Blitzboks battle past Poms
3 Feb 2012
The Blitzboks beat England 14-10 at the Wellington Sevens to finish top of Pool B.
South Africa trailed 5-0 at the break, but took the lead when Mark Richards scored a try early in the second half. Branco du Preez then beat three defenders to give his side a nine-point cushion.
England scored their second try in the final minute of the match, but the Blitzboks secured the kick-off, won a penalty and booted the ball into touch.
Earlier in the day, Cornal Hendricks scored a brace in South Africa’s 43-0 hammering of the Cook Islands in Wellington.
Paul Treu’s charges shot to a 19-0 half-time lead thanks to tries by Hendricks, Steven Hunt and Boom Prinsloo. Frankie Horne scored soon after the restart while Hendricks added his second two minutes in. Cecil Afrika and Paul Delport added further tries to complete the rout.
The Blitzboks also recorded a 21-0 win over the United States of America. Afrika scored a brace while Hunt also got his name on the scoresheet.
South Africa will play Fiji in the Cup quarter-finals on Saturday.
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3 Feb 2012, 12:26 pm
Since all the franchises represent Provinces that are run by the Party that Governs this Country – namely the ANC… except of course the Stormers being the odd one out as the Western Cape is run by the DA… It would make sense politically and thus in the interests of real transformation to remove the one remaining franchise under DA patronage – said Stormers – to the Eastern Cape. Eastern Cape also run by ANC.
This would create better unity within SA rugby as all franchises would then be proudly South African.
3 Feb 2012, 12:27 pm
@Bod-46:
3 Feb 2012, 12:30 pm
@David-52: How did SARU allow the Lions financial quagmire to continue unabated? this is irresponsible mos
In court papers filed in the South Gauteng High Court Deon van der Walt, the corporate finance executive for Gumede’s Guma Group, reads in part: “The object of the application is to bring about the winding-up of the respondent (Ellis Park Stadium which owns the Lions) on the grounds that it is unable to pay its debts.”
The recent success of the Lions on the field appears not to have been matched by its administrators, who stand accused of racking up huge debts of about R70m.
Court documents filed this week reveal that the Lions’ auditors, PricewaterhouseCoopers, wrote in May 2010 that the ability of the company to continue as a going concern depended on its ability to return to profitability.
Van der Walt included the financial figures for the 2007 to 2010 financial years, describing it as a “dramatic and continuing decline in the factual solvency”.
The Golden Lions’ financial woes have spiralled since 2007 when the company’s total liabilities exceeded its total assets as follows:• 2007: R48.6m;• 2008: R49.6m;• 2009: R63.7m;• 2010: R73.9m.
The rugby union’s financial situation is said to have deteriorated even further since then and, according to Van der Walt, the rugby union approached Absa Bank in October 2010 with a request to extend the terms of repayment of its overdraft.
“Absa was only willing to extend the period subject to the applicants’ (Guma TAC) providing a letter of undertaking to confirm future funding.”
He also refers to an email dated February 15, 2011, that indicated at the time that the Lions had no funding to cover the costs of last year’s opening match in the Super Rugby tournament at Ellis Park against the Bulls.
This was in fact a few days before the kick-off at Ellis Park and the Lions had no money to pay the master of ceremonies, the dancers and other entertainers, Van der Walt stated in his court papers.
However, Lions president Kevin de Klerk has disputed he claims and insists the club was financially sound and was not facing possible liquidation. Earlier this month, De Klerk said: “You can only be liquidated if your debts exceed your assets and I can say truthfully that is not the case (with the GLRU).
“Our assets exceed our debts considerably and we also have Altmann (Allers, the owner of Glasfit and GLRU deputy president) who has stepped in as our new equity partner. He has already invested substantially in the GLRU.”
According to Van der Walt’s statement, Guma TAC made it possible for the Lions to become the 2011 Currie Cup champions. As part of the agreement for 49% shares in the rugby union, R171 000 was paid as part of the salary for the New Zealand conditioning coach, Wayne Taylor.
