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robdinsdale wrote:Re. the young player issue. I know in the past it's been a perpetual complaint and everyone wants to see young Scottish players getting developed, but this season we've been putting out teams that are on average younger than I can ever remember from Embra.
dolf_lundgren wrote:I would think in this case the medical would be more important than usual. Might even be to make sure we can get insurance as much as anything.
The Samoa thing is interesting, it's a carrot that AP and French teams are less likely to offer.
Friday Knight Lights wrote:Speaking of Fruean sounds like he did have a medical here but has other options and not ScottishQ:
http://www.bathchronicle.co.uk/robbie-f ... story.html
Weird the medical wasn't a part of the terms, I wonder how often players have a medical without being far along in the signing process. I only know football medicals which seem to be help when a move has been agreed and it is the final hurdle. Wonder if rugby is different.
dolf_lundgren wrote:The Samoa thing is interesting, it's a carrot that AP and French teams are less likely to offer.
Tichtheid wrote:The article says he is tied to New Zealand, I thought the 7s loophole had been closed when Armitage was talking about playing for France via the 7s?
disco wrote:Tichtheid wrote:The article says he is tied to New Zealand, I thought the 7s loophole had been closed when Armitage was talking about playing for France via the 7s?
It's a requirement to be consistent with the Olympic Charter that eligibility rules have to be harmonised. So as long as 7s is an Olympic sport there will be this anomaly. The only difference for the Rio games was the requirement for an 18 month stand down period from playing for the country the player was previously captured by (this was due to the short timescale from when the regulations were developed to the 2016 games). It's now a standard 3 year stand down period.
I believe he would only need to appear in one Olympic Qualifying Event (or the Games themselves) assuming he meets the other criteria (3 year stand down period plus ationality of the country he plays for - usually requiring a passport).
Edinburgh, meanwhile, are still in talks with Robbie Fruean over a possible move from Bath. The 28-year-old centre had a medical in the Scottish capital last week but the prospective deal is complicated by Bath’s keenness to hold onto him, as well as his own medical history.
The former Crusaders back underwent several rounds of heart surgery in New Zealand, first after contracting rheumatic fever and then following the diagnosis of an irregular heartbeat.
He was released from the Chiefs by incoming Glasgow coach Dave Rennie, but went on to impress for Hawke’s Bay in the Mitre 10 Cup and was summoned to the Rec last October. Todd Blackadder and Tabai Matson both worked with Fruean at Crusaders, and despite him suffering several injuries in his early months in the Premiership, he’s been offered an extension to the deal which ends in May.
Friday Knight Lights wrote: On a side note I really like the Force - key Wallabies injured, depth being tested all over the pitch, apparently facing being cut by the ARU and a team of limited players but they scrap for everything. Quality of finishing lets them down but I would like Edinburgh next year to resemble that Force team - you'll never accuse them of shirking.
Friday Knight Lights wrote:Also I recorded the Western Force game and watched it this morning, Carmichael put in another busy performance. They don't lift him at the lineout though so I wonder if he can't jump.
joe soap wrote:Friday Knight Lights wrote: On a side note I really like the Force - key Wallabies injured, depth being tested all over the pitch, apparently facing being cut by the ARU and a team of limited players but they scrap for everything. Quality of finishing lets them down but I would like Edinburgh next year to resemble that Force team - you'll never accuse them of shirking.
amazing what the threat of losing your job can do for a player. Edinburgh would do well to remind players that their jobs are on the line - all of them, not just the fringe players - instead of awarding 3 year contracts.
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