Ben Turner For Wales?

taffthefish · Feb 4, 2012

Clingo, I saw your criteria after I posted and thought "bugger, read the whole thread first". I was going to post further but you saved me the trouble
Sound criteria and argument for selecting "Welsh" youth.

ealing_ayatollah · Feb 4, 2012

clingo said: ↑

I fully concede that in many respects I am stuck in the past and my opinion on this is a million miles away from the modern ways of competitive sport.

For me, qualifying for a country should have one of the following qualifying criteria:
1. Born in the country you are going to represent.
2. One or both parents are from the country.
3. You moved to the country before your career started.
4. Be proud to represent your country regardless of success or failures.

The club game is now all about money, so isn't the international game the platform to retain some integrity in the game? For me, there is enough of a "success is all" culture in the club game, and trying to persuade players to play for a country that they have no real affiliation to just to get some short term success, and just to improve the profile of the player, is counter productive.

For me, I think we should be playing Welshmen in our team, and if they fall below the quality of other countries, then we should be adressing the problem at grass root level. We are a small country, and until we work on the development of the game in Wales, we're going to have to come to terms with where we are. What is really important is that all Welshmen get behing their national side and play their part in creating a pr

oud, well saupported country that gets behind it's own fellow countrymen and women.

Ooh! I went right off.
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Agreed

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