“I’m ready for a fight!”
23 Jan 2006
Saru president Brian van Rooyen has vowed to fight off the challenge of Sharks president Oregan Hoskins.
Saru’s presidential elections take place on 24 February, and Hoskins is eager to replace Van Rooyen at the top of SA Rugby.
“There is too much negativity surrounding our rugby,” he told the Cape Times. “Rugby cannot prosper if it is rocked by one scandal after another. My motivation for standing is to do what I can to improve rugby’s image.”
However, Van Rooyen plans to win re-election and stick around for another two years.
“I believe I have done a reasonably good job as president of Saru,” he said. “Reports that I have been asked to leave are factually incorrect. I’ve gone on the campaign trail and I am confident that I have the support of most of the provincial unions. I’m ready for a fight, meneer!”
Van Rooyen also asked his opponts not to use underhand tactics against him.
“Please don’t use devious means,” he said. “Come to the polls on 24 February to oust me. I will not walk or be pushed. I will fight for what I believe is right. Don’t go behind my back. I’m not going to fall over.”
82 Comments
23 Jan 2006, 07:40 am
Don’t use underhanded tactics?
What? Is he kidding?
Didn’t he do exactly the same thing 2 years ago?
23 Jan 2006, 07:41 am
“There is too much negativity surrounding our rugby,� he told the Cape Times. “Rugby cannot prosper if it is rocked by one scandal after another. My motivation for standing is to do what I can to improve rugby’s image.�
How about improving the image of those poor sharkies down in Durbs first?
“Van Rooyen also asked his opponts not to use underhand tactics against him.”
LOL
23 Jan 2006, 07:52 am
Oh boy, here we go again. If Hoskins become president, does that mean that Durban might be able to host a Tri-nations game instead of a warm-up game against Scotland.
23 Jan 2006, 08:18 am
I’d like someone like Francois Pienaar or Morne du Plesis to take control of the circus.
23 Jan 2006, 08:29 am
clowns
23 Jan 2006, 08:45 am
“Rugby cannot prosper if it is rocked by one scandal after another.” – So Mr van Rooyen on whose watch did most of these scandals happen ? Who were personally responsible for a whole bunch of them ?
Cheers
23 Jan 2006, 08:47 am
hehehe,
this **** is funny
23 Jan 2006, 08:57 am
Nah , it’s time for him to go.
23 Jan 2006, 08:58 am
Morne for President!!!!
23 Jan 2006, 08:59 am
Bring back Luyt – no just kidding!
23 Jan 2006, 09:14 am
Peacefrog
Agree ,when Luyt was there non of this bull **** happened. If not Luyt how about Trever Manuel….:-)
23 Jan 2006, 09:15 am
Hopefully things will be better with Hoskins there. Where’s Ali Bacher? Dont hear from him that much… Thats actually the way it should be.
23 Jan 2006, 09:15 am
Surprise, surprise Meneer!
Start packing your bags.
23 Jan 2006, 09:20 am
Methos,
Some advice for you: Read the story slowly, let it swirl around in that head of yours, then make a comment.
You are making the same point as Hoskins
23 Jan 2006, 09:34 am
Testing 123…
23 Jan 2006, 09:39 am
I hope Mr. Hoskins (or anyone honest)wins. However they will have a difficult time defeating Mudguts van Rooyen.
23 Jan 2006, 09:44 am
When last did anyone hear off Mr. Markgraaf?? The shake has being to quite of my liking….
23 Jan 2006, 09:50 am
Markgraaf would be good but he lacks the deplomacy to screw someone and make them think he is doing them a favour. If we can find someone like that then we will have a good leader
23 Jan 2006, 09:51 am
What “underhand tactics” is he refering to. Looks to me that they are planning to vote him out fair and square – nothing underhand about that.
What’s the low-down on Oregan Hoskins – does he have what it takes or is he just another **** in the wind?
23 Jan 2006, 09:57 am
MysticBoer
Mudguts is just preparing the playing field for later when he says he was undone by “underhand tactics”
In my humble opinion Oregan Hoskins is to new to the top management game to oust Mudguts. On the other hand (Darren)maybe (hopefully) he has been approached by a group and asked to be the spearhead of the attack (I am an eternal conspiracy theorist
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23 Jan 2006, 10:28 am
they’re all a bunch of *****. I agree, bring in Francois or Morne… someone with the players interests at heart, not a political animal driven by ego and his small ****…
23 Jan 2006, 10:40 am
I sooooooo wish one day we can just talk rugga…
23 Jan 2006, 10:48 am
Jeeeze “underhand tactics” calling the pot black! He is bloody right “good job as president…….” filtering funds and office space……….Hmmmmm! Here we go “again”. LMFHO
Keo, good move with the site!
