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    Kings accept pay-off to delay Super Rugby entry

    The Southern Kings have reportedly accepted a R40m (£3.1m) pay-off from the South African Rugby Union (SARU) to delay their entry into the Super Rugby competition until 2016.

    According to the Weekend Argus, officials at the Kings have confirmed that the Eastern Cape franchise will not join the Super Rugby competition next year as widely expected.

    It is understood that they have been persuaded to wait a further three years by which stage a new broadcast rights deal will have been brokered that SARU hope will allow an expansion of the existing competition and remove the need for one of the existing South African sides to make way for the Kings.

    Read more: http://www.espnscrum.com/super-rugby...ry/167243.html

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    Kings deny! They actually make us look competent.

    The Southern Kings have rubbished reports that they have accepted R40m from the South African Rugby Union that delays their Super Rugby entry.

    The Weekend Argus revealed on Sunday that the Southern Kings will have to wait until 2016 before joining the competition and that they took the deal due to the fact they had failed to sign a sufficient number of top players to compete next season.

    However in response to the story, the Kings posted a denial on their official Twitter page.

    "The story going around we've taken money to stay out of Super Rugby in 2013 is NOT TRUE! We will be playing Super Rugby in 2013," it read.

    http://www.planet-rugby.co.za/story/...902754,00.html

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    Lol, this is almost as good as what's going on at rugbyWA at the moment
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    Apart from the fact that the kings look credible in their case.

    RugbyWA's inexplicable silence makes it very difficult to defend them!

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    C'mon the

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    I wonder who they will be playing super Rugby against, they certainly haven't managed to play super well against anyone of note as yet.

    I guess we should be thankful we only have provincial and sporting politics at play in Australian Rugby, a third layer of racial politics must make it near on impossible to function.

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    Maybe the force will make way for the kings lol

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    Quote Originally Posted by Tonkar View Post
    Maybe the force will make way for the kings lol
    Don't tempt fate ...

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    Quote Originally Posted by Tonkar View Post
    Maybe the force will make way for the kings lol
    Nah they're shifting us to western Sydney to become the, er, Western Force

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    Greater Western Force?

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    Quote Originally Posted by normie View Post
    Greater Western Force?
    Does that mean we have to have Kevin Sheedy as our next coach?
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    Quote Originally Posted by jargan83 View Post
    Does that mean we have to have Kevin Sheedy as our next coach?
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    No but we need to sign an AFL player on a million dollar a year contract.

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