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The Feral Goat wrote:Good stuff ZT.
Does Bresler not become SQ next summer as well, thought he joined same time as Burleigh, or is he already tied to Namibia?
gowrie wrote:Also, are we sure Miller's still going to London Scottish? I remember Robbins was also announced as going before the deal went south, are they part of the resurrected arrangement?
zt1903 wrote:The Feral Goat wrote:Good stuff ZT.
Does Bresler not become SQ next summer as well, thought he joined same time as Burleigh, or is he already tied to Namibia?
You're right. I thought Bresler was tied but he's not.
biffer wrote:zt1903 wrote:The Feral Goat wrote:Good stuff ZT.
Does Bresler not become SQ next summer as well, thought he joined same time as Burleigh, or is he already tied to Namibia?
You're right. I thought Bresler was tied but he's not.
I've always been confused by that. It's not as if Namibia are replete with players who play at pro level, so I've always assumed he must have politely declined.
zt1903 wrote:He probably had his eye on representing SA before he came here.
Frenchy wrote:zt1903 wrote:He probably had his eye on representing SA before he came here.
Has confirmed this in interviews since he moved to Edinburgh. Will try to remember to dig it up later, but the gist was that Namibia is just somewhere his family happened to come from - South Africa was home.
Tichtheid wrote:Frenchy wrote:zt1903 wrote:He probably had his eye on representing SA before he came here.
Has confirmed this in interviews since he moved to Edinburgh. Will try to remember to dig it up later, but the gist was that Namibia is just somewhere his family happened to come from - South Africa was home.
I missed this article at the time, you're right Frenchy, it seems his family went back to Namibia at the appropriate time so he could be born there
http://www.scotsman.com/sport/rugby-uni ... -1-3470809
Article wrote:“If the Springboks’ selectors are watching, are following my career, all I can do is play my best. I can’t phone them up. It’s all on their terms.”
Why didn’t he just target Namibia, the country of his birth, who have already booked their place in Rugby World Cup 2015? His cousin Tinus du Plessis turned out for them during the 2011 World Cup in New Zealand and did enough to earn a contract at Wasps. “The thing is, I was only really born there,” Bresler replies. “I’ve got family there, a lot of people ask me this, but I am actually a South African boy, that is the team I will support in the World Cup.
“I don’t know much about Namibia, except my whole family being born there, but my heart lies in South Africa.”
So if his heart lies in South Africa, what does Bresler think of turning out in the navy blue of Scotland one day?
“If that option comes up I will definitely look at it.”
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