Kings refute claims of R40m payoff
15 Jul 2012
The Southern Kings have insisted, via Twitter, that the new region will play in the 2013 Super Rugby competition.
According to Zelim Nel of the Weekend Argus, reliable sources at the Kings have confirmed that the Eastern Cape franchise will not take part in the 2013 Super Rugby competition as initially expected.
But the Kings responded on Sunday on Twitter denying the story and emphasising they won’t put a price on their non-participation.
Nel wrote Saru has paid the Kings R40 million and guaranteed their inclusion in 2016 when a new broadcast deal is brokered and the tournament is allowed to expand.
In January, it was confirmed that the Kings would participate in the 2013 Super Rugby competition. However, what Saru didn’t consider was that the current broadcast deal would limit the number of teams involved in the tournament (15) and the number of teams included in the South African conference (five).
Sanzar CEO Greg Peters told keo.co.za earlier this year that the tournament structure would not change until 2016. He said it was up to Saru to decide which five teams played in 2013.
This was always going to present a problem of fitting six franchises into five slots. With the two weakest teams (the Cheetahs and Lions) refusing to merge, it seemed likely that the last-placed team in 2012 would make way for the Kings in 2013.
However, the last-placed Lions have moved to fight their impending relegation over the last few months. The upshot is they will continue to play Super Rugby in 2013 and the current five South African franchises will compete in the tournament until 2016.
Apart from inclusion in the 2013 Super Rugby competition, the Kings will also be guaranteed a place in the Currie Cup Premier Division from 2013. They will reportedly use the R40 million to build up to 2016.
Sources at the Kings say there is some uncertainty as to what happens now with regards to the coaches and players that have already been brought to the franchise.
It is believed that they have not been that successful in luring many top players to the region. With their Super Rugby entry set to be further delayed, that struggle will surely continue.
190 Comments
Pages: « 1 2 3 [4] Show All
15 Jul 2012, 17:57 pm
@stormerforlife1(stormerforlife1)-149:
hey Stormer Howzit
You think kings are going to be better than Lions?
I am not so sure yet
15 Jul 2012, 18:00 pm
Played 16 won 14 best ever record in super rugga. Now all of a sudden the sharks are the best but just 3 weeks ago they lost against the lions. I for one would welcome the sharks to a semi at newlands jus to make their fans stfu.
15 Jul 2012, 18:01 pm
i feel for the Lions players .
I thought they played there hardest under difficult conditions with a dictator of a coach, and had numerous injuries over the full season.
i thought they were competitive most of the games, were unlucky and played attractive positive rugby
15 Jul 2012, 18:06 pm
@Namwp(Namwp)-152:
I was saying that yesterday and a few people kept reminding me what kuk rugby they played and they cant score tries or get bonus points.
I could not understand how anyone can criticize at team that topped the whole comp.
They played their style and won 14 games and did not need the bonus points
15 Jul 2012, 18:08 pm
Correct Nam,but I doubt it that they can beat the Reds at Suncorp.Remember ,only the Stormers have won there in more than 20 matches played.
15 Jul 2012, 18:09 pm
@Namwp(Namwp)-152: but the Sharks gave a dose of “stfu” to the Stormers a few rounds back?….. Have you forgotten about that?
15 Jul 2012, 18:12 pm
Yes coach kak rugby will win you 14 games. I am so sick of these sharks and bull suporters always trying to knock the stormers and not seeing the faults in their own mediocre teams.
15 Jul 2012, 18:13 pm
I doubt it very much coach,but can’t we have a change of scenery in the form of new suckers.
. PE is closer to CT and I can make a long weekend of it watching our beloved table-topping Stormers at the PE stadium as well as catching up on family time. 
15 Jul 2012, 18:14 pm
@Namwp(Namwp)-157: oh you poor little victim you! Grow some balls dude.
