"I have Scottish heritage and represent my grandma" | The Scotland star that's represented Australia 

his dad is tongan his maternal grandmother was scottish and he is born in australia - really stretching that ownership thing in NH rugby

@@bodybalanceU2 if his maternal grandmother was Scottish that would make his mum half Scottish . Whats probably weirder is when we proclaim someone is an AUssie or nz when they wernt born there or just first generation . Where is the cut off point for you ?

@@samoday2992 no what is weird is that brits refuse to believe people of colour are born and bred in nz when nz is a brown country - they think it is a english country filled up with brits yet you lot are quite happy to claim an aussie or nz as british because one grandparent is from britain

@@samoday2992 Anything other than a parent you can't really claim their heritage from, my own grandad is Irish I certainly don't think for a moment I'm anything close to such despite my very Irish surname.

Hugely proud to have people with zero genetic links to your people....telling you what to do?! And you think that situation is organic, inevitable and in nooooo waaayy by design? What a load of absolute C.O.P.E. Plato and Socrates were right.

Well alot of NZers have scottish names but aint scottish, sure got scottish heritage but generations back now.

@@SWJ-xp6ld thats lovely-but Sione has a born and bred in Scotland granny and so qualifies under World Rugby laws, so I’m not sure of the relevance?

@@Trockodile245 Well that dont mean hes scottish though does it, I have a scottish name an scottish heritage but im not scottish, sure the rules are what they are I think it should only be parent heritage law though, but its better than the 3 now 5 year residency, which should only apply if that person comes to the country before they are 18, not some 20plus year olds like them 3 pro kiwi players AKi/Gibson/lowe that play for ireland that is wrong. Some Irish lad just missed out because they decided to import some pros.

@@SWJ-xp6ld well no, he’s Australian nationality with Scottish heritage, who lives in Scotland 🤷‍♀️Your point is that having a Scottish name doesn’t make you Scottish-not having a Scottish name doesn’t make you not Scottish.

So does Richie McCaw an every other kiwi with scottish heritage.

@@SWJ-xp6ld Irrelevant! Richie MaCaw and every other kiwi with Scottish heritage doesn’t qualify to play for Scotland. They might have Scottish blood but they are not Scottish. This guy’s grandmother was. This guy qualifies to represent Scotland. That’s the difference.

By the sounds of it, he has a cocktail of heritage.

So 7 is the cutoff point ?

7 lol, 16 an under, at what point would the player be a homegrown rugby product, honestly probably 20 an under since his best training an experience will be above that age, I think homegrown should be in the 16-18 an under bracket. Being born in a country is too limiting, I know tons of kiwis born in aussie to NZ parents, sure they are native/aussie born but moved back to NZ as kids whatever some 8-10 years old, an aussie wouldnt even let us get aussie citizenship anyway.

Only full blooded Aussies are the Abo

Saltyyyyy 🤣🖕🏽

Well hes ethnic tongan, aussie national, got some european ethnicity too, just a mixed bag really, like most people, is being scottish even a ethnicity or just a nationality like a new zealander or aussie.

How hes playing for scotland through his grandparent heritage, hes aussie born an raised to a aussie mum an tongan dad, sure hes not really scottish though even if his grandparent was, but they are the rules, look at the island teams 2023 world cup, nearly all their players are NZ born an bred, qualify through parent/GP but no one wants to be up in arms with that, he qualifies the same way.