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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19 Dec 2011, 15:27 pm
This is too good a post to leave at the bottom of a page. Repost alert:
I’ve done a quick analysis on the last years of Super Rugby. Using a simple points system I’ve awarded 3 points to the winners of the comp, 2 points to the runners up and 1 point to the losing semi finalists.
Based on that formula the success of the “top tier SA teams” looks like this:
Last year:
Stormers 1 point (losing semi)
Rest of SA: 0
Last 2 years:
Bulls 3 points
Stormers 3 points
Rest of SA: 0
Last 3 years:
Bulls 6 points
Stormers 3 points
Rest of SA: 0
Last 5 years:
Bulls 6 points
Stormers 3 points
Sharks 3 points
Last 10 years:
Bulls 8 points
Stormers 4 points
Sharks 3 points
HG has a point
I think that the “top tier” is too large. It’s really only 2 teams. The Bulls and the Stormers.
19 Dec 2011, 15:30 pm
@NZINCHINA-150: There was a time that Goodyear tyres were decent, much like the Sharks
19 Dec 2011, 15:31 pm
@stormersboy-151: Nice. Thanks.
19 Dec 2011, 15:31 pm
@stormersboy-151: And you haven’t even calculated your Plascon Wall & All points into that equation.
19 Dec 2011, 15:34 pm
@Michael-146: Aah, now I understand… When you say “Conservative” or “right-winger” you actually mean superior maths, logic skills…?
19 Dec 2011, 15:34 pm
@>^..^< katman-154: Yes! And the FirstChoice Furniture trophy we won for beating Boland last year too!
Our cup runneth over
19 Dec 2011, 15:36 pm
@stormersboy-151: What, you got a stutter? Sheez, talk about hot air and massaging numbers… Fark, continuing your logic you could make the Cats the best SA Franchise in history…
Farken daydreaming, man….
19 Dec 2011, 15:38 pm
@stormersboy-141: Actual this vs Actual that…
And No, the Sharks do not use Tendersure…
19 Dec 2011, 15:38 pm
@Heavens Game-158: Forgot to preface with blah farken blah…
19 Dec 2011, 15:41 pm
@Heavens Game-155: The only thing rational and logical about your recent posts is the ability to get the grammar reasonably accurate.
19 Dec 2011, 15:41 pm
@Heavens Game-157: The numbers are there for all to see.
And only using your logic would the Cats be the most successful franchise ever.
Still waiting on you to support your argument with anything concrete on the financial front.
19 Dec 2011, 15:41 pm
@NZINCHINA-142: Oh dear Kiwi in the house… Must be gentle… Can’t have another Guildford… or Poppa incident… can we.
Just remember sheepshagger, if you give then you BETTER be able to take…. without crying to Mummy, okay?
19 Dec 2011, 15:43 pm
You know things are bad when Skop’s posts make more sense than HG’s.
19 Dec 2011, 15:44 pm
@Michael-160: My recent posts? So not the Malta posts where you finished off looking a bit, lets say politely, lightweight… despite them letters after the name… lol
19 Dec 2011, 15:45 pm
@Heavens Game-158: That’s pretty obvious.
If they had used them on the “procurement” front they wouldn’t have ended up with acquisitions like Meyer Bosman, Marius Joubert et al…
But attempting to take a dig at Tendersure is missing the mark son. I don’t own that company.
Have no equity in it whatsoever.
I do consult to them however, amongst other companies.
You see, unlike you, I can smell a success story
19 Dec 2011, 15:45 pm
@stormersboy-151:
sjoe! when you put it that way
@>^..^< katman-154:
@stormersboy-156:
@Heavens Game-158:
19 Dec 2011, 15:46 pm
@Heavens Game-164: Of course it includes those posts of yours. They are Exhibit A of your self-delusional grandeour “my opinions are facts” er “logic”.
19 Dec 2011, 15:46 pm
@stormersboy-161: “The” numbers…? You mean “your” numbers…
Farken fictional cuzzie…
About as realistic as Standard & Poors’ Credit ratings… They also have numbers too. lol
19 Dec 2011, 15:47 pm
@stormersboy-161: What, asking HG to support his stance with concrete facts? Dude!
