Go Kings Go!

So some cash, a sponsor or two and suddenly you have a viable team. Look at the Rebels. They were **** at first, granted, but look at them now. They just beat the Crusaders.

Did the Rebels win any regional or provincial championships before Super Rugby? No they didnt. But now the Kings, who are NOT the EP team, must win the Vodacom Cup before they get an opportunity? What would that prove?

Which team currently has the Currie Cup in their trophy cupboard? Ah, the Lions. and has their success in the CC translated to a brilliant Super 15?

no. dear lord no.

I dont agree with how SARU has handled the whole affair from the start and from an administrative point of view, i think the Lions have been unfairly treated. I agree that they should make way for another team, but they could have had better information from the start.

I do however feel that Super Rugby in the Eastern Cape will be good for SA rugby in the long run.

lets forget for a minute who will replace them. Are you saying the Lions deserve a spot at the table?

If a ref had performed like the lions he would have been fired years ago, or lynched.

dit gaan oor politiek ja die lions is pateties. maar gaan die kings beter doen. Ek twyfel
die vraag is hoekom is die Kings n Super spot aangebied in die eerste plek.

History will tell you they may not be stronger Coach, mishmash of players with zero identity is hard to work no matter how much money you throw at them.

Yeah, my bru is up and down like a yo-yo. Hard weekend coming up as well, will get them in now…

A cats team would be stronger and do fairly well, but I do think the Players still have their loyalties for most part, and may not for a cats team, however nice salaries and bonuses motivate people
I feel right now if there was a play off it must be with Lions and they will eat the Kings alive Then what?
There is the suggestion that once the Kings are in the Super 15, good players may be looking at them to sign which will change the dynamics of the team
We will see
And Your superbru picks? Time to start taking risks?

The Cats was and will be a non-entity with limited support from both unions, why break up two unions to make place for a third? Of course it is hard to swallow for Cheetah and Lions supporters and of course it is easy for you to say it is reality, your team will not be affected.

I will tell you what reality is, thousands have been spend over the last few years to build up the Cheetahs. Not a champion winning side yet but one that has been playing a brand of rugby making them the second team of many punters at home and overseas. Merge them with the Lions and all that will go down the drain, I had little affinity for the Cats before and I will have little going forward. The Lions can fight their own battles and they can sort out their own house in their own time, I do not want any of it as a Cheetah supporter,.

You halfway there, the original plan was for it to be a fight between the Cheetahs and the Kings for the 5th spot. When the evaluation came out however, the Cheetahs ended second (not first like some said) and the fight for the final spot was between the Kings and…yip, you guessed it, the Lions.

And this is where the pawpaw hit the fan because every man and his dog was ready to kick out the Cheetahs at the time and nobody had an issue with that. Kicking out the Lions was not on the menu and we all know how that ended.

Turn the clock forward a few years and what do you get? A CC winning Lions in a fight with the lowly Cheetahs to see who will be dropped to make place for the Kings. Again the expectation was for the Cheetahs to end up last and problem solved. So I wonder how this one will end…

Rugby is a business, the players simply put, employees. What happens to a company when their employees don’t perform and their product to market is ****? They go under. Maybe this will force a restructure and maybe a rethink of the Lions “business plan”.

In the last couple of years it became more and more obvious decisions in rugby (rule changes, tournament formats, etc.) was made on what will bring in more money.

For example: S15 format – Top team from each franchise automatically qualify for playoffs, even if the team doesn’t qualify on log points. Why? Viewer interest from all three conferences. World Cup – Aus beat SA. This win assured a Northern Hemisphere team and a Southern Hemisphere team will play in the finals, keeping viewers interested from both parts of the world.

So the question I ask myself (and those who’d like to conspire with me) – Where is the money in the “Kings inclusion to S15″ decision?

Jurie Roux? But from who?
Saru? Why?

Now…let me really go conspiracy freaky on you…

What about Supersport? Should the Kings be included in the S15, how many DSTV subscriptions will they sell? Doesn’t the Eastern Cape have the lowest percentage people subscribed to DSTV?

…Just asking?