“By June 2010 when the applicants (Guma TAC) started negotiations, the Golden Lions had lost all their 2010 Super Rugby games and all their matches in the less competitive domestic Currie Cup competition,” Van der Walt stated.
“The applicants’ funding allowed the Lions to pay for the salaries of the players, coaches and staff, to buy international and local players and employ other value adding staff to improve the team’s performance culminating in them winning the Currie Cup in 2011.”
Matters came to a head after Robert Gumede’s Guma Group pulled out of an investment deal with the Golden Lions Rugby Union last June. Reacting to the court application, Golden Lions’ president Kevin de Klerk said yesterday that Guma TAC was entitled to pursue what legal action they chose and the GLRU would defend same.
3 Feb 2012, 12:32 pm
@Heavens Game-51:
Watte kuk praat jy.
You been back here too long already
3 Feb 2012, 12:41 pm
@Heavens Game-51: good idea
@Transformation-53: its clear Kevin hasn’t heard of commercial insolvency before.
3 Feb 2012, 12:49 pm
Transformation
Please translate this GL hanna hanna into plain English.
In two sentences.
3 Feb 2012, 12:52 pm
@trupisero-55: when were the cats dissolved? because it looks like the lions haven’t been financially sound since they broke away from the cheetahs.
3 Feb 2012, 12:52 pm
@Heavens Game-51:
Helen Godzilla loves the Stormers, she will never allow any merger with the Cheeky brigade.
3 Feb 2012, 12:54 pm
Sounds like Altman Allers is the answer to all of the world’s problems.
3 Feb 2012, 12:55 pm
@Dawn-56: die lions is in die kak en hettie 2 bob om hul se skuld te betaalie
3 Feb 2012, 12:58 pm
@Dawn-56: the Lions have been run like a SPAZA shop since 2007!
they are like a big hole where SARU chucks money and they owe their franchise partners millions.
3 Feb 2012, 12:59 pm
@Transformation-57: 2006 methinks
3 Feb 2012, 13:01 pm
@Transformation-61:
Now why don’t you just say so!
3 Feb 2012, 13:11 pm
A xhosa spaza shop or a Somalian spaza shop?
Because those are two different things.
3 Feb 2012, 13:18 pm
Does the GLRU own Ellis Park?
Well then sell the fckng thing, pay off the debts, rent elsewhere (Soweto?) until you’re in a position to choose and then use the breathing space to build a new dynasty. Not only will this get the Gumede sharks off their backs, it will also ditch that Doornfontein white elephant.
3 Feb 2012, 13:20 pm
@the artist formerly known as gunther-64:
limpopo province spaza shop?
3 Feb 2012, 13:33 pm
@the artist formerly known as gunther-33:
@RL-40: Retract those claws pussycat, was a smart move going it alone, shows they had faith we could make it alone.
3 Feb 2012, 14:19 pm
@>^..^< katman-65: “In court papers filed in the South Gauteng High Court Deon van der Walt, the corporate finance executive for Gumede’s Guma Group, reads in part: “The object of the application is to bring about the winding-up of the respondent (Ellis Park Stadium which owns the Lions) on the grounds that it is unable to pay its debts.”
3 Feb 2012, 15:48 pm
@>^..^< katman-65:
Yeah right sell it to who???
Maybe Kerzner in his current state of implosion would buy and and develope another One and Only Doornfontein
4 Feb 2012, 08:21 am
thought this thread was about 7′s
See blitzies were blitzed out the main comp by their eternal nemises Fiji, just got no answer to the running attrition of those big muthers, only time we beat them once was by starving them from any ball and playing for line outs like a standard 15′s game, otherwise they run rampant over and through our midgets every time.
And England got pipped at post by NZ who came from behind to clinch another semi spot.
So we get Tonga in plate final to come either 5th or 6th
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