union international eligibility

[nqcowboy87]

how do they work out international union eligibility. a few of the fijian boys are from australia and play in france. i thought the union international eligibilty rules where meant to be a lot stricter

 

[Parra]

They are. Where ever you play first, you stay there.

So the normal residency/parents rules apply. But you cannot chop & change like you can in league. In rugby union players have to make their choice and stick with it.

 

[African Monkey]

To the OP, they are stricter. Isa Nacewa was someone who paid the price for playing a couple of minutes for Fiji in the 2003 world cup which denied him a chance at having a shot with the All Blacks.