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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Shaggy" data-source="post: 392078" data-attributes="member: 43400">... As a side issue, Mehrtens isn't even a case of New Zealand "poaching" a player - he may have been born in South Africa, but he only lived there until he was one, and his father and grand father were both All Blacks. ... and yes, most off the Pacific Island talent eligible for New Zealand is made up of players born or brought up from a very young age in New Zealand, just as some of the New Zealand, and much of the Pacific Island that Australia now picks are either born there or brought up there... my own postings are mean't to address compensation for players taken from one nation by a club in another nation ... if New Zealand takes a player that another nation has developed, then they should pay as well IMO</blockquote>