Southern Kings (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
The Southern Kings unfortunately decided to switch their logo at their last minute before the 2013 season kicked off. The more fitting image of a baby seal being clubbed to death was replaced with something resembling 4 Bic pens randomly sprouting towards the sky.
2013 is not going to pretty for this franchise. You’ve got to feel for them. Consider how the South African rugby administration has set them up to fail.
- SARU dicking around for most 2011 and 2012 and not making it clear which teams would be participating (how do you recruit when you don’t know which teams will be in or out?)
- The Lions refusing to loan any players to the Kings, despite the fact that they were offered to all the other South African franchises.
- Only giving the Kings one season to stay afloat in the S15 (who wants to sign for a team that will finish last and be relegated?)
- SARU refusing to relax the foreign quota limit for the Kings in light of the above (it was waived for the Melbourne Rebels by the ARU). Would have been great to see a few more Kenyans in this squad.
Yip, it’s pretty much a certainty they are going to be on the receiving end of some massive hidings. Away from home, you’d be brave to bet against them conceding 100 points somewhere along the way. The really irritating thing here, is that would have been great to see a good side playing out of P.E.
Players to watch this season: Luke Watson and … um… I am pretty sure there are one or two other decent players, aren’t there?
If they had a theme song by Leonard Cohen it would be: ”Never Any Good”.
Prospects for 2013: Nuclear holocaust.
