But then you'd just get nobody who is any good bothered about playing for smaller teams. No decent player is gonna play in a random Fiji v Samoa or Scotland v Wales game in front of 500 people when doing so means they'll lose any chance they might have had at playing for England/Australia/New Zealand in a World Cup final. You'll just get players declaring for the lower tier nations at the back end of their careers once they've realised there's no chance that they're ever gonna get selected by a top tier nation.

Of course the best way would be to standardise international payments and pay them from a central RLIF fund. So that then there is no difference in playing for Australia or Samoa in terms of cash.
If we can then involve the nations with most potential more often and in a set schedule I think we could make some progress.

So much Cynicism in this thread. Maybe it is about his love for Australia

Kind Regards

King James

Lote Tuqiri and Petero Civoneceva were both Fijian born, with Fijian parents. The difference between the two is that Lote was 15 when he came to Oz, Petero was One. Australian born Willie Mason, was raised in NZ and had a NZ Passport when he debuted for Australia. He didn't even have an Aussie one at the time.


It's all a bit cloudy isn't it, and needs serious looking at.


Oh and if an aussie talks about foreign cricketers, just see if they remember "Dinky Di" Kepler Wessels. Never mind the sports people from around the world they got to be Aussies for the Sydney Olympics. My favourite being the chinese table tennis player that couldn't even speak English properly after she moved from Poland whom she represented previously.

Was she called Ping Pong? I'll get my coat....