15 Jul 2012, 18:16 pm
@stormerforlife1(stormerforlife1)-158:
Now thats a very good reason
15 Jul 2012, 18:17 pm
@wooden spoon(wooden spoon)-156:
I am not sure who is going to win at Newlands
I feel Sharks can beat reds
Sharks are playing good rugby i will admit but i am still going to support my Stormers at Newlands to win
Now the Crusaders thats another story
15 Jul 2012, 18:18 pm
Wood never forgot that still don’t make the sharks the better team. The rebels beat the crusaders does that make them a better team? Lions beat you guys does that my the lions a better team. Just asking lower rank teams can always have a upset or two just like the shars stormer game.
15 Jul 2012, 18:19 pm
And for the record I am one of the many Stormer supporters who will be cheering wildly for both Sharks and Bulls
15 Jul 2012, 18:20 pm
@wooden spoon(wooden spoon)-156: So the results are in and read as follows:
STFU’S 2012 S15:
Sharks received 6 and dished out 10
Stormers received 2 and dished out 14
Stormers have a 2 week holiday.
Sharks packing their gold chains and crocs for an Aussie excursion.
Now STFU and start planting pins in your Genia and Cooper dolls.
15 Jul 2012, 18:22 pm
@CoachPete(CoachPete)-163: Coach you are one of the good ‘uns though. You will be in the minority!
@The Sharks rugby pedigree is packaged by Mad Eye Productions.(The Sharks rugby pedigree is packaged as dog food)-164: Skyewalker the squirrel hunting multinic, is that you?
15 Jul 2012, 18:22 pm
Hy woody woodpecker the only pair you know are on you chin every night.
15 Jul 2012, 18:24 pm
@wooden spoon(wooden spoon)-165:
Thanks
I think if you talking here with the bloggers maybe yes. I am really talking about the whole of SA and all the Saffas world wide they will be behind Sharks and Bulls
15 Jul 2012, 18:26 pm
@wooden spoon(wooden spoon)-159:
You probably never been passed the tunnel, you live like the hill billy’s in the USA. You do know there is life past the mountain. You battle to go as far a paarl and now you are going to PE. K A K
15 Jul 2012, 18:26 pm
Hahaha.You are hilarious pedigree girl.Poor old spooner has been a willing sucker for punishment all day now.
15 Jul 2012, 18:32 pm
@wooden spoon(wooden spoon)-165: That’s a new one, haven’t heard that name before. Ok, so now I am Grant no 10, Helen, UFO, Nikita, ‘Just a rugby’ or something like that, Ryan Vrede, and a squirrel hunting skyewalker.
You Sharkies OWN paranoia……
15 Jul 2012, 18:34 pm
Stormerforlife woody makes me laugh him and hg are Keo’s greates comedians.
15 Jul 2012, 18:35 pm
@umkhonto(umkhonto)-168: don’t understand your ramblings, sorry!
@Namwp(Namwp)-166: you can do better than that, surely!
@stormerforlife1(stormerforlife1)-169: I have just shat out a Capo **** and flushed it to the sea. You are deluded.
@The Sharks rugby pedigree is packaged by Mad Eye Productions.(The Sharks rugby pedigree is packaged as dog food)-170: but you are a multinic, no? Just a matter of time before we find out which ones. Skyewalker’s absence is notable. What is it with Stormers and their multinics?
It is so easy and fun playing with Stormergirls. About as easy as the Sharks found playing the Stormers recently.
15 Jul 2012, 18:35 pm
So, you are also Ryan Vrede ,pedigree?Silly varkies!!
15 Jul 2012, 18:36 pm
Capo t.u.r.d. is not allowed. What is this world coming to?
15 Jul 2012, 18:36 pm
Woody needs a good shrink madness I tell you madness.
15 Jul 2012, 18:37 pm
As fun as it has been toying with you hormonal Stormer girls, I’m out.
15 Jul 2012, 18:40 pm
Woody goes has a w a n k and comes back ready for a spanking.
15 Jul 2012, 18:41 pm
Where is ghetto boy, Tyrone?Probably lighting candles for Lambie.
