Infighting could cost Lions
18 May 2012
The Lions will be ‘automatically relegated’ if they do not resolve a long standing dispute with franchise partners the Pumas and Leopards.
This was decided by Saru at its last executive council meeting, according to an article in the The New Age.
Official documentation in possession of the newspaper says the Lions have until the end of this season to come to an agreement with their partners (the Golden Lions, Pumas and Leopards make up the Lions franchise), who this week confirmed that negotiations relating to the repayment of outstanding broadcasting fees have failed.
‘Our endeavours to resolve this matter out of court have been unsuccessful and we have been left with no choice but to arbitrate,’ Leopards president Andre May told The New Age.
According to the official documentation, until the matter is resolved:
a) Broadcast revenue payments are to be withheld from the Lions
b) Payments of R750,000 each be made to the Pumas and Leopards
c) Automatic relegation from Super Rugby at the end of 2012 Super Rugby competition for the Lions.
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18 May 2012, 19:46 pm
@Jeraldjay(Jeraldjay)-149:
Was it in Bloem where Pietersen walked out to bat and the scoreboard said ‘welcome to South Africa, have a nice day’
18 May 2012, 19:47 pm
@JockBok(JockBok)-147:
Hey Jock, howzit going?
Where are you now?
18 May 2012, 19:47 pm
Griq 10 WP 7 after 28 mins…
18 May 2012, 19:49 pm
13 – 7. Nice Boshoff.
18 May 2012, 19:49 pm
@carol(carol)-152:
Hi Carol. In Senegal now. Gotta fly now but catch up later
18 May 2012, 19:50 pm
@Jeraldjay(Jeraldjay)-149:
Great those boys still appreciate their ‘real’ roots!
The lure of Mud Island and the mighty Pound!
18 May 2012, 19:50 pm
@JockBok(JockBok)-155:
I hasten to add it’s dinner time and then off to the pub after. It’s an Aussie site so lots of beer to consume
Bye for now.
Hi D, bye D as well
18 May 2012, 19:51 pm
Griquas – 13. WP – 10
18 May 2012, 19:51 pm
@Robzim(Robzim)-145:
Please concentrate, you are supposed to be doing commentary on this game and posting the scores!!
18 May 2012, 19:52 pm
@ 149 jeraldjay
Wasnt Jade Dernbach born here too?
18 May 2012, 19:52 pm
@JockBok(JockBok)-155:
Enjoy.
“I feel like a Tui’s or two” remember that Aussie ‘strap line’?
Another time
18 May 2012, 19:52 pm
Dusky has depressed me
No way out
18 May 2012, 19:53 pm
Carol @ 150
Hehehe- not sure but you can be sure they did not tag and release it.
18 May 2012, 19:54 pm
What happens in Senegal?
Time to Wikipedia!
18 May 2012, 19:54 pm
Griquas leading 13-10 at halftime
Province in trouble here
18 May 2012, 19:54 pm
My balcony awaits
Am gonna jump
18 May 2012, 19:55 pm
@Dawn(Dawn)-162:
Not nice of Dusky to be so honest on a Friday….. Keo is a place of fantasy and escape!
18 May 2012, 19:56 pm
@JockBok(JockBok)-151:
He scored a hundred that day.
18 May 2012, 19:56 pm
Agree with the surprise at lack of VC final thread
Anyone know where ronnie cooke plays now? A talented griqua 13, once linked with a move to WP but left SA about 4-5 yrs ago
18 May 2012, 19:56 pm
@Dawn(Dawn)-166:
What floor is your flat?
18 May 2012, 19:57 pm
@Dawn(Dawn)-166:
You have a balcony…don’t jump, open a bottle of wine and enjoy the sunset!
18 May 2012, 19:57 pm
@Robzim(Robzim)-170:
Outta here, catch you later.
18 May 2012, 19:58 pm
@carol(carol)-171:
I agree- balconies are not made for jumping
18 May 2012, 19:59 pm
Not a bad night to be watching rugby in the cold, big Bay area. Pretty chilly out there in the dark of the night.
By the way this is very unfair competition for the lowly Griquas Vodacom team.
Many of our Province players have much exposure to a higher quality game, even up to ‘Superugby’ level.
What has happened to “strength versus strength” rugby? Not fair at all.
Also unfair some Stellies school wins the bus? Surely Kimberley area needs it more.
18 May 2012, 20:00 pm
@Rage(Rage)-160:
Yes, forgot about him. He also represented England.
His great, great, grand mothers aunties friend was probably born in England.
18 May 2012, 20:06 pm
6th floor
Will it kill me?
18 May 2012, 20:07 pm
@Jokerstotheright(Mostofyou)-174:
About 70% of the Griquas team is also from Stellies and WP.
18 May 2012, 20:09 pm
Extraball is back
Now I’m really gonna jump
18 May 2012, 20:09 pm
@Dawn(Dawn)-176:
You might survive but could be badly hurt and “booked off” from posting on keo for a long time. We do not want that to happen so rather don’t jump.
18 May 2012, 20:10 pm
Penalty by karlkakillis 13 each
18 May 2012, 20:11 pm
177
Only because the area’s population is mostly Afrikaans speaking and there is no university in their Cape regional area that takes their needs into consideration.
18 May 2012, 20:12 pm
Griquas over TMO
18 May 2012, 20:14 pm
Have the underdogs scored another try against the super team?
18 May 2012, 20:14 pm
Try 18- 13 to kwas
18 May 2012, 20:14 pm
They were camping on that line so deserve the try.
18 May 2012, 20:15 pm
Oom Bushy going ballistic- he must be about 120 years old by now, his knees seem farked.
18 May 2012, 20:16 pm
@118
I have a post-game prediction
18 May 2012, 20:16 pm
@Jokerstotheright(Mostofyou)-185:
Jip, they doing well- real “in your face” rugby
18 May 2012, 20:18 pm
What if I go head first?
18 May 2012, 20:19 pm
That will make sure the 10 years on the knees comes to an abrupt and timely end.
18 May 2012, 20:19 pm
Ag no man Griquas !
18 May 2012, 20:21 pm
Even this Griqua,s crowd is much bigger than at Ellis Park at S15 games.
18 May 2012, 20:21 pm
Ja extraball. Ja.
18 May 2012, 20:23 pm
@Jokerstotheright(Mostofyou)-190: Clowns to the left of me….
18 May 2012, 20:27 pm
Stuck in the middle we are
One in the USA other in Norway
18 May 2012, 20:28 pm
Good break by the Greek Kat.
18 May 2012, 20:28 pm
Several in keeweeland
18 May 2012, 20:30 pm
Province looking better now- should have scored
18 May 2012, 20:30 pm
Are some of the opinion that this lowly vodacom game is seen outside S.A.?
18 May 2012, 20:31 pm
Fark
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