International Rugby

'Don't pick and choose': To'o's Samoa decision sparks fierce eligibility debate.

“If I wanted to play for Scotland, I would have chose Scotland but I gave up the right to play for Queensland, but I didn’t chose Queensland because it meant more to me, so you have to pick what means more to you and my family, I wanted to play for Queensland and Australia.” “You have to opt to play for Australia first, if you then miss out on the Kangaroos squad, lets say Brian To’o, he is one of the form wingers in the comp, he would probably be in the squad, but if he then misses out I don’t have a problem with it.” “Nothing is going to take away from that, I think you can still play for NSW or Queensland and still not play for Australia and choose to play for Samoa or Tonga,” Graham said. “You don’t know who you are going to be when you grow up, you don’t know what opportunities are going to be presented to you, I think it is a great thing and I think Origin has gone past that it is a trial for the Australian team. “You play Origin, you play for Australia and if you don’t get selected you decide whether or not you go back to your national side.” “You don’t choose that you are going to play for another country and rule yourself out for Australia. I am sorry, but otherwise we are going to have James Graham playing State of Origin but no, I am going to play for England.