What’s the difference between peanut butter and jam? You can’t peanut butter the Kings into Super Rugby! Yeah I know that’s not how the joke goes, but the modified punch line is just as sick. Again with the political bull crap in sport, god how it grates my Dusty Nobles…
The decision is final, but the thought process is pending...
But hey, as South Africans we learn to take things on the chin and move on. The Kings will play Super Rugby in 2013, that is confirmed, what is not confirmed however, are the finer details of how this will happen. Well SARU, despite my dislike for you as an organization, I have devised the solutions for you.
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Heyneke Meyer. With all the mystery of a FIFA presidential election, SA Rugby’s worst kept secret gets revealed today to the SA public. After months of speculation over who would get the job from 4-year care taker coach P Divvy, Meyer has become the last man standing.
Hey Heyneke, we're ready for you now.
The natural and deserved successor to Jake White four years ago until SARU went affirmative on his ass, Meyer takes charge at an interesting cross roads in Springbok rugby. Let’s have a look then at what his first year in charge holds.
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Four years ago the Boks were crowned World Champions for the second time and SA Rugby was covered in glory. Having without doubt the most complete team in all the rugby world and with fantastic talent on the fringes, SARU (the people who are essentially in charge of the great game here) decided that they would celebrate what was going to be the start of a bright future by welcoming back all conquering coach Jake White with a hand shake and good bye. While the rest of the world scratched their collective heads at this decision (especially as All Black coach Graeme Henry retained his job after being knocked out in the quarters), SARU felt no remorse and then proceeded to do something even more unexpected.
SARU - Crazy Mother .......
On the back of successful fan campaigns by South Africa’s biggest beer, cell phone and sports broadcasting brands, the organisational body thought they would run a Superfan competition of their own and select Peter De Villiers instead of an actual coach to replace the celebrated White.
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A couple months ago oil sprung up in the Gulf of Mexico. Not in a controlled sense mind you, no this super well was opened and the pricks who drilled it were not able to control it meaning that bijillions of litres of the black gold flooded into the Gulf buggering up just about everything from marine life to tourism.
The pricks in question here were none other than those greedy sausage jockeys BP who seem hell bent in drilling holes into everything that isn’t a fetus. They went beyond the limits of acceptable practice, drilling at a depth that was too deep and therefore in nobody’s best interest. And the result? Well goes without saying that they have shot themselves in the foot and pissed off a lot of people in the process.
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It was revealed recently that Rassie Erasmus, the ex-Bok loose forward, ex-Bloemfontein rugby stadium disco DJ and now top dog of Western Province rugby, wants to launch a shortened 20/20 styled version of rugby. In short, after a couple klippies, Rassie came up with an idea of making a cash cow out of rugby.
Lekker ideas always follow a quiet drink or two.
He took this idea a step further over the weekend by submitting a proposal to Oregan Hoskins at SARU. Sadly Hoskins didn’t laugh him off straight away and this to me says that trouble could be brewing as who knows where a foot in the door will take this unnecessary rugby sideshow. Basically Rassie’s idea is to pit the world’s best rugby players against each other in a two week tournament, with manufactured teams acting as ideal canvasses to be painted with the money brush of professional sport. This circus is proposed to take place prior to the Super 15 meaning that our top players will then be playing rugby in January. Ya I know, sounds ridiculous.
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