Kings still hoping for foreign favour
17 Oct 2012
The Southern Kings are still hoping that Saru will accommodate their foreign player situation next season.
A fortnight ago, the Kings announced the signings of Argentina and Toulouse scrumhalf Nicolas Vergallo and Blues utility back Hadleigh Parkes. The EP Kings already have Samoan wing Paul Perez and Kiwi prop Clint Newland in their domestic squad, who will also be available for the franchise in 2013.
The Kings made these deals despite the regulations stating that all local teams only have two foreign players in their final Super Rugby squads.
At the time, the Kings had sent a request to Saru for these restrictions to be lifted. The Melbourne Rebels were allowed 10 international imports for their first season in 2010.
The Eastern Cape franchise argued that because of Saru’s delayed announcement of their tournament status in August, they were prevented the chance from signing experienced South African players earlier in the year. The Kings stressed that their four foreign players will help them be competitive during their debut Super Rugby campaign next season.
However, Saru declined this request a week later.
This leaves the Kings in a difficult situation as all four players will be expecting to play Super Rugby. Kings president Cheeky Watson confirmed that negotiations with Saru are still ongoing.
‘It’s a tricky situation. We are still holding talks with Saru about it,’ Watson told keo.co.za. ‘We are hoping that they’ll be able to accommodate our situation.’
By Gareth Duncan
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17 Oct 2012, 13:52 pm
Be clever cheeky…. dont build for super rugby… build a team to beat Lions next year in the relegation match…sign big names now for that game en beyond
17 Oct 2012, 13:55 pm
Ag sorry SARU, we contracted these okes before we were told our demands were not going to be met.
Then again, anything other side of the Fish River is foreign to them.
17 Oct 2012, 14:24 pm
I agree with allowing more foreign players in a team but… NOT THE KINGS.
They promised to be the White Knight of PE!
17 Oct 2012, 14:25 pm
i too feel they should do their best with the local players we have.
17 Oct 2012, 14:37 pm
The promotion/relegation games are less than a year from now. I hope SARU will not wait until the last minute to set the rules for this game ito which players will be allowed to play in those matches …
17 Oct 2012, 14:44 pm
@suffer_guy-1: The words clever and Cheeky in the same sentence………some other words come to mind but the moderator will have his hands full!!
17 Oct 2012, 15:04 pm
SARU doesn’t seem sure whether they want the Kings to succeed or to fail. One day they help them, the next they hinder them. SARU is the problem with South African rugby, nothing else…
17 Oct 2012, 15:13 pm
Cheecky must fcukoff! What a prick!!
17 Oct 2012, 15:19 pm
Never trust a man who wears darkglasses during an interview…
17 Oct 2012, 15:24 pm
@BrumbiesBoy-9:
The future’s so bright he’s gotta wear shades.
#wemusthaveit.
17 Oct 2012, 15:27 pm
Sorry Cheeky, the tribe has spoken.
Your foreign players will be limited to:
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17 Oct 2012, 15:31 pm
http://www.sport24.co.za/Columnists/GraemeJoffe/SA-Rugby-responds-20121017
This is rather interesting.
17 Oct 2012, 15:34 pm
Kings must keep the pressure on to get their way. Go Kings!
17 Oct 2012, 15:37 pm
@rossoneri-13: Indeed. Go Kings. And don’t let Beitbridge stop you.
17 Oct 2012, 15:38 pm
@katman-11: Oh excellent, Katman!
17 Oct 2012, 16:01 pm
@The Sharks rugby pedigree is packaged as dog food-12:
So Jurie is a liar?
17 Oct 2012, 16:05 pm
@The Sharks rugby pedigree is packaged as dog food-12: this joffers character is amusing…
17 Oct 2012, 16:09 pm
@gunther-16: It would seem so. Which is why I have zero faith in the upcoming promotion relegation match between the Cheetahs and the Kings. The Cheetahs are going to smash Cheeky’s boys, but Jurie & Co will wait till a month before the CC kicks off and find a way to include the Kings anyway. Probably force the Cheetahs and Griquas to merge. Maybe even merge the towns of Bloem and Kimberley.
17 Oct 2012, 16:10 pm
@Transformation-17: Perhaps, but that doesn’t alter the fact that Jurie is an outright liar, and has been caught out in clear black and white.
17 Oct 2012, 16:14 pm
@katman-18:
sheeshkebab that is very embraboer.
saru looking inept.
again.
17 Oct 2012, 16:15 pm
@gunther-16: Jurie is tryna be slick
Thu, 16 Aug 2012 16:03
Chairman Oregan Hoskins explained that as all six franchises will continue to get financial support, SARU are happy that they have stayed true to their promise that the resolution would not be at the expense of any franchise.
“What we were referring to was that the team that fell out would be assisted by South African rugby. The extent to which that will happen we obviously still have to look at in conjunction with that franchise,” he said.
