Pasifika SR team
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@mofitzy_ said in Pasifika SR team:
And even if your only motivation is looking after your family economically, the model is: play for the ABs then move to England or France. AB success is how you make a name for yourself in Europe. Please tell me how a NZ team made with mostly NZ players strengthens PI rugby. I really struggle to see the connection. It just weakens the other 5 teams.
The people backing MP don't see them as NZ players, but as Pasifika players that are eligible for Tonga/Samoa/Fiji. The thinking seems to be that players who can earn enough in Super Rugby (MP), will be less inclined to go to Europe, which - indeed - may be a bit naieve. If they stay in SR, it will be easier to represent their Island Nation because they won't have the problem they now face with player release by European clubs.
Payment by the Island nations for playing test rugby will be a challenge, but that's why - I think - the Island Unions will get a share in the revenue (broadcasting rights etc). They'll definitely need to sort out the corruption part, so players don't have to wait two years to get paid for playing tests, again.
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@stargazer said in Pasifika SR team:
He obviously meant that those contracts will be more widely used.
Seriously why? Any of the teams can do that now with a player of any cultural heritage.
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@stargazer said in Pasifika SR team:
The thinking seems to be that players who can earn enough in Super Rugby (MP), will be less inclined to go to Europe, which - indeed - may be a bit naieve.
Nailed it, naive. Also why it is a stupid idea. Luatua wasn't going to stay because he could play for MP and then qualify for Samoa when he could be an AB and make a fortune overseas.
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@stargazer said in Pasifika SR team:
@snowy Why? Because MP will be fishing in the same pond and the NZ franchises want to put the best bait on the hook, so they won't sign with MP.
Sorry, I'm still not getting that. All of the franchises are fishing in the same pond. Would MP be any less attractive if the young players can still make the ABs and increase their value? That will still be where the ambition lies for most of them surely. Why would a 10 year contract at the Blues be any better? Other than the job security issue of MP failing - like most expansion teams.
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@snowy god imagine spending 10 years at the Blues. Just watching every other team win something while you turn corner after corner...
Basing this team in NZ is good for MP, and fucking terrible for literally everyone else.
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Does nationality by descent continue infinitum for PI people? I know that you can get nationality by descent but does it have a limit (e.g. in NZ I gave my boy NZ citizenship but he can't pass it along unless he changes his NZ status or has his kids in NZ or marries a kiwi). I ask because I wonder if there is a point when many NZ-born PIs may become ineligible for islands?
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@mariner4life said in Pasifika SR team:
@snowy god imagine spending 10 years at the Blues. Just watching every other team win something while you turn corner after corner...
Basing this team in NZ is good for MP, and fucking terrible for literally everyone else.
Yeah, might as well sign for the warriors for 20 years, and yes if you keep turning corners you end up back where you started. Depressing though as a Blues supporter. Still, you have Gatland back next year which makes me feel better.
As for the second bit, amen. The whole concept is terrible.
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@gt12 said in Pasifika SR team:
Does nationality by descent continue infinitum for PI people? I know that you can get nationality by descent but does it have a limit (e.g. in NZ I gave my boy NZ citizenship but he can't pass it along unless he changes his NZ status or has his kids in NZ or marries a kiwi). I ask because I wonder if there is a point when many NZ-born PIs may become ineligible for islands?
No different to anyone else as far as I know. Still grandparents, and their country of birth / citizenship for eligibility.
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@gt12 said in Pasifika SR team:
Does nationality by descent continue infinitum for PI people? I know that you can get nationality by descent but does it have a limit (e.g. in NZ I gave my boy NZ citizenship but he can't pass it along unless he changes his NZ status or has his kids in NZ or marries a kiwi). I ask because I wonder if there is a point when many NZ-born PIs may become ineligible for islands?
That is a WR rule , not a PI national rule. It ends at grandparent. So the Garden-Bachop's, unless closer PI descent on mothers side would be ineligible, as Stephen qualified for Samoa on a grandparent.
So, yes many will. But, there is still plenty incoming and refreshing annually. But, yeah, on the cusp now of NZers with Samoan last names not qualified for Samoa. (Bachop name is French Tahitian though, in my clumsy example)
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@snowy said in Pasifika SR team:
@gt12 said in Pasifika SR team:
Does nationality by descent continue infinitum for PI people? I know that you can get nationality by descent but does it have a limit (e.g. in NZ I gave my boy NZ citizenship but he can't pass it along unless he changes his NZ status or has his kids in NZ or marries a kiwi). I ask because I wonder if there is a point when many NZ-born PIs may become ineligible for islands?
No different to anyone else as far as I know. Still grandparents, and their country of birth / citizenship for eligibility.
Yeah, nationality for Samoans (at least) is supposedly:
Nationality
A person born outside Samoa may obtain citizenship by descent, provided that at least one of his or her parents is a Samoan citizen other than by descent, or that the parent in question is a Samoan citizen by descent who has lived in Samoa at various times for a combined period of three years.
World rugby is similar:
Which country can a player represent?
There are four ways a player can be eligible to represent a country at international level. They are:
They were born in the country.
They have a parent or grandparent who was born in the country.
They have lived in the country for 36 consecutive months (three years) to qualify on residency immediately before playing.
