Reply to thread

Message: [QUOTE="JaseC, post: 2418305, member: 7867"] I don't want to direct this post at Broncoman individually, but I just want to ask the forum something; When a young guy from NZ, Fiji, England, wherever moves to Queensland at a relatively young age (16 years old or less) don't they, as a new Australian, have the right to plead allegiance to their new chosen country? It seems to have shades of racism to say otherwise. My example is, if a kid moves here from Mongolia at the age of 15. His family move to Queensland, he enjoys footy and has talent enough to play senior football and is therefore eligible for Queensland. Nobody would care and he would be celebrated as a new Queenslander. The Footy Show would probably do a bloody special on him! :haha: Now a 15 year old kid from Auckland moves here with his family. He has a heap of mates from school and his JRLFC and wants to play with them when he gets selected for Queensland Schoolboys. Why is he all of a sudden a "traitor"? Why do other people get to say to him, "No you are not Australian (Queensland or NSW) you are Kiwi"? Seems racist and if he didn't play football but drove a forklift for work, we would all be crying if he didn't choose to become an Australian. Now a 15 year old kid from NSW moves to Gold Coast with his family. He plays with his mates at school and with his mates at his JRLFC. When he goes through the grades and makes the chance play at senior level he plays in Queensland. Who are we to say, "No you are not a Queenslander. Forget all your friends that you have chosen to play, you have to play for NSW because we decided your not "real enough" to be a Queenslander". Sorry that this was long-winded. I'm just trying to say that kids are impressionable and want to play where there friends are. Unless a player deliberately requests to play for his original state or country, why shouldn't they be allowed to play for the state they were in when they went senior? I would rather a Kiwi become a naturalised Aussie and play for NSW then be just another Kiwi living in Australia all their life still claiming to be a Kiwi. [/QUOTE]

Verification

Active Now

No members online now.

Total: 177 (members: 0, guests: 177)

Reply to thread

Log in

Active Now