Yeah the more I think about this the more I am becoming totally indfferent as to whether he goes or not.

If he wants to chase the cash, good on him, its a professionaly game with an age limit.
I dont think think it will be a great move for him rugby wise though and I think you’ll see him lose even more ground in his quest to be no 1 loosehead ahead of Guthro.

As for the Sharks, well they are well covered in the front row so no worries there. Van Staden is a very good player.

Lions becoming the Man City of SA rugby. The union is flat broke but luckily there is a large benefactor to buy players.

Golden Lions President Kevin de Klerk
believes that the tug-o’-war between the
Lions and the Sharks over the services of
Springbok prop Tendai Mtawarira is not
over yet, and the player’s decision will
ultimately decide his fate.

Sharks CEO Brian van Zyl has indicated that
the Sharks are adamant that Mtawarira has
a binding contract with them and the matter
has now been put to rest. De Klerk,
however, believes there could still be one
final twist in this ongoing saga.

De Klerk revealed his admiration for
Mtawarira as a player and
explained why he believed there was still a
chance that the Beast could become a Lions
player in 2011.

“We’re not done with our negotiations [yet]
and, ultimately, it is going to depend on the
Beast where he wants to play his rugby,” De
Klerk said

“I don’t believe that he has a proper
contract, but we don’t need – or want – to
have to go to court to contest that.”

De Klerk compared Mtawarira’s current
contract with the Sharks to the dispute
between the same two unions a year ago
that saw loose forward Willem Alberts and
fullback Louis Ludik trade Johannesburg for
Durban.

“It is a similar type of arrangement to the
one we had with Willem Alberts and Louis
Ludik where the contracts were not
complete, so there was an opening for us to
negotiate with him and we did on that
basis,” he explained.

“We believe that we have a wonderful
opportunity for him [Mtawarira] up here at
the Lions with the new team that we are
developing.

“We would love to have him on board, but
we will respect his decision about where he
would like to play,” he added.

The Lions are in a rebuilding phase with a
number of young players coming through
the ranks, and the financial backing of IT
multi-millionaire Robert Gumede is allowing
the union to purse a few more well-
established players to mentor young
starlets like Elton Jantjies and Jaco Taute to
name just two.

However, should the ambitious move to lure
the Springbok loosehead prop to
Johannesburg fail, De Klerk is confident that
coach John Mitchell has enough talent at his
disposal to work with.

“We are pretty well layered and have some
up-and-coming youngsters that are making
big statements at the moment, so we are
pleased about the road ahead,”

De Klerk expects finality on this saga to be
obtained “over the next few days”.

or you would be committed.

and not in a good way.

anyways, i am out. battle tomorrow?

cheers man.

did bjorn basson go to school in pretoria? young hougie or old hougie? morne steyn? guthro? bakkies?

dont be silly man please.

the sharks won 4 cc’s in the 90′s (between 90 and 96, take a guess who dominated those years then?) and were in two finals after 1996.

they have won 2 in the last three.

now stop being emotional please. the bulls are amazing! happy?

The Sharks will always be competetive, but dominating a full strengh domestic comp,I doubt it. Unless they buy the entire Grey College, and force them to play in black

i did not say of the last 100 years tegejo?

i was talking about A COMPETITION with transie as he said the sharks had never dominated any compo.

but yes, we sharkies respect what the bulls have achieved even if it was off the back of a cheating cowardly action by a players and a gutless display by a drunken kiwi yobbo ref who is now an aussie but still a tunc.

there you go, happy?

is it already internet closing time in china?