19 Dec 2011, 15:48 pm
@Michael-163:
Jinne he’s a miserable git.
19 Dec 2011, 15:49 pm
@stormersboy-165: Come now… I reckon by the looks of things, if they used Tendersure, they may have landed up either with a fully blonde backline… or CJ vd Linde at Fullback…
So thank goodness for Sharks moderate management… Sure is a lot of daylight between them and the Tobie Titus’s of the “elite” Super Rugby teams, ne? lol
19 Dec 2011, 15:49 pm
@Dawn-170: Yeah I suppose. I’m bored and those two are easy prey.
19 Dec 2011, 15:51 pm
@Michael-167:
He’s got vokkol letters behind his name.
Jealous he is.
19 Dec 2011, 15:51 pm
Good thing Goode isn’t playing anymore or Straeuli will have been tempted to sign up another old-age pensioner
19 Dec 2011, 15:51 pm
@au revoir mon tout noirs, au revoir…-166: Yes, there’s no denying it, the Bulls are streets ahead when it comes to the Super Rugby competition success.
Deservedly so.
@Heavens Game-168: Whatever Trevor.
19 Dec 2011, 15:52 pm
@Michael-169: Yes, concrete facts… Not labels, conjecture and accepted old wives tale wisdom… Yes, like your Malta fairytale… lol
And you call yourself a historian or archaeologist… Sheez… Must be farken easy one of those pieces of paper… Hehe
19 Dec 2011, 15:53 pm
@Dawn-173: Mwwahhh… Big kiss for you… Wink, wink.
19 Dec 2011, 15:55 pm
@Dawn-173: There’s a nice story I like to tell interested people. I was digging at Dune Field Midden (west Coast) at the end of 1997. We visited a farm towards the end where the owner showed us the Oldowan and Acheulian stone tools on his land, as well as what were obvious resting places in stone. Unlike many of the farmers around in the area, he was very interested in archaeology and history, taught himself, established contacts with the department, etc. All in all, I wish more members of the public where like him.
19 Dec 2011, 15:55 pm
@Heavens Game-171: You need to give me more than just conjecture fella.
Actually, suing the Tendersure procurement system, if you had weighted the various critreria for acquisition targets i cannot see on what basis you would have selected any of those players.
The one thing that it does very well is take the emotion out of decision making, and rely on an objective basis for measurement.
Something that, judging by your posts, you seem to struggle to do.
19 Dec 2011, 15:56 pm
@Heavens Game-176: So come on, where are those er “facts” stomersboy asked you to provide… Come on, or is it just another lot of Maltese hot air?
19 Dec 2011, 15:56 pm
@Michael-174: Yeah I forgot about that brilliant management move by the astute Sharks management.
19 Dec 2011, 15:59 pm
@stormersboy-181: Along with moving Terrablanche to outside center and buying Bosman, letting go of Pienaar and Steyn, etc. A model to hold up to other unions
19 Dec 2011, 16:01 pm
PS I was watching the Bath – Leinster game yesterday and they announced that the match day attendance had just taken second place in the all time highest attendance figures for Heineken Cup.
First was at Stade Francais, close to 80 000 (wow)
But this was a clear second, at 44 000.
Again, wow.
19 Dec 2011, 16:03 pm
@Michael-182: Maybe that’s where they save all this loot that HG is talking about.
Stephan, Goode, Bosman and Joubert were probably paying the Sharks for the opportunity.
Couldn’t be the other way around, could it? Wouldn’t make sense……
19 Dec 2011, 16:03 pm
Eish… At least the Stormers haven’t got that Christmas Tree jersey from Christmas past…
Looks like the Bulls may have stolen the design….
Like the Stormers tried to imitate the pre-eminent SA Super rugby side of the time (The Sharks) with the first Bob Skinstad forays into Branding…
Hehehe
19 Dec 2011, 16:06 pm
@Michael-180: You know what they say about adapting to your audience….
