France to stop picking residency qualified players
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Good decision, with the financial muscle of the Top 14 clubs and the fairly useless French academies it was becoming a bit of a farce for the French national team.
It's right to extend the qualifying period to 5 years and I think from an Irish perspective (or any country) there should be a limit of project players to say, 3 in a starting XV, 4 in a matchday squad and 5 in a 31-man RWC squad.
It's right to extend the qualifying period to 5 years and I think from an Irish perspective (or any country) there should be a limit of project players to say, 3 in a starting XV, 4 in a matchday squad and 5 in a 31-man RWC squad.
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Re: France to stop picking residency qualified players
Gareth Anscome's Ma is Welsh. He is not qualified on residency.
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Good on them. It was getting a bit ridiculous with all the non French players in their squad.
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Domestic political posturing in an election year and nothing more.
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Looked up what you have to do to get a French passport - need to show you've got French nationality, and to apply for that you've got to have been habitually resident in France for 5 years. So effectively they're just jumping to that longer residency period before they're pushed by World Rugby into it?
Minimum 5 years for naturalisation in Ireland too btw
Minimum 5 years for naturalisation in Ireland too btw
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as I posted elsewhere (wahhhh) apparently the only player this stops from getting more caps in Antonio
Did have a feeling though the French would go down some sort of route in this regard
Did have a feeling though the French would go down some sort of route in this regard
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I think this is just spin to be honest.
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Of course it is, Laporte is the president of the FFR, he doesn't actually make policy, no more than Stephen Hilditch does. Hes a high profile member of a centre right political party looking to move to the right in an election year to grab some of the floating FN voters - what better than 'France for the French'.offshorerules wrote:I think this is just spin to be honest.
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Existing international players are grandfathered in.simonokeeffe wrote:as I posted elsewhere (wahhhh) apparently the only player this stops from getting more caps in Antonio
Did have a feeling though the French would go down some sort of route in this regard
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Think I get ya, so Antonio doesnt have to cool his heels for a year?ronk wrote:Existing international players are grandfathered in.simonokeeffe wrote:as I posted elsewhere (wahhhh) apparently the only player this stops from getting more caps in Antonio
Did have a feeling though the French would go down some sort of route in this regard
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