15 Jul 2012, 18:43 pm
@wooden spoon(wooden spoon)-176: “Woo Spoo the cowardly schizo”. Don’t go. I was at Newlands yesterday and with family today – in other words, I spent the weekend surrounded by people with a true love for and a great knowledge of the beautiful game.
After all that rugby class, pedigree and knowledge, I am in the mood for some eeeeeeeeeeeeeeejit rugby talk – something that only Sharkies of the Woo Spoo, HG and Fern can provide. Stay.
15 Jul 2012, 18:45 pm
Woody is not too bad.Just a bit delusional,hormonal,emotional,paranoid,seeing ghosts behind every tree ,but other than that he is quite a normal and good guy.
15 Jul 2012, 18:49 pm
Got to love those sharkies fans they really provide great comic relief. Nam signing off
15 Jul 2012, 18:51 pm
Ag let him go.It’s time for his daily bum spank with our ex police buddy predawn.He loves the smell of metal on his wrists and bedposts,so,just let him run off.
15 Jul 2012, 19:26 pm
i wish people would stop undermining the kings. this is pure speculation
and yet KEO has a Poll running refering to it as FACT. whn the union just
refuted the claim. and refering to the quetion how can the kings be better
than the lions lol. How cant they, the lions are a poorly run franchise who
cant seem to pull sponsors in the most fincialy vibrant part of your beautiful
country :/
its time anotha province got a chance, the joburg area still has the Bulls not
to far away, and the cheetahs arent exactly miles away either.
starting a super rugby franchise in EP makes sense both financiali and Sociali.
and im not even from EP and for years i lived in joburg
the amount of sponsors that would line up to be associated with the Kings is.
my last two cars were build in that area
im tired of the lions, they might have won the currie cup, and deservedly so,
but they have wasted so many years, doin the one step forward two step back
approach
i can make a case for all four other franchises, but not the lions. they
should be in the same situation as the leopards, Griquas, pumas, boland,
border.
its time for fresh start
ie feeder unions for super rugby franchises
15 Jul 2012, 21:42 pm
@numba4lock(numba4lock)-183:
> im tired of the lions,
We’re tired of the political beast called the Kings, their chief political commissar Cheeky Watson, as well as his son and president of the Southern Kings Youth League, Lukie Pukie Watson
Paying 40 million Rand to get rid of both of them is the bargain of the century
> they might have won the currie cup, and deservedly so
At least they did
A good start would be if the Kings could win any cup first, even the also-ran First division one?
And then try to win the real Currie Cup once?
Only then might they compare themselves to the Lions, who have won 10 Currie Cups through the years
15 Jul 2012, 22:37 pm
It’s been how many years since the kings spears… whatever… have been trying to get into super rugby? frikin damn now they promise theyll be ready for 2016 haha over ten years since they blew a wad of cash from saru that was unaccountable. nah these chumps will never have what it takes 40 mil wasted on **** all.
15 Jul 2012, 22:39 pm
@victoriabok(victoriabok)-184: the kings cant even beat the lions. yeah they go on and on about how rubbish the lions are but they have never beaten them and they know they never can beat them hence avoiding a wooden spoon play-off hahaha
16 Jul 2012, 07:34 am
This is a ploy by the EP administrators to get the R40mill increased. Probably just realized that there isn’t enough to meet all the backhanders.
16 Jul 2012, 07:58 am
@galileo, roundness, union, coach…(i_love_u_bakkiesbotha)-60: Like Marius Jonker & Stefan Breytenbach gave the Bulls 4 underserved points against us at Loftus? The Bulls most certainly don’t deserve to be in the playoffs and I will be most chuffed when they exit the competition this coming weekend.
With or without “cheating Kiwis” as you like to call them.
You one-eyed loser.
16 Jul 2012, 22:43 pm
Pot kettle? Ironic hey mr brumbie?
18 Jul 2012, 19:28 pm
@whatever(whatever)-189: I was waiting for something like that.
Don’t forget, two wrongs don’t make a right…
Pages: « 1 2 3 [4] Show All
Have your say
You must be logged in to post a comment.