Kittwazzer wrote:
No sillier than claiming Bradley Wiggins as a Brit when he was born in Belgium!
As for Stephen Redgrave, not exactly a sport open to all is it?
Where are our Alis, Peles,Federers?
You just can't accept you were wrong anywhere, can you?
I never mentioned Wiggo.
What has sports being open to all got to do with anything?
What about Nick Faldo, Steve Davies (both called boring at their peak), Phil Taylor, Andy Murray, David Weir, Jonnie Peacock
This St Helens Defence is like a lollipopman at Brands Hatch -Ray French BBC TV Challenge Cup 1982
Kittwazzer wrote:
No sillier than claiming Bradley Wiggins as a Brit when he was born in Belgium!
As for Stephen Redgrave, not exactly a sport open to all is it?
Where are our Alis, Peles,Federers?
You just can't accept you were wrong anywhere, can you?
I never mentioned Wiggo.
What has sports being open to all got to do with anything?
What about Nick Faldo, Steve Davies (both called boring at their peak), Phil Taylor, Andy Murray, David Weir, Jonnie Peacock
You didn't mention 'Wiggo' someone else did!
You make up for that by mentioning a snooker player and a darts player in the same discussion about 'champions'
Phil 'The Power' Taylor no less. Ali, eat your heart out!
Kittwazzer wrote:
No sillier than claiming Bradley Wiggins as a Brit when he was born in Belgium!
As for Stephen Redgrave, not exactly a sport open to all is it?
Where are our Alis, Peles,Federers?
You just can't accept you were wrong anywhere, can you?
I never mentioned Wiggo.
What has sports being open to all got to do with anything?
What about Nick Faldo, Steve Davies (both called boring at their peak), Phil Taylor, Andy Murray, David Weir, Jonnie Peacock
You didn't mention 'Wiggo' someone else did!
You make up for that by mentioning a snooker player and a darts player in the same discussion about 'champions'
Phil 'The Power' Taylor no less. Ali, eat your heart out!
oooo very selective, you conveniently ignore all the others just to try and make your point, although I stand by the fact they are champions in their chosen sports.
and we digress just so you can pick and win an argument.
I stand by my original point that our game is sometimes ridiculed because of decisions like Chase being picked for England when he is an undesirable alien, or when Kylie Leuluai can go out on dual registration but Gelling apparently can't.
This St Helens Defence is like a lollipopman at Brands Hatch -Ray French BBC TV Challenge Cup 1982
I am not interested in point scoring, but I will never recognise a sport where the combatants can play with a pint in one hand and a cigarette smouldering in an ashtray!
Remember Cliff Lazarenko? He would famously sink 15 pints during a match and WIN. Darts isn't a sport. Its just something to pass the time away while you get pissed!
markill wrote:I thought sporting visas were given so that a player could play the sport over here, not tied to a particular club to the extent you're saying. If he is dual registered, he'll still be an employee of Wigan and will be playing for another team on Wigan's behalf in theory?? The system is poor if a rugby player is given a visa because he is employed to play rugby and under that contract of employment he plays rugby.
Is there such a thing as a 'sporting visa'? I understand it to be a working visa for which the application would require exact details of what he will be doing and for whom!
I don't know the law but i remember reading about the Hendre Fourie stuff and a sports visa was mentioned - I've found the article I read about it on BBC site and in it he says: "If I had remained on a sports people visa for another two years, I would have got residency, but unless someone is willing to give me another contract, that is not going to happen."
That just suggests someone needs to give him a contract and if he is playing rugby league under a wigan contract I don't understand why that would prevent Wigan letting him
play for another club under that contarct.
Like I say though, I don't know the laws but I was basing the sporting visa thing on what I'd seen.
