Cash-strapped Lions tighten belts

Cash-strapped Lions tighten belts

18 Dec 2011

The Golden Lions Rugby Union insists it will be able to pay its players despite having ‘financial difficulties’.

GLRU deputy president Altmann Allers told the Sunday Times that the union is in ‘the process of huge restructuring’ and that ‘people have been retrenched’, but dismissed reports that player salaries would not be paid this month.

‘I wonder if the rumours will go away when the players get paid this week?’ Allers countered. ‘It is true that we are going through some financial difficulties but the players’ salaries will not be affected. I don’t know if it is a misunderstanding or if someone misinterpreted the situation, but we are going to meet our obligations in 2012 and beyond. We are in financial difficulty but that is exactly why we are cutting back.

‘There are a number of players whose contracts we didn’t renew,’ he added, careful not to go into specifics. ‘We are in negotiations to terminate [the contracts of] 13 others.’

Allers estimates the union will have 40 to 45 senior contracted players in 2012, 30 fewer than last season.


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  • 551.Transformation: Reply to this comment
    21 Dec 2011, 13:07 pm

    @mvk-523: who gives a f_cuk about your christmas wishes Msunu wakho!

    racist scrotum-sucking pig!

  • 552.Santa cane: Reply to this comment
    21 Dec 2011, 13:08 pm

    @stormersboy-550:

    To you and yours Stormboy,
    God Bless.

  • 553.Bod: Reply to this comment
    21 Dec 2011, 13:08 pm

    @Heavens Game-548:

    mm..mm. Rather Mike Greenaways nemises.

    His knees are still swollen from that tackle of mine on him 15 years ago

  • 554.Heavens Game: Reply to this comment
    21 Dec 2011, 13:09 pm

    @Santa cane-549: I am sure for you sheepshaggers a bit of lamb on any day can’t be beaten….

    Why, that’s so nice of you my upstanding moralistic little Kiwi mate… Prost! to you too… lol

  • 555.mvk: Reply to this comment
    21 Dec 2011, 13:11 pm

    @Transformation-551: :D

  • 556.Bod: Reply to this comment
    21 Dec 2011, 13:11 pm

    @Transformation-551: I am still trying to figure out what a “super black” is

  • 557.Heavens Game: Reply to this comment
    21 Dec 2011, 13:11 pm

    @stormersboy-550: A good one to you too… Until next years auspicious Plascon Trophy where debate resumes…

  • 558.Heavens Game: Reply to this comment
    21 Dec 2011, 13:14 pm

    @Bod-553: Thought you and him where on the same team…? The Toti Terrors…

    Or did you just go moggy and moerhim from behind on the same side…

  • 559.Santa cane: Reply to this comment
    21 Dec 2011, 13:26 pm

    We Hobbits have a new Movie on the way.
    And it is indeed precious.

    As precious as Bill………

    http://youtu.be/JTSoD4BBCJc

  • 560.the artist formerly known as gunther: Reply to this comment
    21 Dec 2011, 13:30 pm

    @Transformation-551:

    Hayibo!

  • 561.grant10: Reply to this comment
    21 Dec 2011, 13:33 pm

    hate the offseason….farken hate it I tell ya

  • 562.Bod: Reply to this comment
    21 Dec 2011, 13:34 pm

    @Heavens Game-558:

    Toti Terrors…. dont insult me!

    Quins man through and through. Family tradition, my dad for the London and Pretoria versions, me for the Durban Chaptor.

    Greenaway rated himself as a bit of centre, until my tackle convinced him ito the path of rugby journalism, so yes, I suppose you can lay the blame down on me.

  • 563.au revoir mon tout noirs, au revoir...: Reply to this comment
    21 Dec 2011, 13:41 pm

    @stormersboy-550:
    cheers and the same to you.

    frans at the stormers? jeepers…such an attacking player in such a ‘defensive’ unit.. will it work..?..

