Just because i am a bit more restrained on the issue does not mean i have had any change of heart whatsoever. Lets see if the most honourable skipper has real integrity…..or whether in fact we have been duped by the great man.

Team first? Lets see ?

Each of the TriN partners now have 5 teams, its even-stevens. The Conference system will ensure 2 Finalists from each partner-nation, whether they deserve to or not.

Boetie Brits
Nolan Clark
Rory Duncan (Vice-Captain)
Robert Dyer
Jaco Engels
Jaco Fourie
Hannes Franklin
Morne Hanekom
Frank Hearn
Jacques Coetzee
Marlon Lewis
Gerrie Odendaal
Pumlani Nodikida
Sphephelo Mayaba
Mpho Mbiyozo
Thabiso Mngomezulu
Darron Nell
Devin Oosthuizen
Lungelo Payi
Barend Pieterse
Jacques Potgieter
Andre Schlechter
Riaan Vermeulen
De Wet Barry
Jaco Bekker
Monty Dumond
Siyanda Grey
Tiger Mangweni
SP Marais
Norman Nelson
Milo Nqoro
Paul Perez
Marcello Sampson
Wayne Stevens
Mzwandile Stick (Captain)
Jaco van Schalkwyk
Matthew Tayler-Smith
George Whitehead

Despite being significantly disadvantaged financially, and in terms of player resources, the Free State, have been the one of the best CC sides the past decade, with only the Bulls being more successful.
The Free State have played in every semi since 2000, and not even the Bulls have managed that!!

The EP by contrast have been piss poor since the late 80′s, and it’s only a political game that gets them into Super rugby. They couldn’t even win a promo/relegation, and as someone wrote earlier, all this talk of a “black powerhouse” is all just “political promises”, as most of the players playing for the kings are white players from the Free State (originally EP) so where are all the previously disadvanteged??

Yet EP has to run out with 22 pitch black barefoot township kids or they are liars, cheats, political pawns and milking the system.

push button … fax.

“Opinion” – not sure you know what it is to have one.

ps chip calling the tree black?

And that makes it one trophy more than EP has ever won in the whole span of history.

In fact, EP, SWD and Border collectively haven’t even held a contending place in the top-tier rugby competitions for absolute ages, let alone WIN anything.

They’re much WORSE than Minardi. More like Morris Minor.

so what is it that the Watsons ever did to you or your family Spooner?

Don’t cloud the issue with Minardi in F1.

How about the analogy of the Black Craps in test cricket, for they are the undisputed powerhouse of pisspoor, having recently seized the honour from the Bangles.

Maybe they’d like to play in the Supersport Series, like the old ‘Rhodesia’ played in the then Currie Cup???

Johannesburg – Come 2011, the Beast could be hunting with the Lions instead of swimming with the Sharks.

Tendai (Beast) Mtawarira, the Sharks and Springbok prop, has apparently received an offer from the Lions which he may be unable to turn down.

In Sharks country it is already being said that he is heading for Johannesburg, but Brian van Zyl, the executive head of the Sharks, said on Tuesday that the Beast signed a contract for another three years with the Durban-based team in October, and that he will be forced to honour it.

“We won’t let him go just like that, although we are aware of him being contacted by the Lions,” says Van Zyl.

Informed sources say the Sharks have apparently also made it clear to Mtawarira that they were the union to have fetched him in Zimbabwe, and to have given him a chance to get a foothold in South African rugby.
This emotional appeal, which is now issued by team bosses in Durban, is meant to counter the massive amount that the Lions’ new owners are apparently willing to pay for Mtawarira.

It is no secret that the Sharks are deeply disappointed by the possibility that he may be lost to them and could be seeking greener pastures.

There are even some who say openly that he could definitely be lost to the team and that his marketing involvement with the team has already been curtailed.

The Sharks’ home will also from next year not be known as the Absa Stadium anymore. The contract for the naming rights of the stadium has not been renewed by the banking group and Van Zyl has confirmed that a new contract has been signed for the naming rights of the stadium.

An announcement regarding this matter will apparently be made early next year.