Jim Sport Go: Time for World Rugby to give back to the Islands

(Photosport)
(Photosport)

Gordon Tietjens' move to Samoa has unearthed the old chestnut of international rugby’s eligibility rules.

Should players be allowed to play for a second country if it is the country of their birth?

It's time for World Rugby to give back to the Island nations and allow talented players, like Joe Rokocoko for Fiji for example, to return and contribute to their native homeland as they so desire once their career has run its course with their original nation.

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