Dave Rennie and Rugby Australia are wrestling with what to do with Test eligibility rules at a time of unprecedented globalisation in the sport | geerob SMHsport
Nick Ryan has farewelled 13 players and a head coach from Sydney University Football Club since the end of the aborted 2021 Shute Shield competition.
“It is a very difficult landscape dealing with the economics and balancing out so many factors ... you can both understand where the players and agents are coming from, as well as being frustrated if you are the provinces or Rugby Australia.” Streamer Stan, which has the rights to Super Rugby Pacific and Wallabies Tests, this week announced it would show Japan’s new and improved League One, on top of the UK’s Premiership. Rugby’s strength has always been its global reach. Now it is a double-edged sword, at the very least.It is against this backdrop, with players leaving in their late teens and early 20s, that Wallabies coach Dave Rennie and RA’s rugby committee are trying to modernise Australia’s eligibility rules.
That system was dating badly by 2015, when Rennie’s predecessor, Michael Cheika, introduced the Giteau Law, so-called because it was crafted so Cheika could call into his World Cup squad Matt Giteau, who’d been playing in France since 2011. The new threshold for overseas selection was 60 Test caps and seven years of service, or a signed contract back in Australia after the current Test season.
Rugby fans occupy every position in between, from free marketeers to jersey loyalists. In the middle there are those who posit keeping the Giteau Law in place but giving the Wallabies coach a few free picks a year. Or, take the brakes off in a World Cup year only. Give ’em what they want, once every four years.
“We haven’t put any constraints on the clubs in my time here and nor will we this year , but next year we’ll certainly have a look at that. We’ll have far less influence if the majority of our players are playing in France. No control over the amount of time they play and no control over their program.
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