Dundee set sights on winger Yogane
Dundee boss Steven Pressley is set to make full use his Brentford links to sign 19-year-old winger Tony Yogane on loan. (Daily Record), externalRead the rest of Sunday's Scottish gossip.
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The family genes, consequently, are more exotic than some and the concept of nationality correspondingly more blurred. Which, on this trip, puts him in the crosshairs of those who insist borders should be hard and fast and national flags non-transferable. Maybe the Western Force stadium announcer thought he was being hilarious as he rattled off the Lions team: 'The Aussie at No 14, Mack Hansen. Another Aussie at No 12, Sione Tuipulotu. The Kiwi now Irishman, James Lowe.' Either way, more fuel was instantly poured on one of sport's more incendiary debates. Tuipulotu didn't hear it – or claimed he didn't – but you could sense the 28-year-old's heart sinking when the subject inevitably came up. 'I knew there would be some 'good humour' coming back home to Australia,' he replied more than a touch wearily. 'These are all things we've got to take in our stride. Look, I am from Australia. I was born here. I don't know how funny that gag is to everybody but I'm loving playing for Lions.' In other words, he wasn't too impressed. Understandably so. Imagine if the same announcer pulls a similar stunt before England's cricketers play the opening Test of the Ashes series in the very same stadium this November. 'West Indian Englishmen Jofra Archer and Jacob Bethell', Pakistani Englishman Shoaib Bashir …' Harmless banter or something more insidious when all that should matter is the three lions on their caps? The Lions prop Pierre Schoeman has already had to deal with such enquiries, as did Lowe on Saturday evening. Lowe qualified for Ireland via residency and played against the Lions for the Waikato Chiefs in 2017, but he and his wife are now Irish citizens and he insists representing the Lions 'will make me proud until the end of my days'. It might also be worth mentioning, for balance, that the current Wallaby squad are a similarly cosmopolitan bunch. The Fijian-born Filipo Daugunu qualifies via residency, while winger Harry Potter was born in England. Tom Lynagh was born in Italy, for whom his brother Louis now plays, and raised in England. Taniela Tupou is known as the 'Tongan Thor' while Hunter Paisami represented Samoa at Under-20s level. Noah Losesio and Will Skelton were also born in New Zealand. Australia's head coach, Joe Schmidt, meanwhile, is a Kiwi revered for his work in Ireland. Yet even Schmidt has had to row back publicly from a 'sloppy' comment in which he pointedly referred to 'the southern hemisphere centre partnership' of Tuipolotu and Bundee Aki. Schmidt says he regretted the remark and that it was not meant as a slight. Sign up to The Breakdown The latest rugby union news and analysis, plus all the week's action reviewed after newsletter promotion Too late, sadly, to douse the jingoistic flames. And if allowed to rage unchecked, where will it all end? A Ryder Cup team – Brexit means Brexit – containing nobody from beyond the white cliffs of Dover? 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