Cheers
23 Jan 2006, 10:50 am
I have a good feeling that van Rooyen will get the boot he deserves!!
23 Jan 2006, 10:51 am
at first it was a serious matter to discuss – sa rugby that is.
then it became a joke.
and now i struggle on how to classify this ****.
does this idiot actually think before he opens his yapper.
23 Jan 2006, 10:52 am
Rugby writer JJ Harmse of Rapport had an interesting report in yesterdays newspaper.
The quota system for the Super 14 does not help Jake White that much in selecting more non white players for the Springboks.
Statistics:
(1) 8 was the minimum and only 8 players were selected per region that gives you a total of 40.
(2) 31 are backs.
(3) of the 31 backs, 13 are wings
(4) 9 are forwards
(5) 16 had played for the Springboks
(6) 24 hopefulls to still become Springboks
Mr. Van Rooyen another problem for SA Rugby on the table – Hope you can solve this one as quickly as possible….Time is running out…
23 Jan 2006, 10:55 am
find a solution……..????
bvr wont be able to find a R2 hooker in loopstraat.
23 Jan 2006, 10:58 am
Judge King resigned because nobody was co-operating with the enquiry into corporate governance. The presidents council is extremely unlikely to start a new investigation after Kings resignation.
Brian van Rooyen has the audacity to request that nobody uses underhand tactics to oust him.
Same South Africa same ****!
23 Jan 2006, 11:12 am
seamus
oops, monday morning
Cheers
23 Jan 2006, 11:40 am
Good morning all!!!!
Just trying the new login procedure. Here’s hoping for a good year for the bok’s and the bulls (in that order.) – Just stating my allegiance from the beginning. (Hope we dont run into any cheaters (pun intended))
23 Jan 2006, 11:44 am
Yip everyone listen attentatively to juffrou, as it is the first day of your school career- please play nicely with all the other little crying snotnosed okies
BULLSHIT- get rid of this %6#er…..and all the other guys that sit at SARU- loving themselves more than the game!
23 Jan 2006, 11:53 am
So who is the power behind Hoskins?
Markgraaf, Luyt, Oberholzer, Streuli?
Does the puppet really matter, when we should be worried about who has the strings in the hand?
23 Jan 2006, 12:00 pm
Serious question:
Why haven’t we got a vaguely competent person running?
Possible answer:
Everyone realises SARU is sick to the core, there is so much collusion, back stabbing and allround shafting. You would be dead before you hit the ground…..very sad
23 Jan 2006, 12:05 pm
Agreed train – problem is with the provincial presidents who sell their soals when the voting starts.
Better method: 1 season ticket at every provincial stadium in SA = 1 vote.
Let the supporters choose the man in charge! We pay his salary at the end of the day!
23 Jan 2006, 12:15 pm
Hey offside- at least you know what nick to choose
pun also intended
23 Jan 2006, 12:15 pm
fans should start speaking up against this ****.
stay away from test matches and S14 games.
let them feel it in their pockets they so love lining.
cause as train mentioned, the **** might never change.
23 Jan 2006, 12:16 pm
same **** as with cricket.
donald has applied for the job as bowling coach for the english team, because he is frustrated by the situation in SA.
same **** different day
23 Jan 2006, 12:18 pm
Duncan Fletcher must be delighted
23 Jan 2006, 12:22 pm
Okes,at least it is only a week or two and then the games begin!!!!At least one thing to be thankfull for in this whole mess they call SARU:-)
23 Jan 2006, 12:25 pm
vleis,
apart from your team that might be a very faint silver lining in an otherwise sorry state of affiars, you will forgive me for not seeing this as a positive but rather yet another season our teams will get snotted again…
23 Jan 2006, 12:26 pm
and before i get slammed for being negative about our teams and our rugby, please offer me a solution on what there is to be postive about.
the administrators are killing the game i love – and i dont see anything changing soon.
23 Jan 2006, 12:28 pm
***** PA,reen dit nie daar nie,of wat????At least your team will beat the Spears(although it is only a warm-up),so,be thankfull!
23 Jan 2006, 12:29 pm
BTW,maybe you will see the end of Ol’Gus this season,that is something too look forward too,is’nt it?
