Big Ronnie

[bluefox68]

So my question is:
Do all the other players who want to play for Samoa / Tonga etc AND play for NSW/QLD also meet that criterion?

Interesting that RM has also played for USA and Samoa…

 

[snout]

Haha....inglis. carroll. Thorn. The list goes on and on and on.
Its always been a joke.
Until a winger gets picked?!?

 

[Cheese sandwich]

Didn't nathan fien play several tests for NZ and it was afterwards they realised he wasn't eligible?

 

[bluefox68]

Didn't nathan fien play several tests for NZ and it was afterwards they realised he wasn't eligible?

At least one, then, Yes - ineligible!

 

[bad boy bubby]

So my question is:
Do all the other players who want to play for Samoa / Tonga etc AND play for NSW/QLD also meet that criterion?

Interesting that RM has also played for USA and Samoa…

Nah, 2nd tier nation reps can play SOO, that's why A-Fi still wanted to be picked for NSW after he chose Tonga.
If they were playing here at 13 or before they qualify.

 

[bad boy bubby]

Didn't nathan fien play several tests for NZ and it was afterwards they realised he wasn't eligible?

Yep. They didn't check his history and just believed what they were told.

 

[Don Tweddle]

This kind of farce shouldn't happen at the elite level of professional sport. Real bush league stuff.

 

[Inferno]

Does this make in ineligible to play for Australia?

Seems to be quite the bitch move to complain about a player not being eligible at all as opposed to wanting to play for one side despite only being available to play for the other.

 

[bad boy bubby]

I hope the Sharks are onto this and are ready to help him get over it. He runs on emotion, he even says thats what drives him.
Lets hope him being let down this way doesn't carry over to us. Onto it whoever the well being officer is, Jeff Robson is it?

 

[Go Nulla]

Rules are rules Ronny. Get over it ghee

 

[Quigs]

Ronnie is another cronullafied victim.

 

[glenmoresharkie]

Wow what a joke. He would be absolutely gutted. I am for him.

 

[myrrh ken]

Ruled himself out. What a big move

 

[snout]

U

Ruled himself out. What a big move

Yep.
The danger was if he played the result would be null and void if qld won so he made the call himself this morning.
Kudos to ronnie.
Some coat took his spot

 

[jason taylor]

Akuila Uate came to Australia as a 15 and it didn't stop him from playing for the Blues...

The criteria is a joke does anyone really care any more?

I want to know more about this. Did they change the eligibility rules since then, or did it just fly under the radar? Seems that he moved from Fiji to Woy Woy when he was 16…

 

[chewsta]

Im gutted for the poor bastard.
I hope he comes back from camp with a point to prove and plays like a maniac possessed for us.

 

[bad boy bubby]

I want to know more about this. Did they change the eligibility rules since then, or did it just fly under the radar? Seems that he moved from Fiji to Woy Woy when he was 16…

They changed the rule just after he played SOO

 

[bad boy bubby]

 

[Frenzy.]

What a cluster phuque!

Like everything else in the game the eligibility rules are disorganised, over complicated and just a tad subjective.

Get rid of the second tier nation crap and call them all Nations and you pick and stick with one of them FFS

 

[The Masked Avenger]

No one ever accused Queenslanders of being able to read. Hence not sure why we are all shocked at the QRL missing this one for so long.

ps it massively sucks that it has happened to Ronnie and he has shown massive maturity in his response.