"I have Scottish heritage and represent my grandma" | The Scotland star that's represented Australia
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- Опубліковано 9 тра 2023
- Sione Tuipulotu has experienced a huge amount in his upbringing and rugby career, and after making his mark on the 2023 Six Nations, he talks about his pride of representing Scotland in this week's episode of The Open Side.
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Absolutely adore Sione-fantastic player, who puts his whole heart and soul into the game, and a thoroughly lovely man 🥰 So proud to have him choose to play for Scotland 🏴and Glasgow Warriors 🖤💙
Used to play for the same club as him and knew he would make it when he was only like 15. Always good to see a fellow Frankston boy make the big time
Congratulations to Sione. He is one of the reasons that has made Scotland a team to be very wary of .
Good for him, good for Scotland.
Sad he's not playing for Australia but he's a great player and a good man. All the best mate 👍
Fantastic interview. Great and well rounded player.
Brilliant player who really seems to get his drive from playing for his Grandma. He’s been fantastic for Glasgow and Scotland!
A great Rugby player , All the BEST from Sri Lanka .
Great interview with a lovely, humble guy.
Great interview. Elma Smit is consistently excellent. Sione is a fantastic player and a humble guy. We are lucky to have him play for Scotland.
It’s obvious that Sione is hugely proud to be Australian, and of the other nationalities and ethnicities which make him the man he is-but without getting political, both our First Minister and the leader of the Labour Party in Scotland do not ‘look’ Scottish, or have ‘Scottish’ names-i am hugely proud when we can look beyond the obvious differences and not only accept, but embrace the diversity of all Scots and the people who live in Scotland.
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.
Pretty much everyone has a Scottish granny if they look hard enough.
But this guy is class, much more than a one-out Bosher. Flying the flag for us small guys.
One of our own . My dads Scottish i am scottish as far as im concerned.
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.
Ofa atu nephew Nonz ✊🏿❤️
Good bloke, great player, awesome journey, "you know what i mean"?
Hey bro, you have Scottish blood in you. That’s all what counts.👍🏽
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.
"A bit of a fruit salad" 😂
If you come and live in Scotland then you are Scottish along with your other nationalities. Brilliant player. Keep up the good work.
Scottish blood running thru his veins.
By the sounds of it, he has a cocktail of heritage.
Im worried for this guy... scots always in him... i hope he likes scot.
Definitely need to change rules he probably only found out at like 19 tryna make up some bullshit reason he's a scot. He's a full blooded ozzie ahahahaa
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.
I am sick of this kind of thing, You should only be allowed to represent the country you were born in, or grew up in. By the time you are 7, the country you have spent the majority of your life in is the country represent.
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.
Shameful... this nonsense of nationalizing foreign mercenary/players needs to stop!
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.