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Nigel Vagana Quote "Right now, footballers who make themselves eligible for Australia can earn around $20,000 extra a year playing Origin footy. And there's talk of that rising to $50,000."
"But if they stick with New Zealand, it's nothing. Zero. So while Origin footy is supposed to be all about passion, for a lot of (Polynesian) players it's being seen as a sound business decision, a way to better provide for their families. It threatens the future of international footy'"
He has a good point, it must be hard for someone from New Zealand, Samoa, Tonga, PNG etc or even the UK, to choose to represent their home country over Aus, when they could be wiping tens of thousands of $'s off their salary by not being allowed to play origin for it. The simple answer would be to allow players to represent other countries, but play origin if the have lived in QLD/NSW for 3 years or something. Im struggling to see an argument against this? Why wont they let it happen? It would make the origin games even better than they currently are as it would be the best players in the world not just the best players available for Aus.
Quote Vagana is also pushing for the establishment of a two-tier structure that would allow Test players from Australia, New Zealand and England (all Tier One nations) to represent emerging countries if not selected for their first choice.
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Also an interesting point, it would make the smaller nations stronger. Brough to play for Scotland if not selected for England, the same with Wigans Irish hooker etc
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Nigel Vagana Quote "Right now, footballers who make themselves eligible for Australia can earn around $20,000 extra a year playing Origin footy. And there's talk of that rising to $50,000."
"But if they stick with New Zealand, it's nothing. Zero. So while Origin footy is supposed to be all about passion, for a lot of (Polynesian) players it's being seen as a sound business decision, a way to better provide for their families. It threatens the future of international footy'"
He has a good point, it must be hard for someone from New Zealand, Samoa, Tonga, PNG etc or even the UK, to choose to represent their home country over Aus, when they could be wiping tens of thousands of $'s off their salary by not being allowed to play origin for it. The simple answer would be to allow players to represent other countries, but play origin if the have lived in QLD/NSW for 3 years or something. Im struggling to see an argument against this? Why wont they let it happen? It would make the origin games even better than they currently are as it would be the best players in the world not just the best players available for Aus.
Quote Vagana is also pushing for the establishment of a two-tier structure that would allow Test players from Australia, New Zealand and England (all Tier One nations) to represent emerging countries if not selected for their first choice.
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Also an interesting point, it would make the smaller nations stronger. Brough to play for Scotland if not selected for England, the same with Wigans Irish hooker etc
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I get the feeling NSW and QLD are trying to push a few through quickly in case NZ SOO is a success.
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hardly a $, rumoured to be $50k agame next season, that's $150k a year extra, $150k or occasional tests for NZ for $5k a game?
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Don't understand what all the fuss is about didn't all the countries in the southern hemisphere join together last year to become The Great Kingdom of Exilia?
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| Quote ="JB Down Under"hardly a $, rumoured to be $50k agame next season, that's $150k a year extra, $150k or occasional tests for NZ for $5k a game?'"
yeah but they don't won't get $50k a game.......after taxes,loyalty fund payments,paying for family members to see the game,hotel,travel etc.... they'll be lucky to see $10k |
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Rubbish even this game he will walk away with $20k in his pocket, by next year it will be close to double that. Then add the value of his next contract as soo players can command bigger contracts. Reality is in the modern game majority of it is about cold hard cash.
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