gowrie wrote:I think it does mean that Bresler's no longer SQ, but IMO that doesn't mean much for Scotland. He might have picked up a couple of caps when there were injuries, but don't think he ever really would have challenged for the first choice 23.
Yup, I suppose technically you could make the argument your primary / main residence remains in Edinburgh and you are commuting (as loads of people do in London from Edinburgh week in week out), but the role of a professional rugby player is hardly 9-5, 5 days a week is it so I think it's safe to say that moving south will extinguish his qualification. Shame after being invited into the AI training squad this year.
8.1 Subject to Regulation 8.2, a Player may only play for the senior fifteen-a-side National Representative Team, the next senior fifteen-a-side National Representative Team and the senior National Representative Sevens Team of the Union of the country with which the Player has a genuine, close, credible and established national link in which:
(a) he was born; or
(b) one parent or grandparent was born; or
(c)
he has completed thirty six / sixty¹ consecutive months of Residence immediately preceding the time of playing; or
(d) he has completed ten years of cumulative Residence preceding the time of playing.
Residence means the place or location in which a Player has his primary and permanent home and Resident shall be construed accordingly.
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