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<blockquote data-quote="ncurd" data-source="post: 1037408" data-attributes="member: 72205"><p>Lying in bed last night I remembered my Grand Mother was South African born to English parents moved back as a teenager, did work in the embassy at one point, tenuous at best but better than some.</p><p></p><p>I also have Irish ancestry through my Great-Granfather</p><p></p><p>Full declaration I'll support the Lions but this was an exercise in can I justify supporting SA instead through tenuous ancestry. I also consider myself fully English I've been to Ireland twice and never SA. I grew up and lived here. This is a bit of fun.</p><p></p><p>So I tried to work out I'd SA will be more SA than the Lions would be that I'm English/Irish.</p><p></p><p>A full SA matchday side has 23 South Africans. This gives them in my mind 23 patriot points.</p><p></p><p>I then need to work out how many patriot points an English or Irish player vs a SA one is worth with my background.</p><p></p><p>Being 2/8 SA and 5/8 Eng means every English player is worth 2.5 v SA.</p><p></p><p>However being 2/8 and 1/8 Irish means every Irish player is worth 0.5 v SA</p><p></p><p>This means if 10 Englishmen and no Irishmen did the team would be worth 25 patriot points and therefore I should support the Lions as they repsent me better. If 9 played a single Irishman would being to 23 to make even (go draws!) And a 2nd to bring it back over.</p><p></p><p>If all 8 Irishmen were in the matchday squad I'd only have 4 PP for the Lions so would need 8 Englishmen to make up for it.</p><p></p><p>Conclusion, I should be joining the Go Bokke bandwagon and I've proved ot through Maths.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="ncurd, post: 1037408, member: 72205"] Lying in bed last night I remembered my Grand Mother was South African born to English parents moved back as a teenager, did work in the embassy at one point, tenuous at best but better than some. I also have Irish ancestry through my Great-Granfather Full declaration I'll support the Lions but this was an exercise in can I justify supporting SA instead through tenuous ancestry. I also consider myself fully English I've been to Ireland twice and never SA. I grew up and lived here. This is a bit of fun. So I tried to work out I'd SA will be more SA than the Lions would be that I'm English/Irish. A full SA matchday side has 23 South Africans. This gives them in my mind 23 patriot points. I then need to work out how many patriot points an English or Irish player vs a SA one is worth with my background. Being 2/8 SA and 5/8 Eng means every English player is worth 2.5 v SA. However being 2/8 and 1/8 Irish means every Irish player is worth 0.5 v SA This means if 10 Englishmen and no Irishmen did the team would be worth 25 patriot points and therefore I should support the Lions as they repsent me better. If 9 played a single Irishman would being to 23 to make even (go draws!) And a 2nd to bring it back over. If all 8 Irishmen were in the matchday squad I'd only have 4 PP for the Lions so would need 8 Englishmen to make up for it. Conclusion, I should be joining the Go Bokke bandwagon and I've proved ot through Maths. [/QUOTE]
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