Jackson Irvine

My international clearance wasn't given by the Australian side.

So actually I wasn't allowed for the first like near six, seven months, I wasn't actually allowed to play competitive games in Scotland, even under 19 level.

At all?

At all, no.

Why?

Because they wouldn't give me the international clearance.

But why wouldn't they?

Because at that time there was a whole thing about players under the age of 18 moving to Europe.

which was kind of crazy because I was never a part of any elite academy system.

I was never part of any,

you know, I kind of wasn't part of the system.

I wasn't part of any of the youth national teams, Joey's or anything like that, AIS, VIS.

I wasn't selected for any of these programs.

So it wasn't like my path to Europe came completely through, you know, kind of a bit of luck and, you know, it was kind of not because of that.

So, you know, I had a little bit of – I didn't feel like the Australian system had really given me anything at that point in a lot of ways.

You know, I played in –

Vic Schoolboys at under 11s.

I think that was the last representative team I was selected for before this.

So when I got given the chance to play for Scotland, I've always had an extremely strong connection to the Scottish side of my family.

My dad, I used to like... A lot of people...