Saru, franchises to hold talks

Saru, franchises to hold talks

8 May 2012

The South African Rugby Union and five franchises are set for a showdown, with the key point of discussion likely to be the implications of the Kings’ inclusion in Super Rugby.

While Saru spokesperson Andy Colquhoun could provide no details on the agenda, it is expected that the prickly issue of how a sixth South African franchise will be accommodated in next year’s tournament will be worked through. In January Saru’s general council guaranteed the Kings’ inclusion in 2013. However, they had no clear plan as to how to decide which franchise lost out.

Click here to listen to Keo’s radio interview with Darren Scott about the Kings

They attempted to bully Sanzar into including a sixth franchise, but, speaking to keo.co.za, CEO Greg Peters shattered those hopes by insisting that the tournament structure had been agreed on by all franchises and sold to the broadcasters and commercial partners in a deal that runs until 2015.

‘The reality is that expansion of Super Rugby is not possible at this stage,’ Peters told keo.co.za. ‘Before their inclusion, the Kings’ aspirations were discussed in detail. How they are accommodated is a domestic issue for South Africa. And while we are always open to dialogue on this issue, it is incumbent upon them to make the necessary adjustments to facilitate the Kings’ inclusion.’

Saru later issued a statement saying that they were preparing to take a delegation to meet Sanzar representatives in order to lobby their cause, but later explained they needed more time to prepare their case.

In the absence of a clear agenda one can confidently assume this issue will take precedence. The Times quoted Colquhoun as saying: ‘If any decisions are taken, they cannot be implemented at that meeting and would have to go to the Saru general council before coming into effect.’ Colquhoun also confirmed that CEO Jurie Roux and president Oregan Hoskins would be among those attending the meeting.


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  • 1.stormersboy: Reply to this comment
    8 May 2012, 09:35 am

    Kitty Cats Dragon??

  • 2.John Galt: Reply to this comment
    8 May 2012, 09:37 am

    Is there an echo in here?

  • 3.THE MAULER: Reply to this comment
    8 May 2012, 09:37 am

    Seems the franchises are standing together…

  • 4.RL: Reply to this comment
    8 May 2012, 09:40 am

    Are you Keo boys such mental Imp’s that you cannot get it? There is no way in hell that your political rent boys form the EC will be playing superrugby in 2013. Do you really think that the last placed team that finishes in 2012, 2013 and 2014 will accept automatic relegation to make way for the team that sat out the previous tournament, excluding the Kings if course.

  • 5.Transformation: Reply to this comment
    8 May 2012, 09:44 am

    the so-called financial hub of south africa has the LOWEST Test prices than PE :roll:

    England Tour to South Africa

    Venue: Coca-Cola Park
    Date: 16 June 2012 17:00
    R350.00 : East Lower
    R325.00 : East Upper
    R250.00 : North Lower
    R175.00 : North Upper

    Venue: Mr Price Kings Park
    Date: 9 June 2012 17:05
    R477 : East Upper

    Venue: Nelson Mandela Bay Stadium
    Date: 23 June 2012 17:00
    R500.00 : Level 2 and Wheelchair Area
    R300.00 : Level 5 and Level 6

  • 6.Jibber-Jabber: Reply to this comment
    8 May 2012, 09:46 am

    Crunch time? Semms like something is going to be crunched …

  • 7.Jibber-Jabber: Reply to this comment
    8 May 2012, 09:46 am

    Oops … semms = seems

  • 8.BrumbiesBoy: Reply to this comment
    8 May 2012, 09:51 am

    Hmmmmmmm…some years back I recall the Sharks striking a R400 000 deal with the then EPRU (read Spears & later Kings) that the Eastern Cape would give up ALL hosting & TV rights in exchange for the cash. Details are fuzzy at the moment but perhaps somebody out there could recall more details.

    Reading between the lines in this article I am now getting intrigued as to the part that the Sharks will play in this meeting…

  • 9.RL: Reply to this comment
    8 May 2012, 09:55 am

    @Transformation(Transformation)-5: come now transformer you can do better than that.

    Fact is you conveniently leave out the pricing for the other stands, you know the Den has north, south, west and east stands. You also conviniently leave our the 300 or so VIP suites that the Den has which is 100% sold out for test matches.

    You also forget to mention that the financial hub of SA will be hosting not one but two test matches this season, that is 150000.00 thousands sold out tickets and 500 sold out VIP suites for two matches …all going into the pockets of the GLRU, minus SARU’s share and Soccer City’s share for stadium rental. Get it?

  • 10.stormersboy: Reply to this comment
    8 May 2012, 09:55 am

    This whole Eastern Cape thing is based on what?

    It is the home of rugby for many people?? Who are these people and why are they not playing for clubs in the Eastern Cape? Aren’t there bizzilions of clubs there?? No? I wonder why.

    All the good players leave because they want to play for a top club?? Cry me a river. Get better and they’ll stay.

