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<blockquote data-quote="Brigantine" data-source="post: 882256" data-attributes="member: 73940"><p>I can't help feeling this will end up having a link with all the (non-sport) politics around dual-citizenship. Well except in cases where people actually renounce their citizenship etc. of their former country e.g. refugees at the Olympics.</p><p></p><p>Players can already shop around for a club team. It makes a bit of sense that U20 players still have a chance to switch countries... but otherwise this is just shopping around for the best national team you're good enough to be hired by. You'd think people would know which country they have the strongest connection to *before* they find out which answer would be more convenient for their career.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>I get that in the NZ / Pacific case, it seems like tier 1 and tier 2 international rugby are almost completely different competitions. Internationally, there is a reasonably clear distinction between the 10 tier 1 teams and the rest - *for now*. But if things go well for rugby, that concept is going to get a lot messier in the next 10 years. If your tier classification makes much of a difference to the rules that apply to you, there's gonna be big fights over who gets what classification, and no one will be happy with the outcome.</p><p></p><p>Maybe a better solution is for more fixtures with barbarian type teams from places like the pacific islands with strong ties to major dual-nationality diaspora. You can show the team people want to see, but without watering down the meaning of playing for your country throughout the rest of the world. B&I Lions type concept, but with teams being e.g. Fiji + worldwide Fijian community.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Brigantine, post: 882256, member: 73940"] I can't help feeling this will end up having a link with all the (non-sport) politics around dual-citizenship. Well except in cases where people actually renounce their citizenship etc. of their former country e.g. refugees at the Olympics. Players can already shop around for a club team. It makes a bit of sense that U20 players still have a chance to switch countries... but otherwise this is just shopping around for the best national team you're good enough to be hired by. You'd think people would know which country they have the strongest connection to *before* they find out which answer would be more convenient for their career. I get that in the NZ / Pacific case, it seems like tier 1 and tier 2 international rugby are almost completely different competitions. Internationally, there is a reasonably clear distinction between the 10 tier 1 teams and the rest - *for now*. But if things go well for rugby, that concept is going to get a lot messier in the next 10 years. If your tier classification makes much of a difference to the rules that apply to you, there's gonna be big fights over who gets what classification, and no one will be happy with the outcome. Maybe a better solution is for more fixtures with barbarian type teams from places like the pacific islands with strong ties to major dual-nationality diaspora. You can show the team people want to see, but without watering down the meaning of playing for your country throughout the rest of the world. B&I Lions type concept, but with teams being e.g. Fiji + worldwide Fijian community. [/QUOTE]
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