Ek is gaar. Jy moet vanaand
maar met jouself kak praat.
Die Hanskakie is ook nie
hier nie.

They did?

News to me, especially seeing the Valke are nowhere at the moment.

That said, SARU had to step in to bail the Cheetahs out too…

Try another one red nose

No I did not, but for your benefit let me answer it is 2-year old speak…

If you get a piece of property for free, but this property adds no value to your financial portfolio (meaning the cost in having it exceeds the profit it brings) or otherwise what will you do with it?

Sell it of course.

And obviously you do not know how the cycle on players and games work do you?

IN 2000/1 the Bulls was a mess, the stadiums were empty and they lost players by the dozen – ugly public spats inbetween.

They sorted their kak out (all of the time being beneficiaries of a profitable Super rugby franchise system).

The EC has their kak, buildings burning to the ground, nothing is improving because they have no collateral to which to upsell themselves to sponsors or supporters or players.

None of them has a big brother Bulls, WP, Lions franchise to fall back against in which they can not only pool players, but pool other business resources.

The benefit for a regional franchise group is obvious for everyone to see.

Boland benefits from their relationship with WP, Griquas, even hating the Cheetahs guts, benefits from them, players swopping, distribution of financial and player risk/resources etc.

These are all obvious benefits from a workable regional franchise scenario.

This is not, and never was a case in the EC.

Their ‘participation and association’ with previous Super rugby or union powerhouses was about as meaningful as tits on a fish – no wonder they sold them.

Games and players

Only benefit

You get cash for either

BUT

No players and no fans

Hence

sell to Sharks who had players galore and more fans….

Besides by that time the decay was well and truly done…

Cheeky was whingeing about entitlements, Aldy Meyer was getting to grips with professionalism as a customs official stamp smacker and Stag Cronje was trying to figure out if Sanlam or Old Mutual were selling the better product….

Rome burnt…

I see your neat sidestep of the estrangement question fyndraai poses….

It could well be argued that they sold them because there was no viable business benefit for them to have it in the first place!

Where all other unions enjoy region specific benefits, they never did.