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<blockquote data-quote="TRF_heineken" data-source="post: 532868" data-attributes="member: 40658"><p>Too true. I think what throw us off is when the commentators say they are from Samoan, Tongan or Fijian descent. We immediately think, oh great, just another massive bloke from the islands going to NZ for money. He might be from those descendants, but the commentators (and the Media) fail to mention that he, his parents, and grandparents are all NZ'ers.</p><p></p><p>I guess it's more of and issue with NZ and the PI nations, as we (non-NZ'ers) see it as that NZ already has such a big pool of players, and if a PI plays for them rather than their home nation, what good comes from trying to make rugby a global game when the assumption is that, the PI will never come up to scratch with the current top nations because their very little pool of players gets pilfered and they have to work around the pilfering just to get a descent matchday 22.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="TRF_heineken, post: 532868, member: 40658"] Too true. I think what throw us off is when the commentators say they are from Samoan, Tongan or Fijian descent. We immediately think, oh great, just another massive bloke from the islands going to NZ for money. He might be from those descendants, but the commentators (and the Media) fail to mention that he, his parents, and grandparents are all NZ'ers. I guess it's more of and issue with NZ and the PI nations, as we (non-NZ'ers) see it as that NZ already has such a big pool of players, and if a PI plays for them rather than their home nation, what good comes from trying to make rugby a global game when the assumption is that, the PI will never come up to scratch with the current top nations because their very little pool of players gets pilfered and they have to work around the pilfering just to get a descent matchday 22. [/QUOTE]
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