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The United States may not be the first country you think of when it comes to rugby union, but they will be sending a team to the 2011 Rugby World Cup.
One omission from the squad is San Francisco Golden Gate lock Samu Manoa, who has signed a professional contract with English Premiership club, Northampton Saints.
“Samu Manoa will not be traveling to RWC,” said US coach Eddie O’Sullivan.
“Unfortunately, a clause in his contract prevents him from traveling to RWC. ”
“While I wish Samu every success as a professional rugby player and respect his decision to take up a contract overseas, it is disappointing we were only made aware of his unavailability for RWC as recently as three weeks ago.”
The full story on the matter is here.
This is very worrying and surely the International Rugby Board should step in.
What are Roarers’ thoughts on this?
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