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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: 713662" data-attributes="member: 20605"><p>I'll give you an idea of my thinking here.</p><p></p><p>In the military, when they want to send you away on a training course you, they will require you to sign what is called a "return of service". That is a contract (within your existing term contract) in which you guarantee that you will not leave the military for a period of time commensurate with the cost of sending you on that training course. For example, I was an RNZAF Avionics Tech for 20 years. When our P3B Orions were about to be refitted (to P3K standard), the RNZAF sent a few of us, including me to Moffett Naval Air Station on a training course, and to assess and inspect the installation in the US Navy's fleet of P3's, of the some of the Navigation hardware that was going to be part of our refit. The course would make us into valuable assets to the service, but only if they had enough time to get their money's worth out of us, so before being approved to go, we had to sign a three year return of service. The only way out was to buy our way out, i.e. pay back part of the cost.</p><p></p><p>IMO, something like that ought to happen in rugby. If your National Union has invested heavily in your training, they should damned well be entitled to expect a return on that investment. Rugby is a business now, and the NZRU, despite having the best team in the world, have a similar budget to that of an English club side. We cannot continue to act as talent supply to other countries at our expense.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="smartcooky, post: 713662, member: 20605"] I'll give you an idea of my thinking here. In the military, when they want to send you away on a training course you, they will require you to sign what is called a "return of service". That is a contract (within your existing term contract) in which you guarantee that you will not leave the military for a period of time commensurate with the cost of sending you on that training course. For example, I was an RNZAF Avionics Tech for 20 years. When our P3B Orions were about to be refitted (to P3K standard), the RNZAF sent a few of us, including me to Moffett Naval Air Station on a training course, and to assess and inspect the installation in the US Navy's fleet of P3's, of the some of the Navigation hardware that was going to be part of our refit. The course would make us into valuable assets to the service, but only if they had enough time to get their money's worth out of us, so before being approved to go, we had to sign a three year return of service. The only way out was to buy our way out, i.e. pay back part of the cost. IMO, something like that ought to happen in rugby. If your National Union has invested heavily in your training, they should damned well be entitled to expect a return on that investment. Rugby is a business now, and the NZRU, despite having the best team in the world, have a similar budget to that of an English club side. We cannot continue to act as talent supply to other countries at our expense. [/QUOTE]
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