Cheeky still not satisfied
16 Aug 2012
EPRU president Cheeky Watson says the Kings want a three-year Super Rugby guarantee from Saru.
The Kings will play Super Rugby in 2013 but it may only be for one year as the bottom-placed team in the SA conference will have to play a two-match promotion-relegation tie against the Lions.
‘I think it is a ludicrous decision,’ Watson said after Saru’s general council meeting in Cape Town. ‘It doesn’t make sense in rugby, not in business, not in the church. It doesn’t make sense in any sector of society that you are sitting with a scenario that you are in Super Rugby for one year and expected to achieve.’
Watson later told Ballz Radio that the Kings wanted a guaranteed place in Super Rugby for the next three years and would appeal Saru’s decision.
Meanwhile, GLRU president Kevin de Klerk said he was ‘extremely disappointed’ with the Lions’ relegation from Super Rugby.
‘This is a very unfortunate decision, which will result in a team [the Kings] taking part in a competition without needing to qualify on rugby merits. We will take time to consider this decision and then to plan our response that best protects our players, staff, stakeholders and supporters.’
The Lions will hold a press conference on Tuesday to address the matter.
39 Comments
16 Aug 2012, 17:27 pm
get rid of either the Melbourne or Perth teams. Oops, sorry I forgot….we are subsidising Australian rugby growth at the expense of ours…….
16 Aug 2012, 17:32 pm
Cheeky needs a fukn bullet yes! Then everyone will be happy.
16 Aug 2012, 18:23 pm
Cheeky bugger!!!
16 Aug 2012, 18:28 pm
“‘It doesn’t make sense in rugby, not in business, not in the church. ” why even bring up church ?
Bakkies psychology ;do something naughty then remind people you go to church hahaha
16 Aug 2012, 18:44 pm
In the church? What holy spirit are you tripping on, Watson? A year is about 365 days more than you deserve. Tell your buddies at the Griffons, Leopards etc you won’t be gone long.
16 Aug 2012, 18:49 pm
Cheeky is quite simply really.
Don’t come last in the S15 but if you do just win your relegation match against these “kak” Lions.
16 Aug 2012, 19:08 pm
Cheeky, you didn’t earn promotion, it’s been handed to you on a platter, so how can you now ***** about the ” present” you have been given ?? Put up and shut up !!
16 Aug 2012, 19:18 pm
Cheeky Watson is the white Malema.
Just expects everything for nothing.
16 Aug 2012, 19:31 pm
Guarantees are for teams that win.
Make it happen yourselves.
16 Aug 2012, 19:39 pm
“‘I think it is a ludicrous decision,’ Watson said after Saru’s general council meeting in Cape Town. ‘It doesn’t make sense in rugby, not in business, not in the church. It doesn’t make sense in any sector of society”
I agree, the Kings is NOT a good business or rugby decision
Just because the comrades vultures need a new carcass to feed on doesn’t justify it in the real; world
Die tyd sal nog leer
16 Aug 2012, 19:54 pm
AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
Cheeky really does have his “we demand” down pat, doesn’t he?
16 Aug 2012, 19:55 pm
Only in SA would anyone even listen to someone called “Cheeky”.
But we’ve got a whole blog dedicated to him and his son
16 Aug 2012, 20:11 pm
the complaint is without merit
promo/relegation will be a yearly occurence until the format is rejigged.
they will get a shot every year as will the lions.
16 Aug 2012, 20:26 pm
@i_love_u_bakkiesbotha-13:
> the complaint is without merit
For Cheeky it’s got merit, he wants to plant his snout in the money trough and keep it there
A year or two simply won’t do
16 Aug 2012, 21:18 pm
Fully agree with cheeky. This feels like the days when the boks played 2 wings of color just to make the numbers. ik
16 Aug 2012, 21:27 pm
@sparticus-15:
Het jy op jou kop geval?
16 Aug 2012, 21:35 pm
Suck it up, Watson. Do the Christian thing and spread the other cheeky.
16 Aug 2012, 21:38 pm
Cheeky is absolutely right.Getting a new franchise in without protection against relegation is simply just crazy.Saru is totally out of sync with other sporting bodies who guaranteed their new franchises against relegation for at least two years.Case in point the Catalan Dragons in rugby league.Rugby League in England expanded the game to France as a total new territory ,but they realised that they simply could not expose the newcomers to relegation after the first season.A franchise like the Kings needs to sort out contracts for new players and might find it difficult to attract quality players with the prospect of only one year in super rugby.It also takes time to develop a new team/ brand and rugby culture.It certainly can’t be done in one year.
16 Aug 2012, 21:48 pm
Is Cheeky tacitly accepting that the Kings are destined to finish last of the SA teams in 2013?
It really is a simple equation Cheeky. Finish higher than another SA team and your precious team get to stay a bit longer….
