you probably still believe in santa?

Keo, look who the dinosaur is! You can’t step out of your narrow minded mentatlity for 1 second!

The Spears must get into the S14! The SA sides have embarresed us for long enough, if anything, there should be 3 new sides being offered places in the S14!

It is time for a big company to make their mark in rugby, get a couple of established players in their (look overseas – what have the SA S14 players ever done for us?!). Get some of the British Lions, French Cockrels & Pumas into the side. It is such an opportunity that SA rugby should be part funding to raise up the S14 side!

PE, not a bad place to move to from a mis Northern hemmisphere winter!

This is bollocks talking about promotion relegation, if that was the case, if you had one on one journalism contests for this site, there would only be a handfull of toddlers who can only string one or two Russian sentences together writing the articles!

Spears have the potential to stop the embarresment that is SA rugby in S12!

Four more years, Richie. I’ll put money on that.

If it was not for the name, the haka, and the effective marketing you’d lose half that aura. it wont be long before people see right through the frailties in your team and expose them for the pretenders they are. its all just one nations hype. and i’d put money on them not winning it again next year…

Cannon fodder for the real deals!

And after we’re done handing out hidings in the super 14, we’ll give your Springbok a slaughtering too come tri nations time!

What does bother me is that the Spears are supposed to develop the players of the Eastern Cape region.

1) How can the SA region missing out on the S14 next year be expected to loan players to the Spears? Would that not defeat the point?

2) why are the Spears poaching U21 players from other unions? Again, aren’t we defeating the point (again)?

3) Let’s be honest – the Spears are not ready. How much will anyone develop when they get slaughtered by 50 points EACH week? The same will happen to these players’ confidence that what happened with Gaffie & Dave von H. after the All Blacks hammered us 28-0.

At this stage I would think a play-off match would be the only option (SARU can even start the Spears with 20 points on the board!).

MHO

All this talk about the Spears being ‘embarrsed’ and ‘donnered’ in the super 14. Maybe, but I think at a stage the Bulls had only 1 win from 2 seasons. They can’t do much worse than that.

in my opinion we lost fare and Square. The previous year it was bad luck with Rassie not scoring and then dropping the ball vor EB to score.

i havent mentioned unjust or anything remotely like that!

go out and have a whale of a time, we will definitely be speaking again during the season.

if relegation factor works and we have 2 SA teams in the semi’s…… well thats another story / dream

Not probable, and I wouldn’t bet on it. But I’ll sure hold thumbs. The way you guys are going on about the ‘unjust’ CC final. We’d never hear the end of the ‘unjust’ relegation rule.

Honestly, looking at pre-season info, and reporting on matches – it will be difficult to want to predict.

you keep on supporting your team and i will do the same on my side.

what are the chanches of the Bulls being relegated. jip we did not win in the CC final, but would not put money on the bulls to be last. Rather put money on your team to make a buck or two!