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Spare me the personal experience tales mate, it means little on an anonymous internet forum. Id challenge you to find me one player who has refused selection in a big 3 team so they can represent a minor side
Spare me the personal experience tales mate, it means little on an anonymous internet forum. Id challenge you to find me one player who has refused selection in a big 3 team so they can represent a minor side
Lee Briers.
Not true. He's never had the chance to play for England. He didn't get picked all those years ago for Great Britain when the 'Briers for Britain' shouts were getting louder was because they didn't think he was good enough, mainly his defence to be fair.
I have it from a very good source that he was asked about his availability for the 2008 World Cup for England.
Also, Wes Naiqama turned down origin to play for Fiji.
Yes Hutch, a lack of a governing body is 1 problem.Fair points, lack of a strong governing body and meaningful schedule are definitely holding nations such as Fiji back, which I have said along.
lol bullshit
Naiqama has never been within 1000 kms of an origin jersey
And I must have imagined Lam playing for qld too
Try harder fellas
Spare me the personal experience tales mate, it means little on an anonymous internet forum. Id challenge you to find me one player who has refused selection in a big 3 team so they can represent a minor side
Adrian Lam played for Qld after he played for PNG. After this starring in the origin series, he earned selection for Australia but shocked the national selectors when he told them that he was a PNG player and he would not stop playing for them. He actually even took it one step further. As an ARL aligned player he actually took no notice of there directives not to play for the super league aligned PNG and he was the only player to actually play for Superleague and ARL International sides.
So far as ignoring politics and having passion, Lam was possibly the greatest international ever, imo.
Definitely a loss but if he wasn't committed then f**k him.John Sutton's pulled out due to an unknown/unnamed injury.
Ryan Millard takes his place. Big loss. I was really looking forward to him playing for Fiji.