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<blockquote data-quote="Every Time Ref" data-source="post: 707438" data-attributes="member: 71826"><p>I'm not sure about the situation for players whose current contracts overlap the start of the new franchise, but certainly anyone signing a new contract for another club is out of commission internationally. I totally agree with your poetic choice of words, but that is the plan - when the new franchise was announced Pichot explicitly stated that national selection would only be available for players playing Super XV rugby. I get the principle (I'm in the anti-Armitage camp, for example) but it seems far too restrictive to introduce such a restrictive rule from day one. The fact is, if those three players, for example, all refused to sign for the new franchise, they would all kiss their international career goodbye under UAR's own rules.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Every Time Ref, post: 707438, member: 71826"] I'm not sure about the situation for players whose current contracts overlap the start of the new franchise, but certainly anyone signing a new contract for another club is out of commission internationally. I totally agree with your poetic choice of words, but that is the plan - when the new franchise was announced Pichot explicitly stated that national selection would only be available for players playing Super XV rugby. I get the principle (I'm in the anti-Armitage camp, for example) but it seems far too restrictive to introduce such a restrictive rule from day one. The fact is, if those three players, for example, all refused to sign for the new franchise, they would all kiss their international career goodbye under UAR's own rules. [/QUOTE]
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