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Brett Gosper: 3 Year Residency Rule to be changed?
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<blockquote data-quote="nickdnz" data-source="post: 723493" data-attributes="member: 38640"><p>We will have to agree to disagree. I'm not sure how you make a 'fact' to quantify white NZ national identity...</p><p></p><p>My argument have been less arbitrary than yours. Legally if I don't meet the requirements of citizenship (or even residency for that matter) why should I be allowed to play for that nation? I could accept that in the UK national identity for a guy who lives 100m on the English side of the Scottish border may feel Scottish, because legally he is afforded 99% of the same rights as if he were in Scotland and probably has invested years of his life in the area. Its just ridiculous that some criteria of a guy 'feeling' he's Irish enough based on grandparents can be considered for a national team without any legal basis of them being Irish. I 'feel' very Irish, sign me up for the Irish pension - why shouldn't I be eligable just because I am not from Ireland and haven't contributed to the nation at all?!</p><p></p><p>I have more sympathy for guys who stay for 3 years (which is still too short) like Payne, who will still have invested an 8th of his life in Ireland - than I do for Maitland who invested basically to be eligable for Scotland.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="nickdnz, post: 723493, member: 38640"] We will have to agree to disagree. I'm not sure how you make a 'fact' to quantify white NZ national identity... My argument have been less arbitrary than yours. Legally if I don't meet the requirements of citizenship (or even residency for that matter) why should I be allowed to play for that nation? I could accept that in the UK national identity for a guy who lives 100m on the English side of the Scottish border may feel Scottish, because legally he is afforded 99% of the same rights as if he were in Scotland and probably has invested years of his life in the area. Its just ridiculous that some criteria of a guy 'feeling' he's Irish enough based on grandparents can be considered for a national team without any legal basis of them being Irish. I 'feel' very Irish, sign me up for the Irish pension - why shouldn't I be eligable just because I am not from Ireland and haven't contributed to the nation at all?! I have more sympathy for guys who stay for 3 years (which is still too short) like Payne, who will still have invested an 8th of his life in Ireland - than I do for Maitland who invested basically to be eligable for Scotland. [/QUOTE]
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