Newlands gone!

[OomStruisbaai]

Finally.
R365

BREAKING NEWS: The Western Province Rugby Football Union and South African Rugby Union announced on Thursday that the Newlands Rugby Stadium was to be placed on the market in a sealed bidding process.

The administrator appointed by SARU to regularise the affairs of the union, Rian Oberholzer, has retained an external consultancy to ensure the process is transparent and judged entirely on commercial merits.

Oberholzer first hinted at the ‘sale’ of Newlands in a recent letter to the clubs – reported on exclusively by @rugby365com earlier this month!

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In a statement, SARU & WPRFU said entities wishing to pursue an interest in bidding may request details of the property and the terms and conditions of the bidding process from Galetti (Pty) Limited.

“This is the cleanest, fairest and most transparent method by which to hopefully secure the sale of Newlands to assist in the long-term sustainability of the Union,” an SA Rugby spokesperson said in the statement.

“We are now in a position where we can proceed to a sale, having taken some time to understand and untangle the various sale conversations that had taken place.”

The spokesperson said that the sealed bid process was the most transparent method to ensure the best possible outcome for WPRFU and the prospective purchaser.

[Sards]

Old news....they have moved to your old area now

[Wilson's Toffee]

Strip mining. Manage a successful business over the cliff, liquidate the assets for almost nothing. And, in this case, blame apartheid or white monopoly capital...

Standard NSA operating procedure.

[OomStruisbaai]

Strip mining. Manage a successful business over the cliff, liquidate the assets for almost nothing. And, in this case, blame apartheid or white monopoly capital...

Standard NSA operating procedure.

You forgot the BEE part at the start of the process.

[Chilli]

They should bottle the stale piss smell and sell it to the "faithful".

[Wilson's Toffee]

Strip mining. Manage a successful business over the cliff, liquidate the assets for almost nothing. And, in this case, blame apartheid or white monopoly capital...

Standard NSA operating procedure.

You forgot the BEE part at the start of the process.

Many people do this without the BEE factor. Just because they can.....

[OomStruisbaai]

Strip mining. Manage a successful business over the cliff, liquidate the assets for almost nothing. And, in this case, blame apartheid or white monopoly capital...

Standard NSA operating procedure.

You forgot the BEE part at the start of the process.

Many people do this without the BEE factor. Just because they can.....

Oom Toffee, Oom Toffe
Dobson achievement is unbelievable
DM

“The fact that I’m present and engaged with the team, and not distracted, has had a positive impact on the players,” Stormers coach John Dobson told DM168. “I’m not trying to say we’ve improved simply because of my coaching but it’s about the fact that players feel more settled.

“They’re not worrying about the union and their future, which must have filtered down at some stage,” he said.

“If I go back to late 2019, I’ve had eight bosses. At executive level it was a series of CEOs, or acting CEOs. There was Paul Zacks, André van der Veen, Peter Jooste, Ronald Bantom and Reuben Riffel. I also reported to the board chairperson, Jan van der Merwe, and later to Ebrahim Rasool, and above that I also had to deal with the president, Zelt Marais.”

Dobson plays down his role in appeasing the dressing room while trying to balance relations with the board and sponsors. But everyone was unhappy, from lead sponsor DHL to players and agents. And Dobson was in the middle, wearing the official cap of coach, but operating as a de facto director of rugby, chief operating officer and commercial director.

During the turmoil the Stormers and the union suffered deep reputational damage that manifested in unpleasant ways. They were unable to hang on to Bok skipper Siya Kolisi and World Cup winners Bongi Mbonambi and Pieter-Steph du Toit. They simply didn’t, and don’t, have the budget to compete, but they also couldn’t guarantee that the entire union wouldn’t collapse in financial ruin.

“We have had situations recently where we have had to field 22 players in away matches (instead of 23) because we suffered an injury in the warm-up but didn’t have the budget to travel with 25 players,” Dobson said.

“That frustrates the players a lot, especially when the Bulls arrive with 30-odd players. But it’s a frustration that comes from a better place, if that makes sense. They don’t view it as a sign that [the] union is sinking, but rather as a sign that it is being fixed and these are the sacrifices that need to be made. In a way it has made us tighter as a squad.”

[Wilson's Toffee]

Dobson is excellent. The suits are useless.