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, 20:41 pm
@>^..^< katman-248: whats with you dumb fck arsehole ?? you buying into the Mayan prophecies or not? dumb arse klutz deluxe..?
Whether they right or wrong.. what it gonna matter when reality dawns on your dumb klutz face
or as you watch the moving finger write and having writ, move on
nor with all thy wit shall thou lure it back to cancel half a line,
nor all thy tears wash out a word of it
Me I go day by day same as the Japanese did day by day when the tsunami came … if Krakatoa gonna erupt.. you ain’t gonna stop it.. no matter you got crystal clear sighted awareness or not… so better you invest some more shares in your hedge bet off shore fidelity fund.. while the going still good you dumb dubious klutz of klutzes…
19 Dec 2011, 20:53 pm
@ashampoopaloo-251: So all your “knowledge” is pretty fckn useless then, by your own admission. Fcked if you know and fcked if you don’t. The big wave will get us all. Difference is, I’ll most likely be washing down some tender lamb chops with a big, balsy shiraz when it happens. Sparing only the briefest of thoughts for you with your crystal clear vision and your leftover chickpea curry.
19 Dec 2011, 20:55 pm
Come on guys no need to fight, we live in interesting times and everybody has an opinion, what ever happens happens and we are powerless to stop whatever, believe dont believe, there is no proper proof, Just a SIGN OF THE TIMES.
19 Dec 2011, 21:01 pm
@Treehugger-253: Don’t you get tired of his “eccentric” I’m-so-hippy-it-hurts rubbish that he passes off here for mystical fact, night after night after night? He’s a pottymouthed phony and needs to be told so, repeatedly, until he either owns up or shuts up. I don’t mind which.
19 Dec 2011, 21:03 pm
Beeeg joke … ha ha ha ha ha … you be laughing other side of your fancy pansy arsehole when the sh’t hits the fan.. with that half braised bloody leg of lamb stuck halfway down your ravenous gluttonous barbarous blood lusting heathenish craw…
better catch a beeeeg wake up while the going still good because it ain’t gonna be as good as it seems forever dead deal delivered dearest daddy ‘O
19 Dec 2011, 21:06 pm
@ashampoopaloo-255: Spit it out, oh raggedy earthchild, what exactly will be the difference between us on the day? Im after specifics here.
19 Dec 2011, 21:10 pm
change the subject quick ….
I’m so hippy it hurts don’t wanna tramp on fake arse little phony weasels big pretentious toes
so which Coach you gonna be happy with Katmankantdo-fuckall-about-it..??
AC – Heyneke – Or Smal ??
Even that much is game set and match already.. whether you wanna speculate about the outcome of whats already written or NOT.. Dumb fck stupendously idiotic superfluous ignoramus dunce deluxe…
whatever gonna fck you up is gonna fck you up.. in spite of all your highfalutin know nothing wildly inaccurate educated guesses..
19 Dec 2011, 21:14 pm
@>^..^< katman-254: Skop is not going to change, no matter what any one says to him, they only way if you dont want reactions from a person is not to react to what they are writing/saying unless you yourself want to make a point, my point to a twisted fecker today might have landed me in a lot of kuk, but have found out they cant do a thing. I get into a few sticky situations saying things, but have found if I stick to the facts there is not much anyone you are arguing or fighting with can retaliate with. Repeating one self to a person who is not prepared to listen and absorb what you are saying is pointless.
19 Dec 2011, 21:15 pm
@>^..^< katman-256: what clear as daylight specifics would you like to hear little numb skull ignoramus dunce deluxe?? which true to fact fandango would you like to hear my baby blue eyed son… as you ravenously claw away at another hump of flesh you so humanely wrench from its life’s blood.. you silver spoon fed idiotic half way educated pathetic miserable derelict dumbfck dunce…
19 Dec 2011, 21:20 pm
@Treehugger-258: sidle up missy goody two shoes save the planet from extinction .. you don’t stand a foggy faint chance in hell… the ravenous killers of creation gonna kill it any which way the cookie gonna crumble.. no matter how much custard you got pumping through your veins…
killers are killers whichever other goody two shoes half bred ratified identity you wanna pretend they are not…
19 Dec 2011, 21:26 pm
@ashampoopaloo-259: Anything, old chap, as long as it’s not more vague mumbo jumbo. Because I suspect that’s all you have. You just shake the big old mysticism for dummies box and see what falls out. And every time, without fail, it’s some sad, regurgitated, remixed spiritual cliche, and you’re not even sure where you heard it anymore.
19 Dec 2011, 21:34 pm
Skop stop with the fecking namecalling FFS please man
19 Dec 2011, 21:35 pm
@ashampoopaloo-260: There are millions of people like me around the world and our numbers will grow, we might not make a big difference but we try, unfortunately big money and instant gratification are winning right now, but more and more people are paying attention to what is happening around them, the ones that see but dont give a toss are the problem.
The more exposure the better the public will be informed.
