English Ringers, mate!

[vic_orthdox]

Merged with the other major CC thread regarding "imported" players.

 

[HeathDavisSpeed]

Fed up with this utter bull****. Go and read some tabloids or your own faeces encrusted bog roll. So tired of this rubbish being brought up every time England win a game.

 

[Kylez]

Good to see brockley has taken the loss well. Must have thought this up inbetween his masquerading as Michael Di Venuto on Facebook.

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Nice.

 

[flibbertyjibber]

No sour grapes from the convicts i see.

 

[zaremba]

Archie Jackson, Clarrie Grimmett and Kepler Wessells say g'day

 

[GGG]

Rules have got to change as simple as that, raised in a country then play for them or tough luck, Andrew Strauss should and is eligible to play for England, Kevin Pieterson should not.

 

[Jono]

^ I'd say you're a hater.

I very rarely go out of my way to defend the English team, but I'm behind them on this issue.

 

[zaremba]

Rules have got to change as simple as that, raised in a country then play for them or tough luck, Andrew Strauss should and is eligible to play for England, Kevin Pieterson should not.

What does "raised" mean?

What if you're born in (say) a military family and don't live in any one country for more than a year at a time?

 

[Jarquis]

Wherever you are when you have your 12th birthday obviously

 

[grecian]

Wherever you are when you have your 12th birthday obviously

I reckon it should be on your eleventh year, 233 days 4 hours 22 minutes and 6 seconds into your life, it's the only fair away to stop it being arbitrary, if you happen to be on holiday to majorca at the time so be it.

 

[Jarquis]

What if your flight's delayed ?! :'(

 

[grecian]

What if your flight's delayed ?! :'(

dems da breaks, mind you you could be in international airspace, that would be handy.

 

[Quaggas]

^ I'd say you're a hater.

I very rarely go out of my way to defend the English team, but I'm behind them on this issue.

Would you allow active poaching? NZ scouts, say, goes to, say, the Indian academy (or whatever) and give boat loads of money and citizenship to promising individuals.

In fact, why not recruit active national team members? Sehwag, for example, give him 100million USD plus NZ citizenship. Next game he trots out for the NZ test team. Has to stay NZer for say the next 5 years, or the dough reduced.

Once the smaller unions (money-wise) have been reduced to 3rd stringers, we can start talks about transferring revenue, etc, "for the good of the game."

 

[Neil Pickup]

All rather far-fetched, I feel.

Now if someone started thinking about getting the empire back together...

 

[Top_Cat]

All rather far-fetched, I feel.

Exactly. The doomsday scenarios are little but hot air.

 

[Autobahn]

Would you allow active poaching? NZ scouts, say, goes to, say, the Indian academy (or whatever) and give boat loads of money and citizenship to promising individuals.

In fact, why not recruit active national team members? Sehwag, for example, give him 100million USD plus NZ citizenship. Next game he trots out for the NZ test team. Has to stay NZer for say the next 5 years, or the dough reduced.

Once the smaller unions (money-wise) have been reduced to 3rd stringers, we can start talks about transferring revenue, etc, "for the good of the game."

Well one the qualification period is like 4 years and you have to spent pretty much half of the year in the country playing cricket to qualify, so unless Sehwag is willing to put his career pretty much on hold for 4 years that's not going to happen. And i doubt many cricket boards could afford the kind of money that you would need to "poach" people.

Now i might be wrong with my understanding of the qualification period so anybody feel free to pull me up about this.

The only case i'm not sure about is Dirk Nannes but my best guess is that having grown up in Aus but retained a dutch passport he was allowed to play for both of the teams in a relatively short period of time as was he was effectively qualified for both teams

 

[Quaggas]

Why is it a doomsday scenario? Also, the four year residency rule is just that - a rule that can be unmade.

I'm not arguing that things will or should go this (extreme?) way, but clearly everyone has their own very arbitrary line as to what is acceptable and what not. If you think that line was not crossed yet, presumably you would not mind liberalizing the rules epsilon more. Hence my hypotheticals.

One could make a good case for more mobility - for example, it would and has made the international scene more competitive. On the other hand, some fans might not like supporting a team filled with "mercenaries," and boards would not appreciate the wasted development costs only to see them vanish down a giant "hand-eye-coordination drain."

 

[HeathDavisSpeed]

In fact, why not recruit active national team members? Sehwag, for example, give him 100million USD plus NZ citizenship. Next game he trots out for the NZ test team. Has to stay NZer for say the next 5 years, or the dough reduced.

The day that New Zealand Cricket can offer the sort of money that would convince a decent, or even up-and-coming Indian player to shift teams, places of residence etc. is a day that I eat my hat. I very much doubt that England or Australia would have the money or inclination to do what you suggest. Utter bull****.

 

[Jono]

Would you allow active poaching? NZ scouts, say, goes to, say, the Indian academy (or whatever) and give boat loads of money and citizenship to promising individuals.

In fact, why not recruit active national team members? Sehwag, for example, give him 100million USD plus NZ citizenship. Next game he trots out for the NZ test team. Has to stay NZer for say the next 5 years, or the dough reduced.

Once the smaller unions (money-wise) have been reduced to 3rd stringers, we can start talks about transferring revenue, etc, "for the good of the game."

Would love to see more brown buggers in the Aussie outfit personally








If Australia poached Rohit and Kohli I'd probably support them

 

[Kylez]

Would love to see more brown buggers in the Aussie outfit personally








If Australia poached Rohit and Kohli I'd probably support them

Usman Khawaja will be in one soon.