16 Aug 2012, 21:49 pm
Do the Kings “deserve” to be there in the first place? NO! So accept the lucky break you have achieved and shut the fark up!
16 Aug 2012, 21:51 pm
The Kings will be able to attract the Lions’ best players with the lure of Super Rugby. If they can’t then beat the severely weakened Lions at the end of one year of Super Rugby, then they deserve to be eliminated.
16 Aug 2012, 21:55 pm
All this has ever been about is giving Cheeky a golden handshake. How many black players do you think will play for the Kings in Super Rugby? How many play for them now? The Kings will just be the Lions under a different name – and two different Kiwi coaches.
16 Aug 2012, 21:57 pm
@kaksioek-21: if the Kings are simply going to be the Lions, then whats the point of the Kings? I thought the Kings idea was all about unlocking the talent in the hotbed of black rugby in SA?
16 Aug 2012, 22:03 pm
@kaksioek-22:
It’s a shame SARU and Cheeky messed it up
SARU should have entreched the Kings in the CC since 2005 and gave them a few friendlies before the season against the franchises and a few against the Aussie teams as well they would have been ready for inclusion once the current franchise contracts run out
The Kings could have developed a lot of local (black) players and a black coach as well, like Treu
Then the team would have had the support of the whole country
16 Aug 2012, 22:05 pm
@Humphrey-23: Bingo: there is no point to the Kings.
16 Aug 2012, 22:25 pm
@kaksioek-25: well the Kings have just made their 1st couple of signings…
Catrakilis from WP and Deon Van Rensburg from the Lions.
How does this assist the “transformation” of SA rugby? Which black players are they going to keep out of the team?
16 Aug 2012, 22:40 pm
@Humphrey-26:
It was never about transformation
It was about $$$$$ in Cheeky’s pocket
16 Aug 2012, 23:17 pm
Delusions of grandeur
“doesn’t make sense in the church”
You’d think a senseless decision would be right at home in a church. Ironic init
16 Aug 2012, 23:24 pm
He needs a PK, then he’ll be satisified
Any volunteers?
16 Aug 2012, 23:33 pm
Bye bye lions. 10years of absolute k@k super rugby and putridness has finally ended.Big Welcome to the Kings, they surely need 10 yrs as well to prove themselves?
17 Aug 2012, 02:50 am
@Slappes-30:
For what? Kak as the Lions were, they can at least say they earned their Super Rugby spot way back when. The Kings earned fokkal, never have, never will.
And those who don’t earn it almost always end up seeing their arses. Enjoy your lone year in Super Rugby, Slappes.
And as for Cheeky Watson, the only ludicrous decision is giving his rabble mob a Super Rugby spot on a platter. Idiot.
17 Aug 2012, 03:40 am
Oh dear…problems in the Republic AGAIN….is there any other scenario out of SA….NOPE…you have a circus masquerading as a Government, you have a Rugby Union that is not just dysfunctional but has no vision let alone kahonees (balls), so next years S15 will have a whipping boy of a Team called the Southern Kings…what a joke, what a disgrace that SA brings to the SH competition….and to XV take a jump SA doesnt subsidise anyone but a Team that has a one year contract to perform and guess what…they will be weighed, measured and found wanting…just like your SARFU and Government … go the Australiasians….
17 Aug 2012, 03:42 am
Actually I would just wish SA would go North and play with the Northerners…kind fits your style of play…leave the good rugby to NZ and Aus Teams …oh the Argies…but you guys are just moaners and boy how you turn on your own…WOW…it is mind blowing..
17 Aug 2012, 04:34 am
@JohnPierre-33:
You’re correct about the mess it’s beyond a joke and SANZAR should be setting them straight… you’re incorrect about taking the world’s 3rd best team from the toughest provincial competition in the world… all of NZAR would be instantly fiscally crippled and they’d kiss their provincial players and leagues good-bye…
But then again from your comments… no offence mate… you don’t sound like a numerical genius…
17 Aug 2012, 05:21 am
@bryce_in_oz-34:
Why limit it to ‘numerical’?
17 Aug 2012, 07:13 am
The record-books will be rewritten as the Southern Kinks get utterly smoked by 50 point and upward margins, week after cringeworthy week. It’ll make all of SA rugby as much of a global laughing stock as Equatorial Guinean swimming.
17 Aug 2012, 07:31 am
As much as a a joke as a Japie who wishes he was a Kiwi?
Surely not?
17 Aug 2012, 08:19 am
@JohnPierre-33: You’re are funny one, must be a reds or saders supporter, bitter over missing out. My thinking is that you must be an ozzi, because their the only idiots that want to go back to the good old days where the betislow cup actually ment something.
17 Aug 2012, 15:06 pm
What good does it do to import players from the Lions. Wake up Kings. If they want to go forward, why import the players from the worst SR team ?
By the way, the Eastern Cape is not only made up of players of other colours !
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