Night Night……. oh have never been called a goodytwoshoes before, a lot off nasty names which i am used to, this goodytwoshoes will take some getting used to, but i am liking it
19 Dec 2011, 21:36 pm
“you silver spoon fed idiotic half way educated pathetic miserable derelict dumbfck dunce…”
So bloody inanely unnecessary
19 Dec 2011, 21:43 pm
I been abused enough by likes of HG here. Its not smart nor funny.
19 Dec 2011, 21:45 pm
@Dawn-264: Let him be. It’s all he’s got.
19 Dec 2011, 21:46 pm
@Dawn-264: I’ll call your little pathetic ponsified pissarse fancy panty pansy what he exactly is… whether you appreciate me telling the little pissarse prat what he in fact is or not… you wanna change it call Roy.. if he still bows to your pretentious pious peer pressure..
19 Dec 2011, 21:50 pm
this little katmankunt thinks he’s kinda clever .. pity for him nobody ever told him he ain’t… till it one day gonna Dawn on him in his dumb fck delirious waking state how absolutely stupefied ignorant imbecilic he actually is..
19 Dec 2011, 21:55 pm
@ashampoopaloo-268: Ja, so you said. Ad fckn nauseum. Like a stuck record.
Without profanity alliteration and ready-mix mysticism, what would be left of you? That’s the sad part of this exchange.
19 Dec 2011, 21:57 pm
@ashampoopaloo-267: That is fecking ugly of you talking to Dawn like that, I would not have expected that of you, what ! do you freak out at any one that does not agree with you, very un-enlightend, and by the way Dawn comes across as a very down to earth person that calls a spade a spade in her book, rather pick on goodytwoshoes.
19 Dec 2011, 21:58 pm
I mean this is what I got today:
“Heavens Game Says:
December 19th, 2011 at 2:47 pm
@Dawn-121: Maggot, huh? Prawny, are you flirting with me? Here, let me serenade you…
You’re a b.um
You’re a p.unk
You’re an old s.lut on j.unk
Lying there almost dead on a drip in that bed
You scumbag, you ma.ggot
You cheap lousy fa.ggot
Happy Christmas your a.rse
I pray G.od it’s our last”
Real man stuff.
19 Dec 2011, 22:00 pm
you same kind as that other fckarse figment of his own fckd up imagination pretentiously pretending he got the patent out on ‘original thought’ ….
what a f’ng laugh a minute these dumb fck half arsed excuses for so called educated dumb fck derelict dubious intelligence as these monkee moegoe make believe artists pretentiously prance about in their dumb fck misinformed paraphernalia blissfully wishfully thinking they got patents out on intelligence or ‘original thought’…. have you f’ng ever ??
19 Dec 2011, 22:03 pm
@ashampoopaloo-272: Nag skop. I see you’re on the verge of an episode / seizure / breakdown and I don’t want to be the one to push you over the edge. Sluk jou pil en gaan slaap.
19 Dec 2011, 22:05 pm
@Treehugger-270: I know who Dawn is.. I met her more than once.. she’s a good person at heart.. that’s all that counts… this other feeble little excuse of a stupid idiot who thinks he’s clever.. that’s another story.. Dawn can run to his bedside assistance if she reckons he warrants the protection… I reckon the dumb idiot needs a big wake up call for his own pretentious fake arse ignorant good…
19 Dec 2011, 22:18 pm
@Dawn-271: You really are a silly tart aren’t you… Ever heard of Fairytale in New York (Pogues)…
It actually is Christmassy…
Oh well… I can only try with heathens…
19 Dec 2011, 22:20 pm
talking of fckng heathens the arch heathen of heathendom has ignominiously entered the room
19 Dec 2011, 22:21 pm
In that case The Pogues are kuk
19 Dec 2011, 22:22 pm
@ashampoopaloo-247: Yup, carry on… Mock and moan… Blaspheme and blow… Careful of the cry of the crow… Heard of the walls of Jericho?
19 Dec 2011, 22:25 pm
@Dawn-277: Yes, well wake up you dillywench… I have been serenading you six love, and what do I get back? Nadah… Nothing….
I give up.
19 Dec 2011, 22:28 pm
I know Jericho like the back of my hand.. you forget I was born round the corner from there .. to the hark the herald angel singing Catholic nuns of Gethsemane who brought me into the world… there is absolutely naught you can educate or teach or tell me about your JC superstar version of events or eventualities .. I know him way better than you could ever hope to… and then some… believe it or not … just like in chapter and verse of Ripley’s latest pork on the spit Xmas carols…
19 Dec 2011, 22:32 pm
@ashampoopaloo-276: I’ll be your stumbling block… Watch out for the apokalupsis, my little theosophical new age mocking annunaki…
19 Dec 2011, 22:34 pm
Yip its true Dawn.. HG actually loves you in his own screw’d up narcissistic way … same way as he loves Poppa the parish priest .. who he says hail Mary’s twice a week at confession about behind the closed curtain where no one but Lucifer and Father Fagan know wtf goes on behind that superstitious manged up myopic mesmerized mind
19 Dec 2011, 22:36 pm
@ashampoopaloo-280: Wormwood has come and the waters grow bitter… Bitter than any of this pitiful crystal vibrating wind in the willows tosh that you reckon are the keys to the architecture of life or this universe… Nope… no… wrong.
