Province pull rank on Euro Cup match
15 Nov 2011
Newlands and not the Cape Town Stadium will host the European Cup match between Saracens and Biarritz.
Ticket sales have already started for the match on 14th January, with the designated venue being the modern 60 000-setter stadium in Greenpoint, Cape Town. The fixture was widely expected to sell out, with locals and foreign visitors (it is the height of the tourist season) expected to file in for the unique event.
However, the Western Province Rugby Union have intervened and successfully challenged for the hosting rights. This continues an alarming drought of high-profile sporting fixtures for the stadium, which is increasingly becoming a serious financial burden for the city.
WP pointed to the South African Rugby Union constitution’s ruling that the the final decision regarding the match venue lies in the hands of the host union. WP and not Saracens are deemed to be the hosts.
In a statement WP said: ‘ After a recent meeting by the Western Province Rugby Football Union Executive Committee, the request by Saracens to host the match at Cape Town Stadium was considered. However, the Executive Committee decided that the home of rugby, Newlands, would stage this historic match.
‘According to the South African Rugby Union Constitution the final decision regarding the match venue lies in the hands of the host union. The WPRFU Executive Committee unanimously agreed that Newlands is currently the home of rugby in the Western Province, and will be treated as such for the foreseeable future. The Western Province Rugby Football Union embraces such a historic match which will form part of the busy 2012 Super Rugby and Test Match schedule at Newlands.’
Meanwhile Saracens issued a carefully worded statement that read: ‘Saracens has noted today’s statement by the Western Province Rugby Union. We are delighted that two world class venues in Cape Town both want to stage the historic Heineken Cup match between Saracens and Biarritz on Saturday January 14. We will now continue detailed discussions with all parties.’
WP also moved to end the ongoing speculation about a potential move to the Cape Town Stadium. ‘There is currently no intention to move WP Rugby to the Cape Town stadium,’ they said.
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15 Nov 2011, 17:09 pm
@mshiniwami(mshiniwami)-148:
Because they are not in the limelight at the moment.
When they were, all sorts of questions were asked.
They were also not murdered….
15 Nov 2011, 17:12 pm
@Dawn(Dawn)-141:
Indeed.
ANC
Townships
Rap music
Basketball
Off limit discussions for white people.
Different dynamic.
15 Nov 2011, 17:15 pm
@Finfan(Finfan)-146: sharkievarkie…….go fARk yourself…
15 Nov 2011, 17:16 pm
WTF is white people?
15 Nov 2011, 17:17 pm
@Gunther(gunther)-152: sshit stirrer! nc nc nc
15 Nov 2011, 17:19 pm
I think that if I lived in a township I’d pack heat. If I couldn’t get one the legal way, i’d not think twice about getting one the other way. So that in itself doesn’t mean all that much to me.
What for me rasies more questions is the fact that the friends he was with have all been killed recently with him alledgedly being a specified target at the tavern, according to an eyewitness.
That is bound to raise questions. I mean i know life can be tough in the hood, but this doesn’t appear to be random.
For whatever reason.
He’s still dead though, which is unfortunate.
15 Nov 2011, 17:21 pm
@grant10(grant10)-154: You know……. John Smit. Alistair Coetzee. Gert Smal. Mark keo (once upon a time)
Not Victor Matfield apparently.
15 Nov 2011, 17:22 pm
@stormersboy(stormersboy)-156: let me rephrase that. I pack heat and i live in the burbs. Up North nogal.
If I lived in the hood I’d pack a semi auto shotgun……
Oh wait……
15 Nov 2011, 17:25 pm
@stormersboy(stormersboy)-157: farken strange in the 21 st century to still be grouping people on the basis of color….irritates the hell out of me…
15 Nov 2011, 17:25 pm
@Helen(Helen)-151: I think what you are trying to say is that Solly shouldn’t be remembered as a criminal, based on suspicions.
Judging from the thread yesterday, most people, including myself, will remember him as a very good rugby player, but who lost the plot a bit unfortunately.
15 Nov 2011, 17:25 pm
@Transformation(Transformation)-155:
Not at all.
