Comments on: Kings suffer big setback

By: umkhonto

umkhonto — Sat, 06 Oct 2012 09:47:11 +0000

I don’t really care how the Kings get their players as long as the Lions are clever enough to hold onto their players next year. The Lions are having a Lunch either next week or the one after and are going to reveal their road ahead. Rumour has it that the Sharks and Bulls are also helping to put these games together for the Lions.

By: Rhys7

Rhys7 — Sat, 06 Oct 2012 09:02:39 +0000

Another point is that many Argentine players would want to play in the S.H because international duty really pisses off their Top14 bosses.

By: Rhys7

Rhys7 — Sat, 06 Oct 2012 09:01:14 +0000

Saru is full of rubbish. All they do is think of themselves and it drives me up the wall.
They were the ones who caused the mess up by not letting both the Lions & Kings know early enough so now the Kings face pre season trying to find SA players who want to play Kings rugby & the Lions face losing their top players without time to replace them.
Its a pathetic situation the saru have caused because once again they do things with the idea that the IRB or SANZAR will just let them e.g. Expand the tournament. That should have been done earlier to make sure & as soon as this happens SARU then.make themselves out to be the victims. The whole thing is an absolute disgrace!

By: Predawn

Predawn — Sat, 06 Oct 2012 08:02:13 +0000

@mamma_lou-30: Never mind the black talent coming through from high school level. They aren't good enough for Cheeky.

By: BrumbiesBoy

BrumbiesBoy — Sat, 06 Oct 2012 07:21:33 +0000

@katman-26: Me too.

By: mamma_lou

mamma_lou — Sat, 06 Oct 2012 06:43:39 +0000

@Predawn-28: risk management. in the event that they don't get sign enough sa players. cheeky did say that would be the absolute last resort

By: trupisero

trupisero — Sat, 06 Oct 2012 06:40:15 +0000

At least our conference has a couple of extra byes now.

I truly hope they don’t concede fewer than 50 points in each match

By: Predawn

Predawn — Sat, 06 Oct 2012 06:27:18 +0000

What now. Does this mean good, strong South African talent is chopped liver?

By: mamma_lou

mamma_lou — Sat, 06 Oct 2012 06:23:11 +0000

King Cheeky said before this anouncement was made that kings are not in discussion with anymore foreign players, but they are in discussion with local players and hope to sign about nine more. think more names will be released on wednesday

By: katman

katman — Sat, 06 Oct 2012 06:13:03 +0000

Anyway, this is very exciting. With the foreign tap shut tight and the Lions being less than gracious in how they take being sodomised by the cheeky boys, we will now finally have a chance to witness the cream of 200 000 of SA’s legendary untapped talent.

Cannot wait.

By: TheTackler

TheTackler — Fri, 05 Oct 2012 22:25:24 +0000

The Kinks?

By: Tjokker

Tjokker — Fri, 05 Oct 2012 21:49:07 +0000

Well done!!! Kry vir julle Watson & kie. Development ha-ha-ha!!! I would feel something for them and support them if they for example has a team as such:

Main couch: Alan Solomons
Assistants: Peter de Villiers and Ricardo Laubscher

15. Coetzee (Lions)
14. Sethole (Sharks)
13. Serfontein (Bulls)
12. Mapoe (Lions)
11. Combrink (Lions)

10. Catracilis (WP)
9. Bondisio (Lions)

1. JC v Rensburg (Lions)
2. Maku (Lions)
3. Mujati (?)
6. Schoeman (Griquas)
4. Sykes (Sharks)
5. Van der Merwe (Lions)
7. Minnie (Lions)
8. Watson (EP)

+ all the available players from EP / SWD / Border

By: Dusky

Dusky — Fri, 05 Oct 2012 21:23:24 +0000

O’ daddy…o’daddy daddy puke o’daddy puke….o’daddy daddy….

Uitegevang ! Not only do they want to push themselves in on politically enforced bullsh!t but they want the rules changed to make it easier for them as well. Sounds a bit like all the other ‘redistribution’ tactics used in our banana republic.

By: Blitzbok

Blitzbok — Fri, 05 Oct 2012 20:30:05 +0000

@Liewe Luiperd-19: remember snors promise in 2007 mate???? he had 88 black players on a list ready to be boks these fukkkers make stupid fukking promises that could never ever come true and get heaps of cash to do it. why isnt the kings ready now???? this sh!!t has been going on for a decade for **** sakes. wheres this fukkking talent already?? usual shovel of sh!tty lies to get what they fukkking want. hope the fukkking kings get moered by the fans home and away, in the news and on the scoreboard. they deserve it.

By: Blitzbok

Blitzbok — Fri, 05 Oct 2012 20:25:54 +0000

You morons watch these fukkkers will achieve nothing. they were going to raid foreign players for fukkk sake!! so much for years of development so much for last years bleatings that they are ready any time for super rugby!!! lying toe rag cok-ended skunk fukkkers!! this region has nothing to fukkking offer anyways so what about the numbers. if numbers was so fukkking important than china should be the top fukkking rugby nation in the world. holy mother of fukkkk these fuktard half-wits need a mallett (no pun intended) to the balllz providing they have any. hoskins is a mudafuking doooos!!!

By: FrontRow

FrontRow — Fri, 05 Oct 2012 19:50:32 +0000

@Liewe Luiperd-19: Agree - That is exactly the point to this whole discussion. The reason why this team was established and able to push its way into the mix was the promise of local development. It appears that there are so many rules being broken, political wrangling, lies, etc surrounding this deal that it is great that some basic rules are being applied fairly to the team

By: Liewe Luiperd

Liewe Luiperd — Fri, 05 Oct 2012 19:20:09 +0000

I guess it is only a “big setback” if you sit on that side of the fence. Personally I think had the Kings been allowed to field 10 foreign players it would have made a COMPLETE MOCKERY of the reason why they were included in the first place… to unearth the so called hotbed of black rugby talent in SA.

And what do the Kiings do?…. sign the likes of pigmentally-pale journeymen like Sykes and Strauss! Bwahahaha.

By: bananaboy

bananaboy — Fri, 05 Oct 2012 19:01:05 +0000

@Treehugger-17: There is too much emotion clouding people's thoughts about this issue. Irrespective of how they decided on the inclusion of the Kings the question is what is in the best interests of SA rugby. The development of a strong Border, EP and SWD region will ultimately benefit the game. One could question whether it should be at the expense of the Lions, the Sharks perhaps fortunate that they have managed to become a rather big franchise with better results and a bigger following, however in terms of future development not the biggest development area in rugby. Rather unfortunate for the Lions is the fact that they are in close proximity to another big franchise in the Bulls and that they have managed to finish last on the log. If that had been the Cheetahs I wonder if SARU would have made the same decision to include the Kings at their expense as that might have had a big impact on development of rugby across SA. i don't like the fact that the Lions have been the sacrficial lamb (we should have has another franchise slot) but ultimately I think the Kings development could be quite positive for the development of the game across population groups.

By: Treehugger

Treehugger — Fri, 05 Oct 2012 18:40:20 +0000

SARU finally stopped bending over for the Watsons. The sooner they are out of the Kings franchise people will stop disliking the Kings.

By: blik

blik — Fri, 05 Oct 2012 16:39:29 +0000

@BrumbiesBoy-12: I am not a fan of how SARU run things either, but you are wrong. SANZAR did not stop the Kings from fielding more freign players, SARU did.