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<blockquote data-quote="Big Ewis" data-source="post: 667662" data-attributes="member: 57076"><p>^ mmm, I guess...I suppose it's quite fair in a way. I don't know, would you say in absolute terms it's okay for a nation to pick guys from abroad because they have interesting physiological aptitudes/predispositions, even though they have a past playing the sport in their own country, albeit not at a pro level ? There's definitely some legitimacy in that, but then again it's a lot better if you can just blood your own players who were born and bread home...</p><p>Kockott I'd really rather not, because he's clearly got a past before Castres and just simply is South African and not French, but I suppose a Nakaitaci or the Maka Tongan colossus are alright. It's still poaching, but by today's standards, I guess it's just good scouting and setting the right conditions for stuff like this to happen...yeah, it's good recruiting and (hopefully) developing. I'm about 50/50 on that.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Big Ewis, post: 667662, member: 57076"] ^ mmm, I guess...I suppose it's quite fair in a way. I don't know, would you say in absolute terms it's okay for a nation to pick guys from abroad because they have interesting physiological aptitudes/predispositions, even though they have a past playing the sport in their own country, albeit not at a pro level ? There's definitely some legitimacy in that, but then again it's a lot better if you can just blood your own players who were born and bread home... Kockott I'd really rather not, because he's clearly got a past before Castres and just simply is South African and not French, but I suppose a Nakaitaci or the Maka Tongan colossus are alright. It's still poaching, but by today's standards, I guess it's just good scouting and setting the right conditions for stuff like this to happen...yeah, it's good recruiting and (hopefully) developing. I'm about 50/50 on that. [/QUOTE]
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