Question about SOO selection?

Ok this is how it is. If you have Scottish heritage and you play your first senior game for Australia then you can play for either country. If you have NZ heritage and played your first senior game for NZ you can ONLY play for NZ.

If you get chosen for your heritage side and you play one game for them, then you have to play for them unless you get chosen for your first senior club game country then you have a choice of staying at your heritage side or your first senior club game country.If you choose to swap from one country to another you have to wait one year before playing with them. So if you are a NZer and play one game for them but next year you get chosen for Australia(first senior game) and if you WANT to play for Australia you have to wait one year.

SoO is a different story. If your first senior game was in QLD(doesn't matter what heritage or anything) you can play for QLD. And vise-versa for NSW

There's a little interesting bit to add in to this.. they made the rule that after the world cup, all players that have played for other countries, tonga, fiji, etc jennings, Hayne etc, get a clean slate written for them so they can play for australia again if they want, no stand down period. im not sure if this happened last world cup but that was the rule this world cup, so it encouraged more quality players at world cup (i thought Hayne was player of tournament playing for fiji) with out them jeprodisring there chance of playing for australia or whoever again. Interesting to note moimoi and tuiaki not playing for tonga as they played for nz within the year BEFORE the world cup. the clean slate rule applies AFTER the world cup, Hayne didnt play for aussie for over a year or whatever.. jeez complicated yeah?

Bongopic, why answer a question you know nothing about.

K Hunt, T Carroll, W Mason, B Thorn who have all played in recent years were all born in NZ. N Costigan, A Lam born in PNG. Petero was born in Fiji. A Kaufusi in Tonga. T Tahu in Melbourne

Broncos hit the nail on the head, it doesn't matter where you were born its which club you played for where you played your first "senior age 16" game of League, this determines if you play for NSW or QLD. From there other Nationalities come into account, mainly NZ or Aus.

The problem with what Union does is that teams exploit it. There was about 48 New Zealand born players playing in the 2007 RWC and only 23 of them were playing for New Zealand. That's not good for Rugby Union.

I agree that the 1 year wait thing they do in rugby league is also bad. Smaller teams would be unable to hold onto their players.

The best solution is to just make the waiting period longer (like 3-4 years). You wouldn't have the problem league has with players changing teams every year. You also wouldn't have the problem Union has with teams picking players so they can't represent other countries.

It's a rule that is adhered to by its exceptions. If it was to be used fairly, then Hayne should not have been playing SOO because he was still unavailable to play for Australia until after seasons end as he represented Fiji in the RLWC last year.

Mate...Agree with Bronco's, you have a 1yr cooling off period, before you play for another country. I understand your point regarding SOO, as its deemed as selection for the Kangaroos, however, Hayne would qualify, as by end season he is cleared to play for Australia.

Another thing, union has the same policy - however I think its 2yr cooling off period before a player can play for their other chosen nation.

you know ingles played his first senior game in nsw except queensland cheated and said he played in queensland first sono whe's a queenslander

As i have said before where ever you are born wether it's Q.L.D.or N.S.W that's where you play.but you have to be BORN in either to be able to PLAY. That stops any argument as to where they play it's BLACK AND WHITE.