They have completed ten years of cumulative residence in the country before playing.[36 is now going to 60 months from Dec 31st)
So, either a parent born in the country or grandparent. I would assume that there will be a significant proportion of the PI population who at some point will no longer qualify for the PI nations. What about them?
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NZ Rugby should get a team in the Gallaher Premiership. Take all the financial advantages of being based in London with a partisan ex pat audience and pinch all their players from other GP teams who've previously invested heavily in getting NZ players there. Ring any bells?
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@gt12 said in Pasifika SR team:
So, either a parent born in the country or grandparent. I would assume that there will be a significant proportion of the PI population who at some point will no longer qualify for the PI nations. What about them?
@gt12 They wear Black (or piss off overseas). No different to me. I'm 5th generation Kiwi, not eligible for anyone else, and not good enough for the ABs (or anyone prepared to pay me to play rugby either).
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@shark said in Pasifika SR team:
NZ Rugby should get a team in the Gallaher Premiership. Take all the financial advantages of being based in London with a partisan ex pat audience and pinch all their players from other GP teams who've previously invested heavily in getting NZ players there. Ring any bells?
wasn't this floated at some point? Or was it just a chat around here?
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@mariner4life said in Pasifika SR team:
wasn't this floated at some point? Or was it just a chat around here?
The former. Think it was around the time that Saracens was a Saffa team, as I think @shark is alluding to.
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@snowy said in Pasifika SR team:
@gt12 said in Pasifika SR team:
So, either a parent born in the country or grandparent. I would assume that there will be a significant proportion of the PI population who at some point will no longer qualify for the PI nations. What about them?
@gt12 They wear Black (or piss off overseas). No different to me. I'm 5th generation Kiwi, not eligible for anyone else, and not good enough for the ABs (or anyone prepared to pay me to play rugby either).
I bring up this point with respect to @Stargazer 's point above (and I'm not having a go at all btw, I agree with the sentiment) that:
The concept of Nationhood in the Pacific is entirely different from that in the Western world. It's not determined by your nationality or citizenship, but by your cultural heritage. It's a big cultural difference and important to Pacific peoples. Trying to impose cultural concepts on other people is just plain wrong.That being as it may, there are still eligibility rules which will govern whether people who 'identify' as PI will actually be eligible. I would assume that those who are ineligible may want to play for MP in place of being able to represent the islands, while still being (ultimately) only available for NZ. If that happens, this system will do exactly the opposite of its intended function, and population dynamics being what they are, I can't see that not happening without greater immigration (e.g., for Samoans.I think it is capped?)
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@snowy said in Pasifika SR team:
@mariner4life said in Pasifika SR team:
wasn't this floated at some point? Or was it just a chat around here?
The former. Think it was around the time that Saracens was a Saffa team, as I think @shark is alluding to.
Nah I'm just drawing an analogy between what MP are doing and how something similar might work in the NH. And it would also to down like a cup of cold sick to the majority of local fans.
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@gt12 said in Pasifika SR team:
@snowy said in Pasifika SR team:
@gt12 said in Pasifika SR team:
So, either a parent born in the country or grandparent. I would assume that there will be a significant proportion of the PI population who at some point will no longer qualify for the PI nations. What about them?
@gt12 They wear Black (or piss off overseas). No different to me. I'm 5th generation Kiwi, not eligible for anyone else, and not good enough for the ABs (or anyone prepared to pay me to play rugby either).
I bring up this point with respect to @Stargazer 's point above (and I'm not having a go at all btw, I agree with the sentiment) that:
The concept of Nationhood in the Pacific is entirely different from that in the Western world. It's not determined by your nationality or citizenship, but by your cultural heritage. It's a big cultural difference and important to Pacific peoples. Trying to impose cultural concepts on other people is just plain wrong.That being as it may, there are still eligibility rules which will govern whether people who 'identify' as PI will actually be eligible. I would assume that those who are ineligible may want to play for MP in place of being able to represent the islands, while still being (ultimately) only available for NZ. If that happens, this system will do exactly the opposite of its intended function, and population dynamics being what they are, I can't see that not happening without greater immigration (e.g., for Samoans.I think it is capped?)
I have no problem with any of that - but different countries cultural heritage does not change any of the rules. I have Viking heritage I'm not allowed to play for Iceland.
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Dan Leo's off quoted misleading stat of approx 40% of all professional club rugby players being pacific Islanders. So, what is the solution? Add 2 more professional club teams, with WR subsidy, of almost exclusively pacific players. MP won't increase that percentage as they are just shifting ethnic payers from one team to another. But Drua may increase that percentage from 40% to approx 40.5%.
Well done us, form an orderly queue to pat us on the back as we have addressed the grievous problem of pacific under-representation in professional rugby. We've broken the 40% glass ceiling, yay. Job done, problem solved.
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@shark said in Pasifika SR team:
Nah I'm just drawing an analogy between what MP are doing and how something similar might work in the NH. And it would also to down like a cup of cold sick to the majority of local fans.
Indeed it would. The below not aimed at you, just questions.
What are the rules for London Irish for example? There aren't any are there? No Irish descent requirements? No limits on players? No nationality rules at all? Just a club. If we want another team (and I don't think that we should) it should just be another team.
