South Africa’s leading sports kit supplier, Canterbury South Africa, has promised to fulfil all its obligations – despite the shock announcement that the company has applied for liquidation.
Rugby 365 reports that the South African Rugby Union said in a statement that the development comes as a “huge shock”.
The company supplies kit to all the national teams, a number of Super 14 outfits – like the Sharks and Lions – as well as the entire Varsity Cup tournament.
“We were informed today [Tuesday] that Canterbury South Africa has applied for voluntary liquidation,” Andy Marinos, acting MD of SA Rugby (the commercial arm of SARU), said in a statement.
“This has come as a huge shock to us but we have been assured that our team kit requirements will be met.
“We have had discussions with Iqbal Khan – senior executive of Brimstone, the owners of Canterbury South Africa – to get some clarity on the impact this is likely to have on SA Rugby.
“Khan told us that they are in discussions with Canterbury International and he confirmed that they will be able to supply Springbok kit.
“We are now awaiting the outcome of a Canterbury International board meeting that is scheduled for tomorrow [Wednesday].”
However, SA Rugby was not in a position to confirm how this will affect the company’s other obligations – to the Super 14 and Varsity Cup teams.
It is believed that some of the teams in the Varsity Cup tournament, scheduled to get underway on February 2, have yet to receive their kit allocations from the company.
The company is to supply the new Springbok jersey – with the new emblem, a King Protea on the left breast and the Springbok on the right – for the British & Irish Lions tour to South Africa from May to July this year.
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What the hell??? 🙁
This must be quite worrying for the Varsity Cup Teams, Thier comp starts on monday night and they haven’t got their kit yet.
I suppose the S14 sides would have had their training kit for some time now already but am not sure if the playing kit would have been provided yet.
WOAH!
@PJLD (Comment 4) : wanna get something off your chest boet???
I enjoyed my run last night btw!!! 😉
@wpw (Comment 5) :
Good thing, that’s the spirit. 😎
@KSA Shark © (Comment 6) :
So how NB is your ‘breathing rhythm’ while running???
And when do your carves stop paining/throbbing??? 😥
Great…now the Sharks and Boks can switch to adidas… 🙂
@wpw (Comment 7) :
Okay my calves never pain unless I am running in sand or soft tartan. I strike with my heel first when running so my quads are the ones that pain.
They ache everytime after I have done a hard session and the day after is not so bad, it is the day after that that is the worst. 🙂
As for rythm of breathing, as you get fitter you will stop panting like a dog. Don’t confuse panting like a dog with getting warmed up though. 🙂
I have a little routine that I used to follow when still racing actively and do before I ref everygame. It came about after walking up a few flights of stairs originally and feeling out of breath after just a few flights of stairs even though I was superfit at that stage.
My body (as do all of ours I’m sure) has a stage where it is just getting warmed up and the heart has to try and catch up unless you warm up VERY gradually. So what I do before an event is do my muscle stretching and once I am happy, I do a few increased intensity running exercises (10 meter run, 25m run) JUST to get my heart racing and close enough to the event to enable me to stop and let my heart recover without cooling down.
Then when I do whatever the event is there is none of that outofbreath after 60sec syndrome before you get into a naturla breathing pattern again.
@KSA Shark © (Comment 9) :
Maybe more than you asked for. 🙂
But ALWAYS stretch BEFORE AND AFTER training. It WILL bite you in the ARSE when you get older.
@KSA Shark © (Comment 9) :
That makes so much sense…
I have been stretching BEFORE i run and not afterward.
I also noticed that I am only warmed up once I am nearly at the end of my run/walk. 😯
@wpw (Comment 11) : That is something i was thinking about when talking to Klempie and him trying to get his time down.
It is that old “tweede asem” thing we all used to hear as kids (If you were a Dutchie, I am not sure what you souties call it 😉 ) get OVER that racing heart bit before you do your run. Specially if it is just a short run.
There will be more such companies going down – rspecially if they provide non-essential goods.
However, Canterbury is applying for voluntary liquidation, so there is a greater amount of protection for creditors, like the unions.
@wpw (Comment 5) :
Aaah, that explains the tremors.
@KSA Shark © (Comment 9) : hey ache everytime after I have done a hard session and the day after is not so bad, it is the day after that that is the worst.
Ja brah, DOMS is the pits.
@PJLD (Comment 14) :
Callm me DOM but DOMS? (Damn old Muscle Syndrome?)
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Delayed Onset Muscle Soreness
@KSA Shark © (Comment 9) : Okay my calves never pain unless I am running in sand or soft tartan.
