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<blockquote data-quote="Count of Devonshire" data-source="post: 254763"><p>Ultimately, our history dictates that we're always going to have 'impure', for want of a much better word, people playing for us (and that's us as in England or the Lions). For me, if any of our colonialist cousins want to play for the Isles, and they qualify to do so, then they are well within their rights and we should embrace them. Our former colonies have tended to be very loyal when we've needed them in the past, and I'm not going to say that we owe them anything here but I'd like to think that rugby, being a gentlemans game, would see beyond the petty squabbles over ancestry when we're all really in very similar boats. </p><p></p><p>Personally I'd plump for D'Arcy anyway to keep together a 'unit' with O'Driscoll, but the old bean Flutey will most likely make the trip given his form. Being a rugby chap, he'll be well aware of what The Lions represent, and if he wants to get involved with such a historic institution then I'm all for it.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Count of Devonshire, post: 254763"] Ultimately, our history dictates that we're always going to have 'impure', for want of a much better word, people playing for us (and that's us as in England or the Lions). For me, if any of our colonialist cousins want to play for the Isles, and they qualify to do so, then they are well within their rights and we should embrace them. Our former colonies have tended to be very loyal when we've needed them in the past, and I'm not going to say that we owe them anything here but I'd like to think that rugby, being a gentlemans game, would see beyond the petty squabbles over ancestry when we're all really in very similar boats. Personally I'd plump for D'Arcy anyway to keep together a 'unit' with O'Driscoll, but the old bean Flutey will most likely make the trip given his form. Being a rugby chap, he'll be well aware of what The Lions represent, and if he wants to get involved with such a historic institution then I'm all for it. [/QUOTE]
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