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perverse

Referee
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Geeeeez that kiwi team is ordinary.

Also might be the most ordinary halves combo for Australia i can remember.
 

Zoidberg

First Grade
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Seeing an unchanged (?) Australian team I think justifies KP’s initial thought of skipping selection for this series. More than a month of pre-season training missed for possibly zero game time.
Why not just shorten the timeline for this tournament to 2-3 weeks. Only playing weekends just drags it out too long.
 

Knight Tales

Bench
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Seeing an unchanged (?) Australian team I think justifies KP’s initial thought of skipping selection for this series. More than a month of pre-season training missed for possibly zero game time.
Why not just shorten the timeline for this tournament to 2-3 weeks. Only playing weekends just drags it out too long.
If KP plays strongly and gets overlooked at FB for Qld next season i can see him pulling the trigger and switching allegiance to NZ, if that is even possible. His treatment by Mal and the Roos selectors is disgraceful. It was all about humiliation.
 

Old dog

Bench
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Agreed that in the end was about humiliating and a warning to not do it again, anyone, but if correct procedures are followed it need not have happened, lesson learnt
 

Apey

Moderator
Staff member
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Can someone actually switch between tier 1 countries?
Don't know all the eligibility details but he's only played for Aus in schoolboys and 9s right? His Australia allegiance is mostly related to him wanting to play for QLD. I reckon if that wasn't an issue, and it probably won't be in the future, he'd be playing for QLD & NZ. I feel like he's avoided completely committing to Aus because he wants to play for NZ but can't because of QLD. Not the first time this has come up.
 

Black Panther

Juniors
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If KP plays strongly and gets overlooked at FB for Qld next season i can see him pulling the trigger and switching allegiance to NZ, if that is even possible. His treatment by Mal and the Roos selectors is disgraceful. It was all about humiliation.
Ponga was wrongly advised on the process of becoming unavailable for selection for Australia. Mal and the selectors did nothing wrong by not selecting him for the Kangaroos, they just didn’t see him as one of the best options.
 

Zoidberg

First Grade
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Ponga was wrongly advised on the process of becoming unavailable for selection for Australia. Mal and the selectors did nothing wrong by not selecting him for the Kangaroos, they just didn’t see him as one of the best options.
The media were the problem with this issue. Make a mountain out of a molehill.
 
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