I am adapting and descending rapidly…
19 Dec 2011, 16:08 pm
@stormersboy-184: Pfft…Conjecture…
19 Dec 2011, 16:09 pm
@Heavens Game-186: Be nice to Stormersboy, he is a nice guy and one of the sane WP supporters.
19 Dec 2011, 16:12 pm
Stormers attendance figures for Newlands for the past years:
2002
Total for season: 212 156 (5 matches at Newlands)
Average per match: 42 431
Highest during season: 48 700 vs Brumbies
2003
Total for season: 179 848 (6 matches at Newlands)
Average per match: 29 975
Highest during season: 44 533 vs Sharks
2004
Total for season: 198 365 (5 matches at Newlands)
Average per match: 37 873
Highest during season: 44 466 vs Bulls
2005
Total for season: 206 848 (6 matches at Newlands)
Average per match: 34 475
Highest during season: 48 719 vs Sharks
2006
Total for season: 247 711 (7 matches at Newlands)
Average per match: 35 387
Highest during season: 49 736 vs Bulls
2007
Total for season: 169 147 (6 matches at Newlands)
Average per match: 28 191
Highest during season: 47 566 vs Sharks
2008
Total for season: 311 582 (7 matches at Newlands)
Average per match: 44 512 (Highest since 1999)
Highest during season: 47 895 vs Bulls (Highest since 1999)
2009
Total for season: 199 186 (6 matches at Newlands)
Average per match: 33 198
Highest during season: 47 604 vs Sharks
2010
Total for season: 344 500 (8 matches at Newlands)
Average per match: 43 063
Highest during season: 48 739 vs Bulls
2011
Total for season: 360 554 (9 matches at Newlands)
Average per match: 40 062
Highest during season: 48 492 vs Crusaders
FYI some records just because they are there:
Season records
Most team points in a season: 400 (in 16 matches in 2011)
Most victories in a season: 12 (from 16 in 2011)
Most log points in a season: 63 (2011)
Most team tries in a season: 38 (in 12 matches in 2004)
19 Dec 2011, 16:13 pm
Lets talk about some “brilliant” Stormer management moves…
Naah, maybe not… You know what they say about long posts…
19 Dec 2011, 16:13 pm
@Heavens Game-187: lol
19 Dec 2011, 16:13 pm
@Treehugger-188: Okay.
19 Dec 2011, 16:15 pm
@Heavens Game-186: *waves you goodbye from the heights* Good luck. any further and you’ll be joining Poppa the Poodle.
19 Dec 2011, 16:16 pm
@stormersboy-184: Must have got them on a Seniors/Senile Card discount.
19 Dec 2011, 16:17 pm
@Treehugger-188: Thanks Hugsy. Extra helping of veggies tonight in your honour!!
19 Dec 2011, 16:17 pm
@stormersboy-189: Yes. Treehugger has told me to “be nice”…
Tobie Titus’s Stormers are immaculately managed… A professional Union in a league of their own…
Amazing crowd support…
(Of course I wont mention half of this “home” crowd support the opposing team especially if they happen to come from the big sheepfarm of the Pacific…)
19 Dec 2011, 16:20 pm
@stormersboy-175:
3 titles in 5 years is pretty much the end of the discussion…case closed…(move along folks, move along… there’s nothin to see here…)
to be fair though perhaps the ‘top tier’ of the sa conference, as well the comp as a whole, shoud be agreed upon as consisting of an agreed number of sa super teams (however that may be done) and the same can be done for cc as well vc.
19 Dec 2011, 16:20 pm
@Heavens Game-192: lololololol
19 Dec 2011, 16:20 pm
No union which signed Skullet has the right to laugh at others.
19 Dec 2011, 16:20 pm
@Michael-193: Yes, so we have established you have difficulty with a bit of 2 divided by 2…. Maybe there could be a bit of dixlesic condition at best or actual difficulty with the a, e, i, o, u’s at worst… Hellsteeth man, UCT your alma mater (same as ET?)… Same difficulties it seems. hehe
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