What I took from it was that there was a full page article on rugby league in a scottish newspaper/webpage. That is a first, and so we should look at the bigger picture.

A purist would say that once you pick your country, that should be it. I've some sympathy with that, as how else are the other UK nations going to put out a team if the star players are going to defect every time they get a sniff of an England shirt. Or rather, nothing interesting will happen in a Scotland shirt, and so might as well hedge my bets and go for England.

However, many people would say he is English anyway. English mother, born in England and brought up in England. Even on the most liberal agenda, he is English.

Would I have played it differently if I was Danny Brough? No. He played in a world cup. If he wants to play against the best, he will have to be English, and he is English. Certainly more English than he is a Scot, I would wager.

I work with an old lad that was born in middleton has scottish parants and even tho he's english he scottish through and though at heart

and a whino to boot

if he doesnt feel any passion to play for scotland, he shouldnt have done so in the first place. and NEVER should he have taken the captaincy. i just feel he used to scotland to play in a world cup and enhance is name and now is turning around and saying "thanks, but no thanks"

mercenary is the word your looking for, rugby league career can be short lived keep that in mind before you ridicule a player who wants to play at the top, hard enough trying to keep hold of him our selves