Whenever this stuff comes up there is always some patronising punk who says YOU don’t understand the dynamic. It was the same when people were talking about the ANC the othet day.
Patronising kuk.
Nobody said the guy WAS a criminal and I suspect the truth will come out eventually if they catch the mofos who took him down.
Up until then its all conjecture whether you “understand the dynamic or not”
15 Nov 2011, 17:26 pm
@stormersboy(stormersboy)-158: bring it to Newlands on the 14 th….there is a fatboy who should get a blast up his fatarse
15 Nov 2011, 17:27 pm
world has gone befok
15 Nov 2011, 17:27 pm
@grant10(grant10)-162: LOL I might use it on a Stormersader before i even get into the stadium.
15 Nov 2011, 17:28 pm
@Gunther(gunther)-161: Do you feel ……”lucky?”………..punk?….
Well do ya?……….
15 Nov 2011, 17:31 pm
farkit….gotta wait till 14 jan for some rugger….going to get withdrawal symptons soon….life is a tad farken strangew without my WP/ Stormers fix….
15 Nov 2011, 17:34 pm
@grant10(grant10)-166: You’d be able to watch NH rugby. You indicated that its your preference anyway?
15 Nov 2011, 17:43 pm
@stormersboy(stormersboy)-158: damn dawg never took you for a trigger happy chappy…lol
15 Nov 2011, 17:46 pm
Go on Province, screw the city and pick up the Green point stadium for peanuts when the city can no longer afford it!
15 Nov 2011, 17:47 pm
@Dawn(Dawn)-141: not everyone knows the inner workings of the hood dawn, nothing patronising about that…suck it up
i know the hood i was raised in but i most definitely won’t feck around in Umlazi like i know it’s spots hell no.
15 Nov 2011, 17:48 pm
@Transformation(Transformation)-168: Say hello to my leeetle friend!
15 Nov 2011, 18:21 pm
@stormersboy(stormersboy)-171: hehe let me not find out you braggin about heat meanwhile u pack a 22…
you get b!tch slapped for that nonsense
15 Nov 2011, 18:24 pm
Finfan …
15 Nov 2011, 18:24 pm
Are you still here …
15 Nov 2011, 18:27 pm
OoOoo!!!!!!
The inner workings of the feckin’ hood.
I’m s h I t ting myself.
15 Nov 2011, 19:31 pm
@Dawn(Dawn)-175: i guess i can’t stop you if you insist on feeling patronised
15 Nov 2011, 19:41 pm
M W A
Mhlungus with Atittude.
15 Nov 2011, 19:41 pm
Moi?
Never.
Your hood is my salon.
15 Nov 2011, 19:46 pm
@Gunther(gunther)-177: you mean M L U N G U
ja boet, daai francois hougaard is ‘n MWA vir seker.
15 Nov 2011, 19:54 pm
@Transformation(Transformation)-179:
Fuckdapolis
15 Nov 2011, 19:55 pm
The report below does not say how long he has been signed for. If it turns out the Sharks have let him go (ie he won’t be available for next year’s S15) then BIG questions need to be asked about the Sharks’ one way recruitment turnstile which has seen promising players in Rhodes, Mostert, Cilliers, Van Staden etc leave with no adequate replacements signed up…
Biarritz – South African prop Eugene Van Staden returned to French club rugby for a second spell on Tuesday when Top 14 tailenders Biarritz signed him as a replacement for the retired Eduard Coetzee.
Van Staden, 31, played for Montpellier from 2007-2010 before returning to South Africa to play for the Sharks.
Biarritz, five-time French champions and twice European Cup finalists, hope to have him able to play in Saturday’s European Cup match with Saracens and have sent his file to the tournament organisers, European Rugby Cup (ERC), so they declare him eligible.
Coetzee had announced on Monday he was retiring after being told by doctors that he had taken too many blows to the head.
The 32-year-old South African-born naturalised Frenchman– who has been at Biarritz since 2007 – said he had sought advice from several specialists before taking the decision.
15 Nov 2011, 19:57 pm
Yay gunther give it up.
You have no street cred here!
