Wales Online's Carolyn Hitt looks at the dispute between the WRU and the SRU over Steve Shingler.
"I can’t get the concept of a Welsh player who has to be forced to play for Wales. Deciding who to support can be much simpler than deciding who to play for.
There are many differences between those who play rugby and the rest of us who simply watch it.
They have six packs, we have party packs. They know the laws of the breakdown, we just pretend we know the laws of the breakdown. They eat in Nando’s, we can eat in Krispy Kreme.
But if there’s one issue that is much simpler for fans than players, it is identity. We don’t need to refer to IRB Regulation 2 to decide whether we are “eligible” to support Wales. It’s a given. Born here, raised here, done all your supporting here – you’re hardly going to start wearing a kilt, crooning Swing Low or smuggling a cockerel under your pacamac come the start of the Six Nations are you?"
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