Look, we are a little arrogant at times. But we’re not the only ones.

The fine to SARU could be up to a million rand and GLRU could sue for compensation for losses ext.

What losses, they don’t win anything anyway, with OR without Alberts and Ludik.

It seems to me that the Lions MUST be the worst employer (read have the worst working environment) there is in the big five unions in SA.

Either their contracts are kak or their working conditions (read people management) are even worse.

Why is it ONLY the Lions that are involved with players running away or wanting to run away either to other provinces or just plain not turning up for practice.

Let me tell you the Lions can thank their lucky stars that there is some sort of regulations because if their weren’t they would probably have no bloody employees (read players)

Let’s face it their are a kak employer. even the Cheetahs who have a MUCH worse Super rugby record keep their players much easier than the kak Lions do.

arrogant in the extreme.

The attitude ‘We are the mighty sharks, we will do whatever we want, and f*ck everyone else’

Whatever the merits of the case, on both sides, whether the contracts are ultimately deemed to be valid or not, there is a procedure that needs to be followed. This procedure is detailed in the SARU document entitled Player Movements. It is very specific. Amongst other things the Transferee (the team to which players are moving) may NOT approach any players contracted to another province unless within 120 days of expiry of the contract, without the consent of the Transferor(province from which he is leaving). The player may not participate in ANY game, and it specifically mentions friendly games, until a clearance certificate has been issued. The sharks wanted these two. They should have entered into negotiations with the transferor, paid a transfer fee, and obtained a clearance certificate. If they felt that the contract was invalid, they should have approached an arbitrator. The question is : Why didn’t they?

Why stop there then?

Lets get King Carlos and Jannes Labuschagne here as well, just act quickly before they can do anything else to their contracts and lets face it, we need a quality flyhalf right now and will need some depth at lock soon

My personal feeling (as a lions supporter) is that the contracts of Alberts and Ludick are not valid(same as JF) and the Sharks will aquire there services. The Sharks most probily will pay a fine to Saru for playing Alberts after SARU said he may not play. Worst case scenario is that SARU may tell the sharks that this case must go to arbitration and Willem and louis must sit and wait for a month and a half to solve this problem.

Or
Penalty to SARU R 1 milj
Transfer fees LL R 2 milj
Transfer fees WA R 2 milj
Legal fees R .3 milj

The South African Rugby Union on Monday confirmed that a hearing into a complaint against the KwaZulu-Natal Rugby Union and players Louis Ludik and Willem Alberts would be heard on Wednesday.

The complaint was brought by the Golden Lions Rugby Union who alleged that the Sharks – the commercial entity of the KwaZulu-Natal Rugby Union – had not secured the necessary clearance certificates required before contracting the players.

The Lions also charged that the two players remained under contract to them.

The Lions allege that this constituted a breach of SARU regulations relating to the Movement of Players and asked SARU to investigate the complaint.

Koos Basson – the former chairman of the SARU disciplinary committee -has been appointed as Judicial Officer and will hear the complaint at SARU’s offices in Newlands on Wednesday, February 10 at 10am.

from SAPA