  • 564.Dawn: Reply to this comment
    21 Dec 2011, 13:41 pm

    @Transformation-551:

    Agreed

  • 565.Heavens Game: Reply to this comment
    21 Dec 2011, 13:41 pm

    @Bod-562: Sheez… Another “Mighty” farken Quin… like Fern…

    Ruff, Tuff, straight from the Bluff, hey?

    Always used to have a chuckle when playing there in my innocent youth… Like Cape Town, a different world in that Bluff bubble to the rest of SA… :wink:

  • 566.Dawn: Reply to this comment
    21 Dec 2011, 13:43 pm

    Why is everyone in a heebie about Cape Town

    All I see is GP number plates here

  • 567.Dawn: Reply to this comment
    21 Dec 2011, 13:45 pm

    mvk is extraball

  • 568.the artist formerly known as gunther: Reply to this comment
    21 Dec 2011, 13:49 pm

    @Dawn-567:

    He is Caponova.

    The poodlewhisperer.

  • 569.Heavens Game: Reply to this comment
    21 Dec 2011, 13:50 pm

    @Dawn-566: Mwwaahh to you too, Dawny… I think you like me :lol:

    Whiplash and HG… Keo’s own Juliet and Romeo…

  • 570.mvk: Reply to this comment
    21 Dec 2011, 13:52 pm

    @Dawn-566: heita you old tart ,now don’t go eyeing up those gp plates with dollar signs in your eyes now!!!

  • 571.mvk: Reply to this comment
    21 Dec 2011, 13:54 pm

    hg and little pink boy(gunthie) together again……how schweeeeet!! :D

  • 572.Dawn: Reply to this comment
    21 Dec 2011, 13:54 pm

    Ja

    We all know what happened to them.

  • 573.Bod: Reply to this comment
    21 Dec 2011, 13:54 pm

    @Heavens Game-565:

    Now you can see why I confuse Gunther so much. The bubbles of The Bluff, Cape Town and now Valencia

    Pray tell…. with whom did you visit the hallowed turf of the Mighty Quins… the REAL House of Pain?

  • 574.Bod: Reply to this comment
    21 Dec 2011, 13:55 pm

    @grant10-561: Go any buy yourself a mountain bike

  • 575.mvk: Reply to this comment
    21 Dec 2011, 13:58 pm

    december is always a busy time for prawny and her fellow tarts.keep up the good work prawny.

  • 576.Heavens Game: Reply to this comment
    21 Dec 2011, 13:59 pm

    @mvk-571: Yes, Transie is absolutely 100% right… Msunu wakho… Gwaan now!

  • 577.mvk: Reply to this comment
    21 Dec 2011, 14:02 pm

    hg loves playing with gunthies pink frilly panties…..the ones gunthies father passed on to him. :D

  • 578.Heavens Game: Reply to this comment
    21 Dec 2011, 14:05 pm

    @Dawn-572: Ag, come now Dawny, we can enjoy it while it lasts:

    Here, another serenade…

    “…And I dream your dream for you and now your dream is real
    How can you look at me, as if I was just another one of your deals?

    you can fall for chains of silver, you can fall for chains of gold
    You can fall for pretty strangers and the promises they hold
    You promised me everything, you promised me thick and thin
    Now you just say, “Oh, Romeo, yeah, you know
    I used to have a scene with him” ”

    :wink:

  • 579.Heavens Game: Reply to this comment
    21 Dec 2011, 14:07 pm

    @Bod-573: I may or may not have played at Quins in the days when a certain Uni was combined and won the league… lol

  • 580.Heavens Game: Reply to this comment
    21 Dec 2011, 14:09 pm

    @mvk-577: Its Mr. HG and Mr. Gunthie to you, laaitie.

  • 581.mvk: Reply to this comment
    21 Dec 2011, 14:12 pm

    @Heavens Game-580</a F aggot gunthie and peanut-butter loving hg sounds just about right.just be careful…gunthies daddy overdosed on to much peanut butter eating. :D

  • 582.Dawn: Reply to this comment
    21 Dec 2011, 14:13 pm

    @mvk-577:

    Jinne you are so boring.

