All aboard the joke train!

[koreanwarrior]

Why can't players play State of Origin and still play for the Kiwis?

The rules for State of Origin were that it's where you played you first game of senior club football I thought.

So what does that have to do with your eligibility for NZ?

Carroll could have played SOO and still played for the Kiwis. He shouldn't be allowed to play for the kiwis and then turn around and play for OZ.

And Brent Webb shouldn't be able to play for the Kiwis just because he's been living in NZ for 3 years.

That would make every NZer playing for Australain based teams who hasn't yet played for the kiwis eligible to play for Australia soon enough. What sort of BS precedents are we setting.

If you are going to get in on residency grounds then it should be something like 6 years minimum.

 

[littleduck]

Anyone who's a suckhole to Wayne Bennett deserves selection in the Kangaroos. Wayne Bennett's a bigot and the sooner the ARL kicks him out of the coaching job, the sooner that many players can earn the honour of becoming a Kangaroo

What players? NSW players?

 

[koreanwarrior]

Do you know anything about Tonie Carrol? The bloke has known the Australian national anthem forever and dreamt of a Maroon and Kangaroo jersey. He played for NZ 5 or 6 years ago but had to learn the haka and didn't know the words to teh national anthem. So where does his passion lie?

Mate, nobody in NZ knows the words to the national anthem and even after seeing the haka hundreds of times I'd still have to practice it for ages to get it right.

On your last point.... He played for New Zealand. If he wasn't passionate about pulling on the Kiwi jersey then stiff ********. He made his bed and should be made to lie in it.