Doesn’t running in a kilt increase drag? 😕
charge ridiculous prices for gear made at discount prices in china and expect to fail.
@KSA Shark © (Comment 10) : I’m not stretching after and I feel fine. You guys are doing it wrong. 😎
@PJLD (Comment 16) :
Oh okay. 😆
@klempie (Comment 17) : 😆
@klempie (Comment 17) : BRILLIANT
@PJLD (Comment 22) : Thank you, thank you. I’m here all week. 😎
@klempie (Comment 19) :
Ja but we don’t only run 1.7km 😈
@wpw (Comment 24) :
ja Klempie doesn’t know what i am on about with my little commentary above. he hasn’t got to that 2nd breath yet. 😛 😉
@KSA Shark © (Comment 25) :
@wpw (Comment 24) : You just started didn’t you? 😕
Lots of excitement today at RUNNINGworld… 🙄
@klempie (Comment 27) :
no comment… in fact, i plead the 5th amendment!!! 🙄
@blckshrk – PROTEAS (Comment 28) : 😆 😆
I think I have developed an ITB strain 🙁
I managed 8.5kms in 20 minutes.
That was on a stationary bicycle.
Running is for people who never learned to run a bike! Masochists!
@wpw (Comment 29) : That is a stupid Yank copout law. 🙄
@blckshrk – PROTEAS (Comment 28) :
i think we should change it to “Posterworld” then we can post on any topic. 🙄 😆
@klempie (Comment 33) : I know… 😳
@robdylan (Comment 31) :
Touch wood, had it ONCE, got an injection (Cortizone) and never saw it again.
@Baldrick (Comment 32) : 😆
I think I must save all KSA Korsienowski’s words of wisdom because surely some time I’m going to need them – especially if I hang out here for much longer. This running thing could be contagious. Forrest Gump syndrome.
@Salmonoid (Comment 38) :
Sort of a “Salmon Run”
@KSA Shark © (Comment 39) :
😀 Nothing like going against the flow.
@Baldrick (Comment 32) : exercise is for people that don’t have comfy couches.
@try time (Comment 18) :
Canterbury jerseys are made in Cape Town my dear boy. I’ve seen it with my own tow eyes.
Just because the one at the robot had the CCC logo doesnt mean it’s really them manufacturing it… 😉
That’s harsh. I knew a good few guys working there.
My old man was also in the rag trade until a month or so ago and they’ve also closed down their Cape Town factory.
Hard times for the local factory workers.
I’ve been training hard and was hoping to do my first marathon in a few months time.
But I rolled over my ankle in Thailand and then walked on it for another week and its now the size of a grapefruit… *sigh*
From the Cheetahs Website.
Published on the 12th of February.
Yesterday a contract was closed between the Vodacom Cheetahs and Gilbert.
The Vodacom Cheetahs wil be playing in the new apparel on Friday, the 13th of February for their first Vodacom Super 14 match. This match takes place against the Auto and General Lions in Johannesburg, Coca Cola Park.
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This piece was left off for the English translation for some reason. Dit is met groot dank aan Gilbert wat binne 3 dae klerasie aan die Vodacom Cheethas kon verskaf
Great stuff by Gilbert to get things sorted in 3 days.
Now all the cheetahs need to do is get the photo’s in their player profiles changed within 3 days to not show Canterbury as the sponsor. 😕
http://www.vodacomcheetahs.co.za/players.asp
I noticed the Sharks still played in Canterbury kit.
@KSA Shark © (Comment 45) : they are obliged to as money has been paid for them to do so. remember this is only Canterbury SA that is liquidated, not the whole Canterbury. So marketing the brand is still worth something eventhough the South African arm has embarrassed its parent company. Moral of the story though is don’t mess with the tax man.
@try time (Comment 46) :
Then why did the Cheetahs have to resort to changing their kit?
@KSA Shark © (Comment 47) : probably realised they could make more money, or Canterbury hadn’t paid them up front.
@KSA Shark © (Comment 47) : we don’t know what the agreements were. like the sharks are paid upfront by mr price, and might have had a similar contract with canterbury, whereas cheetahs might have had an annual renewal which canterbury renegade on.
This is not good news at all…
Is their no contention (back-up) plan!??!
Well I am sure they can strike a new deal with either addids/reebok/nike!??!
Did Nike not supply the kit a bunch of years ago!??!
It seems the Sharks are now the only guys with canterbury kit then if this question on the Lions website is anything to go by.
Who is the new apparel (kit) sponsor for the Auto & General Super 14 Lions?