23 Jan 2006, 12:31 pm
PissAnt, I’m with you on this. We need real competent and professional administrators.
Nothing depresesses me more than when I see our admin, coaches and general running of sport in SA. The current lot are on a different planet, with the wrong priorities, stupid attitudes and a fundamental lack of professionalim… also some of them are just plain stupid.
23 Jan 2006, 12:47 pm
Good riddance, but far too late.
Bring back luyt!
23 Jan 2006, 12:50 pm
Just one little Q,whio says he will be gone after 24 Feb.?We all know how easy the Unions roll over for a few promises!So,dont start the farewell party too soon!
23 Jan 2006, 12:50 pm
Has anyone read Luyt’s autobiography?? I saw it @ CNA didn’t know whether to buy it or not?
23 Jan 2006, 12:50 pm
IQ, EQ and basic competency tests for administrators? Hmmm… That sounds good!
Let them complete standard GMAT or SHL tests to demonstrate comprehension and numerical ability.
Lastly they must accept a clause that allows John Robbie to perform a monthly polygraph test on them – on which ever subject/s he chooses!
23 Jan 2006, 12:52 pm
Just saw the log on the homepage, Its been quite some time since the Sharks have been off the bottom of the log. lol
23 Jan 2006, 12:54 pm
Van rooyen sucks! Anyone will be better than him. So much for peacefull elections
23 Jan 2006, 12:55 pm
Bloem Leeu,
Jy kan maar die boek koop. Baie insiggewend en baie feite waarvan ons nie geweet het. Jy sal meer van die man hou nadat jy die boek gelees het.
23 Jan 2006, 12:58 pm
Let us be honest.. if you are high flyer in South Africa you are not going to enter sports management.
You would rather work/run an operation where the rewards are real, where what you do has an impact and you don’t have a bunch of arseholes and the government waiting for you to screw up!
23 Jan 2006, 13:02 pm
Thanx Stan
Ek het nog altyd van Luyt gehou, in sy dae het als nog oor rugby gegaan en nie politiek nie!
Hy het nie nonsins van Spelers, Provinsies of Politiek gedult nie, wens ons kan weer so leier kry!
23 Jan 2006, 13:04 pm
Hy was ook nooit n broederbonder nie.Dit het hom waarskynlik n plek in die Bokspan gekos…
23 Jan 2006, 13:06 pm
OO
Are you accusing us of anything? (Lol)
All jokes aside, the Cheetahs deserved their CC win and all the kudo’s that go with it. I hope that Jake will recognise the brilliance that Rassie uses/used and will utilise his innovativeness for the boks.
As I stated before (under the nick SadSack) – The Bulls WERE the strongest team, but, under the influence of Rassie and co, the Cheetahs had precisely the right gameplan to negate the strengths of the Bulls – in other words, a plan A that worked!!!!!!!! (And no doubt had a plan B too.) All that remains to be seen is whether they can be competitive in the S14. I will be looking forward to our 1st clash.
23 Jan 2006, 13:32 pm
Anyone going to Sun City this weekend for the Sharks-Bulls game. If you live close by, its well worth the trip, a great day.
23 Jan 2006, 13:42 pm
Offside
Nope- just preparing the next verbal battle.
Yip it will be good to watch the serious end of Rugby again and for our teams – it starts off were it ended
But then all the suffering that us fans have to endure….
23 Jan 2006, 13:44 pm
I dont understand why the sharks are even bothering playing warm up games – they are gonna come stone last anyway… they probably more interested in bringing out their own range of golf clubs than playing rugby…
23 Jan 2006, 13:47 pm
Bigg
Remember **** Muir took over midway through the season last year. **** is a great coach, and I think the Sharks will do much better this year than most expect them to.
Ig, save this post of mine, and post it after the season again.
23 Jan 2006, 13:49 pm
Bringing out there own range of golf clubs…..LOL
23 Jan 2006, 13:50 pm
Hi All,
Like the new site keo, easy to register as well…
Here’s hoping this is Van Rooyens End
23 Jan 2006, 13:51 pm
Craig
Hope the Shrks do well, just worse than the Cats…
23 Jan 2006, 13:58 pm
I hope Brian get to read everything on this site, then he should know what to do!!!
23 Jan 2006, 14:00 pm
swarugby
Where you from South West Africa [Namibia] ?
23 Jan 2006, 14:02 pm
swarugby
That’s if Brian Von Ruin can read in the first place!
