8 nations,

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well said colin.     dave was a lovely guy religious family and all that.    his family lived all over the world.      he could have played for England,  but had no chance because the where playing great rugby at the time, :eek..      wales where playing shit so he didn't come here,.        , so he went to Scotland who where doing okay .    then someone found something to say his claim to Scotland wasn't valid.      I spoke to him before he went he honestly belived  he had Scottish family.        but because he played for you that was the end of any international  carear .    poor dave lost in the wilderness.

That's an absolute shambles, there's people that play for various countries in various sports down to their great grandparents being from that certain country, as far as i thought once you've played for a country you can't play for any other country, but I'm sure somewhere I heard that someone had done just that, I also think it's a possibility that they might of played amateur for the one country before going to the other so that might of been the clause.
It's a real shame that happened to him, I bet though he's not the only one, foccin rules sometimes are a disgrace :groan