19 Dec 2011, 22:36 pm
Broken hearted I am.
Not.
19 Dec 2011, 22:39 pm
@Heavens Game-281: you be a nothing you dumbarse superstitiously fed tokoloshe believing bible bashing bred boggerol bobba meisie storie said Fred behemoth… what you know about apocalyptic fairy tales and reality is like as much as you know about JC the blond haired blue eyed son of Jacobi … which in truth and actuality is as much as zero.. naught…. nada….. nienta …. and niet…
19 Dec 2011, 22:48 pm
@ashampoopaloo-285: Exposed… I see you know jackshit about Jacobi… Like Nephilim you are crushed by a flood of knowledge, logos and logic… An annunaki insect… A locust that missed the bus and flew to the wrong plague…
Basically confused shitless… and shitscared of the Truth.
19 Dec 2011, 22:58 pm
you just like that other nonentity new age science religion bashing believer who believes he got the patent out on ‘original thought’ when oh when did you mindless misled meandering megalithic moegoes stumble upon this bullshit you call brains?
You think information represents knowledge, you think Wiki holds the key to wisdom and understanding… you think Harvard and Oxford got the keys toward enlightenment… you stupefied ignoramus stupendously bamboozled dunces don’t know absolutely next to emphatically nothing yet…
19 Dec 2011, 23:03 pm
@ashampoopaloo-287: What I do know without a shadow of doubt is that you know absolutely nothing about what you are posting… zero…
Like a laaitie learning his first swear word… and repeating ad nauseum while knowing farkall about its meaning… you to a farken tee.
19 Dec 2011, 23:05 pm
@Dawn-284:
My boat a tug
Into a harbour
Needs…
Padawan.
19 Dec 2011, 23:08 pm
@ashampoopaloo-287: See, it’s not just me that says you’re the biggest phony in town.
Two glasses of box wine with your supper and you think you’re all tralala and deep.
19 Dec 2011, 23:08 pm
@Heavens Game-288: you like to think you know.. what you don’t know.. that much you may like to or pretend to know.. though I doubt sincerely you even know that much… About me you know absolutely fark all.. and that much is absolute fact… you think you can know or fathom me from your vantage point of inaccessible non knowing… but you don’t.. and cannot… that much is absolute fact… believe it or don’t… but me you don’t know from diddly dandy fck’all squat zero…
19 Dec 2011, 23:14 pm
@ashampoopaloo-291: No, you’re projecting… This is what you think you may know about me… However without going into any bamboozling who knows, simply put – you are wrong… You can try and box me, generalise and try to figure it all out… But I will always have the last laugh… and I am laughing now.
19 Dec 2011, 23:15 pm
@>^..^< katman-290: guess how many people hailed JC as the messiah when he lived and was alive.. or how many thought Socrates was non compos mentis insane ?? Yip you one of the crowd… you would have crucified or poisoned them both… even of their disciples when it came to the wire.. their closest and dearest deserted them… that’s how much faith you yellow bellied believers have of the truth… you and this blue eyed blond haired apocalyptic bay-watch babe.. that’s how close you are to knowing who’s who in your fickle inaccurate well to do highly intelligent idiotically indoctrinated bamboozled zoo…
19 Dec 2011, 23:19 pm
@ashampoopaloo-293: You’re no messiah, bud. You’re just loopy de fckn loop. But at least people hail you as such in your lifetime, which is something I guess.
19 Dec 2011, 23:23 pm
Anyway, you’re always going on about this schmuck don’t know this and that palooka don’t know that and no one knows anything except you. So WHAT exactly is it you know? Details, please. Just the 5 main points.
19 Dec 2011, 23:27 pm
@Heavens Game-292: your false impression of super arrogance precedes you… in other words you are so out of bounds in your vanity of well read stupor that you cannot recognize reality from illusion or fact from fiction or truth from superstition.. that is how far gone deluded in self serenading vain inaccuracies of false understanding you are.. unfortunately.
19 Dec 2011, 23:30 pm
@>^..^< katman-294: who said I was anything remotely akin to any messiah.. you?
I asked you how many people hailed JC or Socrates as messiahs or wise philosophers of clear thinking when they lived.. how many was it.. now that you represent the sane well read well bred well educated intelligentsia of the masses?
20 Dec 2011, 00:31 am
another long night on Keo.
20 Dec 2011, 04:47 am
We humans are obsessed with knowing and understanding everything. Sometimes it’s ok to sit back and accept that something is beyond our comprehension or understanding. This is what all this fighting is about – people arguing over what they “know”.
20 Dec 2011, 06:06 am
As bloggers Katman contributes wit, playful banter and insightful comments. Skop contributes overwrought essay length insulting name calling, vague wishy washy unnsubstantiated sermons about the vagueness of everybody elses knowledge and a pitbull like determination to hammer square pegs into round holes.
But then we all knew that already.
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