The great "English rugby should / shouldn't select overseas based players" discussion.

[Which Tyler]

Here you go - have at it; but pretty please, can we isolate the discussion to this thread, so that everyone else can quietly ignore it.

 

[Duck a l'Orange]

How about an allowance clause; you can play abroad and still be selected for England, but only for 1 or 2 seasons before you must return if you want to keep playing for the national side.

Seems like it'd be a good balance of allowing players to develop, travel, and top up their earnings, without losing them entirely to the national side or depriving the premiership of too much talent.

 

[Don't Skip Leg Day]

I mean add Willis to the team and the results don't change. Back row is not somewhere we lack for skill especially when SB won't even drop Earl who's out of form.

The process works fine as is, if players want to go abroad and not get selected for England fine, we'll do without them, no one player is un-replaceable.

 

[McTallshort]

no one player is un-replaceable.

 

[Ragey Erasmus]

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[Jimbo]

It's not really a question of singling out a player who one feels may or may not change results, bottom line is historically there wasn't the financial gulf there now is, it's a short career in the grand scheme of things and injury's can end careers very quickly, got to maximise the earnings whilst you can, then there is the ability to Win not just be competitive in the champions cup of which prem teams can't currently. I think it's now more of a case of adapting with the times, the landscape isn't the same as it was 10 years ago.