I dont know why I do this to myself...........
Exile
Sydney
"Pain heels. Chicks dig scars and Glory lasts forever." Shane Falco
That's not the rules which apply in soccer, where this is a more frequent issue. If a 'new' nation is formed (eg, Kosovo) then players who have played for the other countries can decide to play for the new country (if they qualify). Thus the Kosovo soccer team has players who have previously been capped by Albania, Montenegro, Germany, Austria, Switzerland and Norway.
So if similar rules were put in place, DHP could certainly apply to be considered as 'West Australian', rather than 'Australian'.
Don't tell me the sky's the limit when there are footprints on the moon
Your Honour,
Counsel for Eastern Australia Mr X, has just stated in his evidence that the the selectors for the new rugby nation of Eastern Australia did not consider any of of the players from Western Australia of good enough standard to play for their Wallaby team. That is the crux of the matter Your Honour and that is why World Rugby has ruled that Western Australia can enter a team seperate to Eastern Australia in the World Cup.
(Judge chuckles. and says "yes Mr JSJ, strange that your team always seems the spank their teams, yet they want want to desperately hang onto players they pinched from your team and prevent them from playing for your team in the World Cup"")
Case dismissed.
I doubt World Rugby would either