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Originally Posted by Hurricane
I think with all international sports only 30% of your team should be foreign born - otherwise you get situations like the Canadian cricket team where everyone grew up in India.
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Agree it does get farcical sometimes (GB won the ice hockey gold in the 1936 Olympics with a team composed entirely of Canadian born or raised players with Brit parents or grandparents) but "foreign born" is too blunt a tool to measure IMHO.
Andrew Mehrtens was born in SA, after all and it'd be madness to say he wasn't a Kiwi.
I think upbringing is more important than birth.
Man, the Japanese look tiny in the line out. It's like a "masters v pupils" games.