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International caps are all at sixes and Sevens

COLIN BOAG

The recent Rugby League World Cup showed just what a joke the 13-man game’s eligibility rules are – basically they’re not far short of simply telling a player that, irrespective of where he’s played in the past, he can choose which nation he’d like to represent. The worry is that Union is in danger of falling into the same trap.
It all went pear-shaped when Sevens became an Olympic sport, because the IOC has different eligibility rules. No matter which country a player has previously played for, as long as he’s not represented them in the pre...

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