    If you get a Super 15 franchise all you’ll try and do is contract all the Lions players that leave and you;ll still be left with a shite team, this time annoyed that they got relegated and playing in a foreign environment with Luke Watson as Captain. That should be one great harmonious set up.

    The guys are assuming that the Lions players will move to the Eastern Cape. Really??

    I see them going overseas, not to the most badly run province in the country,

    So it’s lose-lose.

    The morons don’t see this. All they see is the Political Ego’s who want a team in the Eastern Cape so that when they die (hopefully soon) they and all their ancestors can watch the game.

  • 11.bryce_in_oz: Reply to this comment
    8 May 2012, 09:57 am

    @Transformation(Transformation)-5:

    What’s your point… that EP is over-charging and not really the ‘vehicle for the people’ they’ve been making out to be?

  • 12.XV: Reply to this comment
    8 May 2012, 10:01 am

    @stormersboy(stormersboy)-10: talent gos where the money is. That is why the EC cannot hold onto its players. Are you still living in the amateur era?

  • 13.stormersboy: Reply to this comment
    8 May 2012, 10:02 am

    @XV(XV)-12: So are you agreeing with me??

    What’s your point?

  • 14.RL: Reply to this comment
    8 May 2012, 10:02 am

    @bryce_in_oz(bryce_in_oz)-11: exactly, their claim is to bring rugby to the hordes …. at 500 bucks a pop. :razz:

  • 15.Simon: Reply to this comment
    8 May 2012, 10:07 am

    Keo’s radio interview with Darren Scott about the Kings: http://soundcloud.com/ballzradio/ballz-blog-keo-070512

  • 16.RL: Reply to this comment
    8 May 2012, 10:10 am

    @Simon(Simon)-15: Derren Scott, someone hired the k-word journalist …. amazing.

  • 17.Bismarck Burger: Reply to this comment
    8 May 2012, 10:11 am

    @stormersboy(stormersboy)-10: I am so with you on this one. This is just a poster-boy move. It’s not about the actual substance – development, but rather about an elect few being enriched and claiming a “resurrection” of EP rugby. This is what saddens me about all the “affirmative” work in our country-it has no substance. So sad, and so embarressing

  • 18.Bismarck Burger: Reply to this comment
    8 May 2012, 10:14 am

    @bryce_in_oz(bryce_in_oz)-11: There are very few vehicles for the people left – barring the armour plated S600′s. Those are the heirs to the new “rainbow” nation

  • 19.Treehugger: Reply to this comment
    8 May 2012, 10:15 am

    Wouldn’t mind being a fly on the wall at this meeting.

  • 20.Bismarck Burger: Reply to this comment
    8 May 2012, 10:16 am

    @Treehugger(Treehugger)-19: me too. Could be a classic

  • 21.Bismarck Burger: Reply to this comment
    8 May 2012, 10:19 am

    Would actually want these discussions on TV as it might qualify as public interest. Might see the Cheque books passed under the tables

  • 22.the artist formerly known as gunther: Reply to this comment
    8 May 2012, 10:21 am

    Keo stuttering like an old MG on a cold Highveld morning.

    Very enbraboer.

  • 23.RL: Reply to this comment
    8 May 2012, 10:23 am

    @the artist formerly known as gunther(gunther)-22: really, so the dwarf lost the battle?

  • 24.Taahirah: Reply to this comment
    8 May 2012, 10:26 am

    @RL(RL)-16: No one hired him. He created the platform himself.

  • 25.Transformation: Reply to this comment
    8 May 2012, 10:27 am

    @stormersboy(stormersboy)-10: boo hoo, the team in the “financial hub” of SA is R73 million in debt, the likes of jaque fourie, willem alberts, brian mujati, louis ludik, joe van niekerk, conrad jantjies, ricky january fled like they were escaping the plague :lol:

    the lions have nothing to do with johannesburg in the same way the kings have zilch to do with bisho!

    your pathilogical hate/slip for the watson is showing :D

  • 26.viewer: Reply to this comment
    8 May 2012, 10:29 am

    When this group rejects the kings inclusion what next for the power brokers behind the kings. Watch the propaganda machine go into overdrive

  • 27.Horings: Reply to this comment
    8 May 2012, 10:31 am

    Currie Cup has six teams and Super rugby 5. The solution is easy: The Lions do not deserve Super rugby after this year’s comp (and the previous 10). Include the Kings for 2013, but the team that finishes last in that year’s comp need to be placed above the Lions in the 2013 CC to retain their place. Merging teams just does not work and this will create extra motivation for the Currie Cup.

    Some said the Currie Cup must be used as playoffs for Superrugby, but then the bigger teams will not rest their Springboks and it will be counterproductive.

  • 28.stormersboy: Reply to this comment
    8 May 2012, 10:32 am

    @Transformation(Transformation)-25: I don’t hate him. I think he’s a bad influence on a team, but I certainly don’t hate him.

    I’m not saying the Lions aren’t **** and deserve to get the boot. I think they do,

    But that has nothing to do with the Kings. They deserve it even less,.

    The Lions are the CC champs. The Kings can’t even get into the top division.

