05-03-2014, 08:17 AM
Andy Burnett wrote
"As a footnote, I get the impression from speaking to others that it isn't an unwillingness, at all, to accept 'non-Scots' into the Scottish team, but rather a repeat of the whole Jacob 'Danish-Scottish-Danish' nonsense which worries us."
Just a few comments on this
1. If the eligibility rules prevented Andrew Greet from playing for Scotland those rules would be insane.
2. If SCO continues to exist then I will never play under another code; Impossible to prove I know but there it is.
3. I think the nature of nationality has changed a lot in the modern world. The Scots don't all live in Aberdeen, have Mac in front of their name and sport a ginger beard. There are different forms and different degrees of Scottishness. Establishing (fair) eligibility rules in these circumstances is very difficult.
Matt
"As a footnote, I get the impression from speaking to others that it isn't an unwillingness, at all, to accept 'non-Scots' into the Scottish team, but rather a repeat of the whole Jacob 'Danish-Scottish-Danish' nonsense which worries us."
Just a few comments on this
1. If the eligibility rules prevented Andrew Greet from playing for Scotland those rules would be insane.
2. If SCO continues to exist then I will never play under another code; Impossible to prove I know but there it is.
3. I think the nature of nationality has changed a lot in the modern world. The Scots don't all live in Aberdeen, have Mac in front of their name and sport a ginger beard. There are different forms and different degrees of Scottishness. Establishing (fair) eligibility rules in these circumstances is very difficult.
Matt