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Posted July 12, 2015 05:47 · last edited July 12, 2015 05:50

Ryan54 wrote:

Bullion wrote:

Jeff Vader wrote:

Ok so here is a hypothetical based on Holloways post in the Herald that needs disproving:

John Smith arrives in NZ aged 3 from USA and is now aged 15 and is pretty bloody good at football - catching the eye of national age group coaches. He has no parents or grandparents of NZ decent and was not born here. Is it being posed that even though he is has lived here pretty much his whole life and for all intents is a Kiwi, he cannot play for NZ for another 8 years until he hits 23?

If this is the case then there will be a lot of people in trouble. Surely this cannot be correct.

i think holloway missed a point 5, if he got citizenship over 18 then a 5 yr stand down on top of any citizenship requirements before then - if wynne had moved to nz a year or 2 earlier and gotten citizenship before 18 he could be sweet. That's my reading of what CT posted. Mabil moved to oz 9 yrs ago and only 19 yet representing them at age group level - he would have gotten citizenship before 18 the only difference to wynne.

Right and that would explain why Roux is eligible (assuming he got citizenship before 18). The rules seem a bit stupid regardless. It also seems incredibly that Wynne has been allowed to get this far in his playing career.

so if Wynne has citizenship before 18, he should be ok too then...

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Jeff Vader edited July 12, 2015 05:50
Ryan54 wrote:
Bullion wrote:
Jeff Vader wrote:

Ok so here is a hypothetical based on Holloways post in the Herald that needs disproving:

John Smith arrives in NZ aged 3 from USA and is now aged 15 and is pretty bloody good at football - catching the eye of national age group coaches. He has no parents or grandparents of NZ decent and was not born here. Is it being posed that even though he is has lived here pretty much his whole life and for all intents is a Kiwi, he cannot play for NZ for another 8 years until he hits 23?

If this is the case then there will be a lot of people in trouble. Surely this cannot be correct.

i think holloway missed a point 5, if he got citizenship over 18 then a 5 yr stand down on top of any citizenship requirements before then - if wynne had moved to nz a year or 2 earlier and gotten citizenship before 18 he could be sweet. That's my reading of what CT posted. Mabil moved to oz 9 yrs ago and only 19 yet representing them at age group level - he would have gotten citizenship before 18 the only difference to wynne.

Right and that would explain why Roux is eligible (assuming he got citizenship before 18). The rules seem a bit stupid regardless. It also seems incredibly that Wynne has been allowed to get this far in his playing career.

so if Wynne has citizenship before 18, he should be ok to then...