  • 29.viewer: Reply to this comment
    8 May 2012, 10:34 am

    Interesting times. If keo’s going on media, well there’s no smoke without fire

    MONEY MONEY MONEY MONEY (singing)

  • 30.Hondo: Reply to this comment
    8 May 2012, 10:34 am

    There is little doubt now that the larger portion of the rugby media in SA is serving SARU in its drive to influence the South African public to believe the Kings are a better super rugby 15 team than the Lions :(
    I followed that drive to discredit the Lions – who are terrible for sure – in favour of the King for a while , and IMO it’s defying any rugby logic but nevertheless effective in swinging the public opinion.
    Only thing left to decide is whether the SA Rugby Media is doing it to be accredited by SARU or is it just ‘business’? ;)

  • 31.trupisero: Reply to this comment
    8 May 2012, 10:34 am

    Sure it has been bandied about here that Puke is on R3 mil a year at the Queens.

    Not exactly a pay cut from £250k in the UK?

  • 32.gecko: Reply to this comment
    8 May 2012, 10:36 am

    Read this quickly as it will probably be removed from this thread. Keo’s links with the KIngs:
    rugbybanter.com/blog.html

  • 33.stormersboy: Reply to this comment
    8 May 2012, 10:39 am

    @trupisero(trupisero)-31: He was on R350. That’s almost R4.5.

    A big difference from R3 (if that’s what he;s on)

  • 34.RL: Reply to this comment
    8 May 2012, 10:40 am

    @Transformation(Transformation)-25: I reckon that the Lions will pocket around 50 million from this seasons test matches … how much do you think the EC will get from the hordes?

  • 35.Mr Black: Reply to this comment
    8 May 2012, 10:40 am

    @Transformation(Transformation)-25:

    I for one cant wait for the queens to play super rugby. I’m gonna tell you week in and week out how k@k your team are. Its gonna be fun.

    Hopefully you will dissapear like RL did this year.

    :bigfluckingblackandwhitesmile:

  • 36.stormersboy: Reply to this comment
    8 May 2012, 10:41 am

    @gecko(gecko)-32: It’s been all over the threads for days now.

    Keo doesn’t censor what gets posted here.

  • 37.viewer: Reply to this comment
    8 May 2012, 10:43 am

    Gecko

    Someone copied and pasted it on another thread

    It made me think of all the old regulars that have left this site

  • 38.WP Till I Die: Reply to this comment
    8 May 2012, 10:45 am

    @stormersboy(stormersboy)-33:

    I’m assuming you mean £350,000?

  • 39.trupisero: Reply to this comment
    8 May 2012, 10:45 am

    @stormersboy(stormersboy)-33: Sure Keo said on the interview it was £250k in which case not much of a difference.

  • 40.stormersboy: Reply to this comment
    8 May 2012, 10:46 am

    @WP Till I Die(WP-Forever)-38: LOL yes.

    Pounds. GBP

  • 41.seabiscuit: Reply to this comment
    8 May 2012, 10:46 am

    kings will get screwed over again and wont play in S15 2013, not that i care but watch :)

  • 42.stormersboy: Reply to this comment
    8 May 2012, 10:46 am

    @trupisero(trupisero)-39: just listened to it. 350.

  • 43.WP Till I Die: Reply to this comment
    8 May 2012, 10:47 am

    Speaking of money.

    I see Edward Zuma still owes R1.5 million on the lavish wedding ceremony he held in October 2011.

    How revolutionary.

  • 44.trupisero: Reply to this comment
    8 May 2012, 10:47 am

    Keo : “I don’t lie and I’m not here for the money”……

    jaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa swaer.

  • 45.WP Till I Die: Reply to this comment
    8 May 2012, 10:49 am

    @WP Till I Die(WP-Forever)-43:

    Rumour has it though it’s not Edward’s fault.

    Khulubuse showed up and the food bill went out of control.

    Hayibo.

  • 46.stormersboy: Reply to this comment
    8 May 2012, 10:51 am

    @WP Till I Die(WP-Forever)-45: hahahahaha

  • 47.gecko: Reply to this comment
    8 May 2012, 10:51 am

    @viewer(viewer)-37: Viewer, I left this site. Visit it once in a while for team news, but commenting is not worth it anymore with all the provincial/national/racist/class abuse that flows on this site. Even thetackler seems tame by comparision.

  • 48.trupisero: Reply to this comment
    8 May 2012, 10:51 am

    @stormersboy(stormersboy)-42: cool, must be going deaf ;)

  • 49.Hondo: Reply to this comment
    8 May 2012, 10:54 am

    @gecko(gecko)-32:
    It just confirmed my thinking, the media campaign to discredit the Lions in favour of the Kings has gone too obvious!
    The Lions however should have done better to support their case, playing Janjies in SuperRugby was not the way to meet their challenge

  • 50.WP Till I Die: Reply to this comment
    8 May 2012, 10:55 am

    @stormersboy(stormersboy)-46:

    Broad-based empowerment, indeed.

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