+x+x+xI feel I have to say it out loud at some point. I can't help but feel I'd rather lose with Duke than win with Cummings, Souttar and even Boyle BUT i know if one of them score and we get a point I'll forget I ever said this (for at least a few weeks) Because Duke is ‘more ‘Australian’? JMac then over Cummings too? More? I don’t get the quote marks around ‘more Australian’?
this isn’t like saying my family that moved to Australia in the 50s aren’t Australian.
It’s not like me saying Mabil born in a refugee camp and his family moving here for a better life isn’t Australian.
Had Boyle or Souttar ever even heard of Australia? Had Karacic?
At least Cummins has lived here for 6 months now.
Look it is what it is and I get it but it still doesn’t sit 100% well with me that’s all.
Unlike your fine self I’m not 100% sure about every opinion or belief I hold and sometimes question things. It must be nice to be so sure of yourself and so loud about it. More power to you.
I agree it would be ideal if each player that played for Australia was Aussie born and bred, but the world is not like that these days. Look at Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang. A Gabonese international, born in France to a Gabonese father (admittedly also a Gabonese international footballer) and Spanish mother. He apparently spent his childhood in Italy, and then started his career with AC Milan. I doubt he played any football in Gabon until he was an international player. A lot of other African players would have a similar story (born in Europe and never played in the country they now represent), as well as for example players in the Jamaican national team born in England.
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