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<blockquote data-quote="saulan" data-source="post: 794126" data-attributes="member: 60236"><p>I was in a meeting earlier so couldn't fully respond to your message, so I will now. The way I read the above says that the Union can change it once per year only. South Africa prefers having the U20 team as our designated team. But you are saying that we have assigned it to our South Africa A team. But according to the rules we can't just say for this period of time we want our representative team to be South Africa A and once they have finished playing their 2 or three matches we want it to be the U20 team. We have to commit it to being the South Africa A team for the whole year. But that is not desirable for South Africa and I don't understand why South Africa would do that, especially when this whole thread was started by an article reaffirming that the U20s were our second team and that there was a set reason to keep our youngsters pinned to South Africa.</p><p>(For your reference, here is the link: <a href="http://www.sport24.co.za/Rugby/saru-attempts-to-keep-junior-stars-in-sa-20160411" target="_blank">http://www.sport24.co.za/Rugby/saru-attempts-to-keep-junior-stars-in-sa-20160411</a> )</p><p></p><p>Specifically, in that article, it says this:</p><p>"<span style="color: #232323"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">Players representing the SA 'A' team will, however, be allowed to play for another nation if they did not represent the Baby Boks.</span></span>"</p><p>So in essence, I think that you think we assigned the SA A side as our second team for this period, but that is not allowed for a specific time period and is also not the case. Moreover I have seen no mention anywhere of South Africa announcing that we have made our A team representative for this tour. If you have some source on that, I will gladly change my view, but all you have presented is your words here without any evidence, which is why I have a serious level of scepticism as all other evidence I can find points to the contrary of your opinion.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="saulan, post: 794126, member: 60236"] I was in a meeting earlier so couldn't fully respond to your message, so I will now. The way I read the above says that the Union can change it once per year only. South Africa prefers having the U20 team as our designated team. But you are saying that we have assigned it to our South Africa A team. But according to the rules we can't just say for this period of time we want our representative team to be South Africa A and once they have finished playing their 2 or three matches we want it to be the U20 team. We have to commit it to being the South Africa A team for the whole year. But that is not desirable for South Africa and I don't understand why South Africa would do that, especially when this whole thread was started by an article reaffirming that the U20s were our second team and that there was a set reason to keep our youngsters pinned to South Africa. (For your reference, here is the link: [URL]http://www.sport24.co.za/Rugby/saru-attempts-to-keep-junior-stars-in-sa-20160411[/URL] ) Specifically, in that article, it says this: "[COLOR=#232323][FONT=Arial]Players representing the SA ‘A’ team will, however, be allowed to play for another nation if they did not represent the Baby Boks.[/FONT][/COLOR]" So in essence, I think that you think we assigned the SA A side as our second team for this period, but that is not allowed for a specific time period and is also not the case. Moreover I have seen no mention anywhere of South Africa announcing that we have made our A team representative for this tour. If you have some source on that, I will gladly change my view, but all you have presented is your words here without any evidence, which is why I have a serious level of scepticism as all other evidence I can find points to the contrary of your opinion. [/QUOTE]
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