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Are South Africa Missing out on players with huge potential ?
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<blockquote data-quote="Leonormous Boozer" data-source="post: 734922" data-attributes="member: 45598"><p>I along with many others would be totally against using the granny rule. Apart from playing for two country's the system is fine. Teams who rely on project players are generally ****e and are punished for not trusting their own. (Scotty's Scotland born XV is better than what they usually throw out) Sport and nationality are strange, you can be the staunchest of followers for a nation with what some people would find a very loose link. </p><p></p><p>In county football over here for example, where we associate with the county we are from very strongly, I support Dublin and Fermanagh with the latter shading it if the unlikely scenario of them meeting came about. I was born and bred in Dublin but along with my siblings I'm the only one in the family to have been born and bred here, my granny was from Fermanagh, my father always supported Fermanagh and he got me into the sport so now I do as well. Nationality is not purely a question of where you were born and where your parents were born, it's a lot more complicated for some people and can't be treated like citizenship when dealing with sport.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Leonormous Boozer, post: 734922, member: 45598"] I along with many others would be totally against using the granny rule. Apart from playing for two country's the system is fine. Teams who rely on project players are generally ****e and are punished for not trusting their own. (Scotty's Scotland born XV is better than what they usually throw out) Sport and nationality are strange, you can be the staunchest of followers for a nation with what some people would find a very loose link. In county football over here for example, where we associate with the county we are from very strongly, I support Dublin and Fermanagh with the latter shading it if the unlikely scenario of them meeting came about. I was born and bred in Dublin but along with my siblings I'm the only one in the family to have been born and bred here, my granny was from Fermanagh, my father always supported Fermanagh and he got me into the sport so now I do as well. Nationality is not purely a question of where you were born and where your parents were born, it's a lot more complicated for some people and can't be treated like citizenship when dealing with sport. [/QUOTE]
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