Payne Haas’s allegiance switch to Samoa: a threat or an opportunity for rugby league?
By Hunter Fujak, Senior Lecturer in Sport Management, Deakin University
Dion Enari, Associate Professor, Ngā Wai a Te Tūī (Maori and Indigenous Research Centre) and School of Healthcare and Social Practice, UNITEC Institute of Technology
Sarah Wymer, Senior Lecturer, Sport Leadership & Management, Auckland University of Technology
If rugby league stays flexible and open-minded when it comes to national allegiances, it could be a way for the sport to win hearts and minds across the Pacific.
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