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Loophole in Eligibility laws welcomed news for Pacific Island Nation
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<blockquote data-quote="smartcooky" data-source="post: 669170" data-attributes="member: 20605"><p>The iRB might be looking at closing this loophole by using an <em>"Eligibility Committee"</em>. </p><p></p><p><a href="http://www.nzherald.co.nz/sport/news/article.cfm?c_id=4&objectid=11313377" target="_blank">http://www.nzherald.co.nz/sport/news/article.cfm?c_id=4&objectid=11313377</a></p><p></p><p>I have a better solution. Why not separate eligibility for Sevens and Fifteens, i.e. rewrite the Regulation so that playing Sevens does not capture eligibility for 15's (and vice versa)? They are, after all, Sevens has become a very specialist game with many different Laws and different tactics. OK, you could end up with some players turning out for different countries in the two codes, but so what? It would be far better than the travesty we have now.</p><p></p><p>If not that, then why not have the Regulation written so that players can swap ONLY for Olympic Sevens qualifying and the Games tournament itself? After the Olympics is over, the player cannot continue to play for their swapped nation until the next Olympics qualifying begins; they must revert back to their first captured nation.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="smartcooky, post: 669170, member: 20605"] The iRB might be looking at closing this loophole by using an [I]"Eligibility Committee"[/I]. [URL]http://www.nzherald.co.nz/sport/news/article.cfm?c_id=4&objectid=11313377[/URL] I have a better solution. Why not separate eligibility for Sevens and Fifteens, i.e. rewrite the Regulation so that playing Sevens does not capture eligibility for 15's (and vice versa)? They are, after all, Sevens has become a very specialist game with many different Laws and different tactics. OK, you could end up with some players turning out for different countries in the two codes, but so what? It would be far better than the travesty we have now. If not that, then why not have the Regulation written so that players can swap ONLY for Olympic Sevens qualifying and the Games tournament itself? After the Olympics is over, the player cannot continue to play for their swapped nation until the next Olympics qualifying begins; they must revert back to their first captured nation. [/QUOTE]
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