alexscottislegend 2,044 Posted August 20, 2019 Share Posted August 20, 2019 3 hours ago, craig said: Correct Sadly, no. The 4 home nations agreement only accepts the residency rule only if the player has been educated in Scotland for 5 years. In the case of Tav, he was born in England but came here as an adult. A shame as he would solve our right back problem at a stroke. Lazy journalism from our old friend the Daily Record. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
alexscottislegend 2,044 Posted August 20, 2019 Share Posted August 20, 2019 (edited) 4 hours ago, ian1964 said: I believe Tav qualifies to play for Scotland if he is here next season! I think?? See above! Edited August 20, 2019 by alexscottislegend 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
alexscottislegend 2,044 Posted August 20, 2019 Share Posted August 20, 2019 5 hours ago, Scott7 said: One Irish grandparent. Are the other three Scots? I assume mother and father are Scots. The qualification rules are nonsense. ROI team wouldn’t have performed as well as they have done for twenty plus years without all their Englishmen So true. 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
craig 5,195 Posted August 20, 2019 Share Posted August 20, 2019 1 hour ago, alexscottislegend said: Sadly, no. The 4 home nations agreement only accepts the residency rule only if the player has been educated in Scotland for 5 years. In the case of Tav, he was born in England but came here as an adult. A shame as he would solve our right back problem at a stroke. Lazy journalism from our old friend the Daily Record. Doesn't mean he doesn't qualify. A gentleman's agreement is different from whether or not he actually qualifies 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
alexscottislegend 2,044 Posted August 20, 2019 Share Posted August 20, 2019 25 minutes ago, craig said: Doesn't mean he doesn't qualify. A gentleman's agreement is different from whether or not he actually qualifies Sorry Craig to belabour the point but he only qualifies if he has a Scottish parent or grandparent: the residency 'rule' only comes into play if he was at school in Scotland. Remember we had a similar scenario with Lorenzo Amoruso? 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
917 191 Posted August 21, 2019 Share Posted August 21, 2019 Re. Tavernier - I don’t remember who was manager, but didn’t Nacho Novo (not educated in Scotland) actually get called up to the squad, only to be hounded out by tartan army bigots? I’m sure he got very close to selection.. 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnMc 2,463 Posted August 21, 2019 Share Posted August 21, 2019 Nah, it was discussed by the media because he'd spent enough time here and hadn't been capped by Spain, but he was never called up. Funnily enough I'm more relaxed about residency rules coming in than the grandparent rule. If someone came to Scotland as an 18 year old and made their life here I'm comfortable with them becoming 'Scottish' in every sense. We're just as bad as the Irish now when it comes to capping players. We actively scout English youth sides looking for any links. There's a lad at Watford of whom great things are expected, with one Scottish Granny, he's now in the 'Scottish international system' despite never having set foot here and both his parents being English. There's a boy at Feyonord too, who we've similarly 'scouted'. 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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