23 Jan 2006, 14:14 pm
Craig, I really hope for the Sharks fans sake they do well… If there is any team that should get relegated it should be the cheetahs as they are the new kids on the block… I can’t believe that the Spears are playing next year – they are so kuk… Just watch this space there is going to be a huge court battle at the end of the season. See what happens when you put so much emphasis on transformation?? This is going to backfire coz how the hell can you have the spears in stead of the Sharks, stormers, cheetahs, cats or bulls – its just not right… The players can’t go play for the spears next year as most of them are on 3 year contracts… What a F&&% up….
23 Jan 2006, 14:21 pm
swarugby – I don’t think you understand how the mind of an egotist (BvR) works.
If he ever reads the comments on this site – he’ll sit back, smirk and comment on how uncultured, and naive the rest of us are.
People with a God complex don’t worry about what the “ignorant masses” think.
23 Jan 2006, 14:21 pm
OO
I tend to fly under the radar when it comes to singing my teams praises since we were so cruelly dispossesed of the CC trophy. Funny thing is, it’s not the Cheetah fans that are the problem, rather it’s the rest of the fair-weather supporters who gloat that we lost – go figure.
23 Jan 2006, 14:30 pm
but dont we need quotas in our administration as well
23 Jan 2006, 14:31 pm
I agree offside the Cheetahs fans have been magnaminous in victory and defeat, so too have the Bulls. Its the fans of the other teams who don’t get to finals, to be given the chance to lose that ***** the loudest.
I think it only right that I single out most Stormers fans as the torch carriers in this regard. Enjoy your break next season Stormers, probably be good for you as Schalk and co look a bit jaded and in need of rest.
23 Jan 2006, 14:33 pm
Bigg,
Perhaps relegation is precisely the spure needed to wake under-performing teams up.
As a Gautenger, I support the Bulls and then the Sharks, or at least I used to. Potentially and historically the Natal Union has been probably the most effective of the big 4. In recent times however, they have failed dismally to make a fist of it when playing in the S12. Given that they are (or were) the most financially sound Union of the lot, they had to make something of that and go on to bigger and better things. As things stand, they face possible relegation!!!!
While other unions were buying/developing new talent, what were the Sharks doing???? Sweet bugger-all, which can be seen from the lack of depth in their current squad.
As for the Spears, well we will just have to wait and see – my personal opinion is that we have 2 too many teams in the S14.
23 Jan 2006, 14:33 pm
i am truly hurt dee dah
23 Jan 2006, 14:37 pm
STUCKY
We do have quotas in our administration but funnily enough not along colour lines. The structure I believe is thus:-
3 Village Idiots
2 Morons
5 Complete Fuckwitts
1 Dozy *******
I understand that you can swap a Fuckwitt for a Moron but 1 Dozy ******* will cost you 2 Village Idiots.
Oh yes and all this must be headed by a bloke who has an equal smattering of each quality. So I think SARU have just about got it right.
23 Jan 2006, 14:59 pm
oh hello!
23 Jan 2006, 15:02 pm
LOL
23 Jan 2006, 15:21 pm
Dee Dah
Not bad at all – but your Stormers posting stinks.
23 Jan 2006, 16:15 pm
Whoever become president of SARU should take a medical test to see if he actually a brain in his skull. Then he should take an IQ test…and the same goes for those voting for a new president.
23 Jan 2006, 16:28 pm
“Bring on the Gimp”
“But the Gimp’s sleeping”
23 Jan 2006, 19:51 pm
BVR just showed what a liar he is, I am sure he will ne able to pass a polygraph test, he is a psychopath.
24 Jan 2006, 00:57 am
Ag thanks Brian for the fighting talk, now please pack your tuckbox (and don’t steal anything out of the office) and piss off …. if you think that you have added anything positive or done “a reasonably good job” at SA rugby then you have truly lost touch with reality – please just keep yourself busy with the chaos that is Labatt!
24 Jan 2006, 09:21 am
Brainless fun Ruin is just NOT another Danie Craven, and not is he just another Louis Luyt.
Brian is, was and always will be a mere non-entity.
Brainless is just a hopeless little lightweight dandelion, destined to be dislodged and swept away by nothing morte than a puff of wind.
24 Jan 2006, 14:02 pm
BVR says he did “reasonably well” — ti me this reads that he admits he messed up somewhere. AND PRAY TELL — what underhand tactics would HOSKENS use — if BVR is guilty of oversteppin the mark as the President then these deficiencies in his tenur as the PRESIDENT MUST BE EXPOSED — you cant go down the same road again
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