15 Nov 2011, 20:04 pm
@Dawn(Dawn)-182:
I’m a loser baby
So why don’t you kill me?
With apologies to Beck.
15 Nov 2011, 20:28 pm
Fuckmeslowlyonthefloor Timothy!
15 Nov 2011, 20:33 pm
Things I have learnt about Helen.
Works for a rich guy who doesn’t seem to mind having blood splayed all over his yacht
Has several mega degrees
Uses loaves of bread as tampons
Sometimes needs a man to help remove said tampons
Plays with her **** using a staple remover
15 Nov 2011, 20:37 pm
@Dawn(Dawn)-184:
Be there in ten.
15 Nov 2011, 20:39 pm
Do you remotely resemble timothy olyphant.
(Where did he get that surname!)
15 Nov 2011, 20:43 pm
@Dawn(Dawn)-187:
Sorry only in the trouser dept.
Am turning around to go home.
15 Nov 2011, 20:45 pm
@mshiniwami(mshiniwami)-132: Come on, don’t be naive. It was reported in many sources at the time that he had fallen in with the wrong crowd. And we both know that this didn’t refer to simply taking his focus off the game. He got involved with violent people who resolve problems with violent means. And that’s also sad, but let’s not sugarcoat it just because he was black and you wanted him to succeed. I’m not going to trawl the net for evidence, but here is at least one article where a friend backs this view up:
http://www.iol.co.za/news/crime-courts/pleas-for-donations-to-bury-tyibilika-1.1178614
I feel bad for how things ended for him. I’m sorry that he ended up broke and down, and that he met a violent end. But to simply say that’s township life, and if you don’t live there you won’t understand just doesn’t cut it. I might as well say that if you didn’t grow up in an Afrikaans home in Pretoria, you wouldn’t understand what made the Waterkloof 4 do what they did.
No, we all take responsibility for our actions and our path in life. That’s the only way it can work.
15 Nov 2011, 20:46 pm
Shattered I am.
15 Nov 2011, 20:50 pm
lol
16 Nov 2011, 06:32 am
@Gunther(gunther)-152:
Yoh speak for yourself brah… I was going to Mzoli’s before Hymphatic Thabs had smoked his first batch of Lesotho Gold in Maseru junior high!
16 Nov 2011, 07:15 am
show me the prison show me the jail
Show me the prisoner who’s life has gone stale
And I’ll show you young man with so many reasons why
There but for fortune go you or I
Show me the alley show me the drain
Show me the hobo who sleeps out in the rain
And I’ll show you young man with so many reasons why
There but for fortune go you or I
16 Nov 2011, 07:43 am
Last I heard Joan was living in a tree-house with a wooden sculpture of Bob… far too much LSD in the 60′s…
16 Nov 2011, 09:40 am
@>^..^< katman(katman)-189:
Not naive in the least bit. Again you fail to see the point. Solly may have mismanaged his finances etc and that was through his own doing but nothing points to him being involved in any real criminal activity nor any gang involvement as the article states.
And there you go linking 2 things that are really at obtuse ends with each other. Solly committed no crime(s) etc The gun that was found in car is believed to have been Maguqu’s who was earlier gunned down in the week.(By the way the 3rd friend Shumane is STILL ALIVE not dead as falsely reported). The Waterkloof 4 killed a homeless man….
What has Tyibilika been found to be guilty of exactly? His own mismanagement of finances & rugby career which he was also let down by the system especially at Lions that have upkept relationships & supported far more sinister individuals than Solly. The township analogy looking at the vague circumstances of his passing as well as there being NO REAL evidence of criminal wrong doing on his behalf nor any of his friends(no link to gangs,no criminal records etc) is pretty apt at the juncture. I have seen it happen before.
So if it doesnt cut it for you then so be it.But that doesnt mean that it doesnt hold any credibility especially looking at the circumstances.
Im basing that analogy on situation I have experienced and have seen,applicable to this type of situation from where I stand. If thats naive then all those years i lived in BB section Umlazi Township & G section Kwamashu Township and the things I saw and heard were a figment of my imagination.As some know better as the social scientists they are.
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