Kings to field four foreigners
30 Jan 2013
The Southern Kings have included four international players in their squad for the warm-up match against a Franchise XV on Friday.
On Sunday, the Kings released a statement in reaction to an article published earlier that day in Rapport. The article said that Saru would not allow the Kings to field all five of their foreigners in Super Rugby, and that the Eastern Cape franchise would be restricted to two.
EP president Cheeky Watson did, however, state that while the franchise had accepted Saru’s decision, they would not be releasing their foreign players. ‘There are still ample opportunities within our structures for them to contribute,’ Watson said at the time.
Four of these players, namely Daniel Adongo (Kenya), Hadleigh Parkes (New Zealand), Tomas Leonardi (Argentina), and Virgil Lacombe (France), have been picked to play in a warm-up fixture this Friday. A statement released by the Kings on Wednesday revealed how much game time each player will enjoy in this match.
Southern Kings:
15. Elric van Vuuren
14. Sergeal Petersen (40 mins) / Siviwe Soyizwapi (40 mins)
13. Ronnie Cooke (60 mins) / Siyanda Grey (20 mins)
12. Andries Strauss (Captain) (40 mins) / Hadleigh Parkes (40 mins)
11. Marcello Sampson (40 mins) / Siyanda Grey (20 mins) / Sergeal Petersen (20 mins)
10. George Whitehead (40 mins) / Wesley Dunlop (Vice Captain) (40 mins)
9. Shaun Venter (40 mins) / Johan Herbst (40 mins)
1. Jaco Engels (40 mins) / Schalk Ferreira (40 mins)
2. Virgil Lacombe (40 mins) / Bandise Maku (40 mins)
3. Ross Geldenhuys (40 mins) / Kevin Buys (40 mins)
4. David Bullbring (80 mins)
5. Daniel Adongo (40 mins) / Rynier Bernardo (40 mins)
6. Devin Oosthuizen (Vice Captain) (40 mins) / Tomas Leonardi (40 mins)
7. Wimpie van der Walt (40 mins) / Mpho Mbiyozo (Captain) (40 mins)
8. Jacques Engelbrecht (40 mins) / Cornell du Preez (40 mins)
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31 Jan 2013, 09:13 am
All the cry baby colonic colonialists crying together In tandem no wonder they such a bunch of miserable runaway chickenshIts complaining much better about the advent of the EC Kings seeking their demise before they even begin cause they represent the exact antithesis to their cowardly chickenshift colonial agenda. What’s this little colonic prick Brumbies prat still doing crying about Africa while he sucks off the marrow of African aspiring affiliations. Wtf you still doing here you pseudo champion of white sport for whites only punk you should have fckd off to that wannabe colonic culture where the colonialists are still proud of their genocide of the indigenous population just like Kosie and Brycie and Jakey and all the other colonic Jones’s did.
31 Jan 2013, 09:32 am
@skopdiekan-201: Hello Skop. I hope you are well.
31 Jan 2013, 09:40 am
Howdy Ruckerby baby I’m doing fine thankee doody ma’am hope you doing fine too.
31 Jan 2013, 10:01 am
@skopdiekan-201: Hey punk, wtf did I ever say anything about whites-only sport?
Come on, show me where?
Unlike your teams at least my “lily-white” Brumbies are a team selected on merit and not some abhorrently racist quota system which discriminates on the basis of race.
Do not put words in my mouth…prove your allegations otherwise STFU.
31 Jan 2013, 10:12 am
“my brumbies” while borm & bred in joburg
31 Jan 2013, 10:14 am
@skopdiekan-201:
Yada yada.
I still cant believe you’re just a wee Jewish fella from Fishoek.
31 Jan 2013, 10:15 am
we already have CapeCrusaders by die kaap now we have JoziBrumbies in die vaal…
disaffected saffas
31 Jan 2013, 10:15 am
@Transformation-205: Who said I was born in Joburg?
And don’t bother asking where I was born because it’s none of your business.
31 Jan 2013, 10:24 am
@BrumbiesBoy-208: i’m not in the least interested in you JoziBrumbie
31 Jan 2013, 10:25 am
So…Sheeke’ is developing rugby for New Zealand, Kenya, Argentina and France…four places for up and coming black players have been poached by unknown nationalities.
This would not usually phase me, but for all the hot gassy emissions that escape these Watson cretins blowholes on a regular basis about transformation in South African rugby.
So, much like their cousins in government, they sanctimoniously scream and grizzle about the unfairness of life in a white South Africa, but when it gets down to it, they are the ones being caught with their big smelly feet ankle deep in their chilly chicken giblet infested gobs.
We wait for the next comedy of events from the comrades. Politics 101 from the Laurel and Hardy of South African rugby.
31 Jan 2013, 10:33 am
@Transformation-209: Oh, I think you are.
31 Jan 2013, 13:57 pm
@Predawn-210: Well said!!!
Excuse my ignorance, as I really dont know, but why can the franchises not show SARU the middle finger, and put in a team they want to? I am sure that European clubs would love to have a full strength Sharks, Bulls, Stormers, Lions and Cheetahs team in their European tournament. Or should everything go through SARU? If so, I dont understand the franchise business that well…
31 Jan 2013, 14:24 pm
@Blue Label-212: SARU owns the Franchise licences, there’s a South African Rugby Franchise Agreement that unions are signatories to.
31 Jan 2013, 21:30 pm
@BrumbiesBoy-204:
You should fck off to Goolongonedwanaland where all your pale face puffy nosed pompous brethren systematically all but succeeded in obliterating the local indigenous inhabitants into extinction with their blight on humanity you pompous pricks like to promulgate. Wtf you still doing in Africa you dumb displaced colonialist there no place for you snotty nosed kind here this indigenous population is not going to be subservient and subjugated into extinction or oblivion like you thought you could successfully achieve on other blighted continents you occupied. Go play your colonic cockup of a cantankerous cockamamie excuse of colonial pastime called cricket on that wasteland of opportunity your kind usurped and
31 Jan 2013, 21:38 pm
Take your other brethren like this ponce here with you @John Galt-206: along with Bryce and Bruce and Clyde and Koos and all other displaced blighters who wanna make their little whitey colonial cocoon of convenience on somebody else’s land.
31 Jan 2013, 22:02 pm
@skopdiekan-214: Yawn.
#prattdeluxe
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