Jurie Roux adds on:
“When we made that statement in parliament and subsequent to that nobody ever asked us what was going to be the ‘at no expense’, nobody asked us for clarification on that and that is what it was – we need to look at that franchise and we need to look at opportunities for that franchise where we can assist them in keeping their franchise running and being able to compete should they win promotion next year,” he said.
17 Oct 2012, 16:17 pm
@Transformation-21:
that’s kak and he knows it.
the expense in that context clearly refers to participation not renumeration.
I’m phoning Carte Blanche immediately.
17 Oct 2012, 16:22 pm
@katman-11:
hehehe
with creative accounting that could easily be calculated to mean 11
17 Oct 2012, 16:23 pm
Fck that, I’m putting Deborah Patta onto him. He’ll be crying for his Oregan in less than 5 minutes.
17 Oct 2012, 16:29 pm
@katman-24:
Indeed she is a feisty one.
I saw her in the flesh.
I’m not ashamed to say I made a little wee.
17 Oct 2012, 16:31 pm
@katman-14: You are such a hater!
17 Oct 2012, 16:31 pm
@gunther-25: he fake tan is too much though…
17 Oct 2012, 16:35 pm
@Transformation-27:
I must say shehad not tanlines at all when I last saw her.
17 Oct 2012, 16:38 pm
@gunther-28:
17 Oct 2012, 16:39 pm
@gunther-28: in the nude, you mean?
17 Oct 2012, 16:41 pm
@Transformation-30:
but keep it on the downlow.
fuckadilly will be very jaloors.
17 Oct 2012, 16:43 pm
@gunther-31: He always fancied a bit of Patta Patta.
17 Oct 2012, 16:43 pm
@gunther-31: skop prefers Noeleen…
17 Oct 2012, 16:45 pm
@katman-32:
That will get him down from the roof sharpish.
@Transformation-33:
Mo cushin fo da pushin.
17 Oct 2012, 17:03 pm
@Transformation-21:
I see you are using my evidence!
17 Oct 2012, 17:11 pm
@The Sharks rugby pedigree is packaged as dog food-12: Holy Moly…. Jurie Roux is being less than honest… a SARU exec being a little econcomical with the truth… I won’t believe it! It cannot be true! Seriously though… SARU are so inept and so full of lies that any half decent journalist woulod have them spinning in circles. What the GLRU really eed though, is a half decent litigator to smoke those chimpanzees! Jurie and Hoskins need to be depployed elsewhere… EP Rugby might take them
17 Oct 2012, 17:14 pm
@Rooibaard2000-36: Manie Reyneke is that you?
17 Oct 2012, 17:19 pm
@RL-35: i thought of you when i saw this
7. How much money has SARU put into the Kings since becoming a shareholder?
JR: Not a cent.
17 Oct 2012, 17:40 pm
@Transformation-38: was that Joffers my boy.
Just hope that Jurie can be his usual slimy duplictious self when renegotiating the super deal.
17 Oct 2012, 17:47 pm
we will not go quietly in the night… you have to admire cheeky watson. the kings are in super rugby to stay
17 Oct 2012, 17:47 pm
3. Why was the onus on the Unions to come up with a solution – when in fact SARU put the cart before the horse with a “16th” franchise?
JR: SARU is the unions
17 Oct 2012, 17:51 pm
10. Why is the onus on the provinces to confirm that an agent acting for a player is properly accredited? Surely, the onus is on SARU?
JR: Because SARU is not a party to a union’s negotiations with its players and therefore cannot know who is acting for whom.
But SARU is the unions Jurie.
17 Oct 2012, 17:54 pm
11. Why did SARU not look at including the Kings in the Currie Cup 3-4 years ago?
JR: The Kings are in the Currie Cup.
17 Oct 2012, 17:58 pm
Hahahaha Joffers my boy – you will never win with that demon Jurie Roux.
“By: Graeme Joffe
2012-10-17 09:42
It’s a start.
SA Rugby have responded to the questions in my last column, but most of the answers have left me with more questions.”
17 Oct 2012, 18:35 pm
@Transformation-38: Your opinion on Graham Joffe’s article, please. And remember, no lies.
P.S. And don’t even think of saying Roux’s obviously been misquoted, because nobody on here will believe you.
17 Oct 2012, 18:46 pm
@The Sharks rugby pedigree is packaged as dog food-12: Excellent news this, thanks very much for posting it.
Joffers has these interviews published in a Johannesburg daily every Saturday; can’t wait to see what else is in there this week.
17 Oct 2012, 18:53 pm
@BrumbiesBoy-45: joffers is on a hiding to nothing trying to nail jurie the eel!
17 Oct 2012, 19:00 pm
@Transformation-47: Why do you say that?
Because Jurie’s got “friends in high places” perhaps?
17 Oct 2012, 19:02 pm
@RL-43:
i can picture him saying this with a straight face
17 Oct 2012, 19:06 pm
@i_love_u_bakkiesbotha-49: With his darkglasses on, no doubt.
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