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If RUGBY is only ONE of the elements, lets discuss the others.

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SO, in the old regime, the Broederbonders ignored the EC. In the new regime, EC is still ignored. This makes you angry. Angry enough to talk of bombings, uprisings, and mouth of about baiting halfwit Afrikaners, despite their money paying for your tertiary education.

Have I summed it up?

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Well said.

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I don’t see how you can sit there and pretend as though the country has done nothing for you. It’s people with a similar mentality to yours that have put the majority of Africa into the disgusting state of disrepair it’s in. I see a lot of similarity between this and the Spears franchise issue discussed above - a dimwitted expectation of “handouts” being “deserved”. The funny thing is the EC has been given so many handouts of late it’s a joke. If you can’t see all the money that’s been pumped into the Nelson Mandela Metropolitan area then you are blind. Just take a look at the Coega Industrial Development Zone. East London probably needed that a lot more to be sustainable (without Daimler), but you got it. Many jobs created and millions pumped into the local economy.

Feeling the need to pretend that bombing churches and threatening women and children as a result of only god knows what bee you have in your bonnet is pathetic, cowardly and disgusting!

I think you should accept that Eastern Cape is on the up. FACT! and a positive approach by it’s people can only accelerate this. With the player pool currently available to the local union - they are unable to produce a competitive side (at present). They don’t have money to lure other top players away from the big unions yet and will need an extended period in a fair alternative to advance towards this goal. Until the EC Rugby union makes their own alternative and returns profits to build up a healthy balance sheet, NO ONE is going to spoon feed them into an embarrassing result for the rest of this proud rugby playing & supporting country. Cases in point - look at NMMU in the Varsity Cup and the “Mighty Elephants”, with a claim to fame of narrowly beating Border in the Vodacom Cup.

Case closed

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How you go from there, to accusing me of calling you a “racist”, is an enormous leap and a huge assumption that you make yourself.

That now is no laughing matter.

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This “crawl before you walk” statement is so cliched and irrelevant for the following reasons:

1. No Franchise plays in the Currie Cup

2. Let the budding 6th franchise play 3 relegation and promotion matches with the last placed SA side in the Super 14 or Super 15 - and let the best team win.

Finally a thought to ponder, that the Stormers Director of Rugby is Rassie Erasmus of the Eastern Cape and Alistair Coetzee also of the Eastern Cape and this exodus of coaching and player skills is only on account of the fact that the Eastern Cape has been excluded from Super Rugby in South Africa.

This is a major problem and the administration is in denial if they think they can take another 3 years to fix this, they will be beset with problems.

To quote Hoskins himself on the 29th March 2006:

“This is tearing rugby apart in South Africa”.

Yet here we are exactly 4 years down the line with no solution or will by the administration to remedy so blatant an issue.

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Tony: Facebook is a lekker place, hey?

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Why does the Union crawl before it can walk by first playing in the Currie Cup before playing with the big boys? But its this short sighted logic is the reason the Union is in a huge mess.

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