  • 583.mvk: Reply to this comment
    21 Dec 2011, 14:17 pm

    @Dawn-582: I bet those gp plate okes don’t say that of you when then have their prawny sandwich for breakfast,lunch and dinner. :D

  • 584.Heavens Game: Reply to this comment
    21 Dec 2011, 14:19 pm

    @mvk-581: Yes, I am partial to Peanut butter… makes me do a helluva lot of dumps though… suppose that’s why you keep reappearing… Many dumps = many opportunities to escape from the sewers…

    How did you do it this time… Honestly, I flushed… and flushed… and flushed… yet you wouldn’t go down… Like a little farken excretion cork

  • 585.mvk: Reply to this comment
    21 Dec 2011, 14:22 pm

    gunthie will always be a lucky gal come christmas times!!whether it’s christmas or not hg always love playing around with or in his peanut-butter jar. :D

  • 586.Treehugger: Reply to this comment
    21 Dec 2011, 14:23 pm

    551@Transie :lol: :lol: :lol:

  • 587.au revoir mon tout noirs, au revoir...: Reply to this comment
    21 Dec 2011, 14:24 pm

    kom nou kinders, speel mooi saam… dis kersfees tyd…

  • 588.the artist formerly known as gunther: Reply to this comment
    21 Dec 2011, 14:25 pm

    Its true that December is a very busy month for the hoere of Cape Town.

    Its no coincidence that the poodlenaaier was conceived at that time of year.

  • 589.mvk: Reply to this comment
    21 Dec 2011, 14:27 pm

    @the artist formerly known as gunther-588: december is also the the time that your 20 rand tart of a mommy gets lots of black d ic ks up her ars e ne or is that now your beloved daddy? :D

  • 590.mvk: Reply to this comment
    21 Dec 2011, 14:29 pm

    i wonder whether gunthie the fa ggot dressed his dady in his favourite pink frilly panty….before dumping him in a hole.

  • 591.Heavens Game: Reply to this comment
    21 Dec 2011, 14:29 pm

    @mvk-585: How’s Fifi the Poodle… Not giving you any…? I sense some pent-up frustration… You can always try self-fellatio if you can’t come right, you do know that?

  • 592.Heavens Game: Reply to this comment
    21 Dec 2011, 14:32 pm

    @mvk-590: Keep wondering… Your fantasies are interesting… Are you flirting with Gunther?

  • 593.mvk: Reply to this comment
    21 Dec 2011, 14:32 pm

    gunthies mommy got a bit disillusioned with white d ic ks when she discovered gunthies daddy was servicing little gunthie from a young age…..typical white male behaviour. :D

  • 594.Dawn: Reply to this comment
    21 Dec 2011, 14:38 pm

    Good grief

  • 595.Heavens Game: Reply to this comment
    21 Dec 2011, 14:39 pm

    @mvk-593: So, I can very safely assume you are this typical “white male”…? From scatological genesis through incest to bestiality… Capo was formed and exists… Silly me… Its so obvious now…

  • 596.Treehugger: Reply to this comment
    21 Dec 2011, 14:45 pm

    mvk… u r so fecking out of order u repulsive, sickening, nauseating filth.

  • 597.mvk: Reply to this comment
    21 Dec 2011, 14:48 pm

    another german speaking man got jailed this week for having his way with his daughter for over 40 years!JUST WHAT DE FEC K IS WRONG WITH WHITE PEOPLE????

  • 598.mvk: Reply to this comment
    21 Dec 2011, 14:52 pm

    @Treehugger-596: ….says the racist low-life doubling up as vermin scum who believes it’s okay for calling black people ba boons.

  • 599.rangerman: Reply to this comment
    21 Dec 2011, 14:53 pm

    @mvk-593: why do you follow your posts with a smiley when its clear you are full of anger son?

  • 600.rangerman: Reply to this comment
    21 Dec 2011, 14:55 pm

    @mvk-598: black people arent ******* buddy.

    just you :lol:

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