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Cheetahs and Kings booted from pro 14
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<blockquote data-quote="TRF_heineken" data-source="post: 1003818" data-attributes="member: 40658"><p>It's more complicated than that. SARU made the agreement with PRO DAC, not the Cheetahs directly. The Cheetahs and the Kings then made franchise agreements with SARU.</p><p></p><p>So technically the Cheetahs doesn't have an agreement with PRO DAC directly, but with SARU. So if they want to go to court based on contracts, it will be against SARU, and it will be a case between the Franchisor and Franchisee. So it all depends on the Franchise agreement the Cheetahs made with SARU.</p><p></p><p>The hurdle will be that the unions, who voted at the board meeting, makes the decisions as the Franchisor. So even if the Cheetahs as a union, voted against it at the board meeting, the majority voted in favour of this.</p><p></p><p>The other thing they need to consider is that all the franchises gets benefits from the teams participating in the tournament, so even if the Cheetahs doesn't play PRO rugby, they still get funding from the tournament. Taking legal action against the hand that feeds you, might not necessarily be the best way to go, as your are essentially using the money you got from them, to fight them.</p><p></p><p>I just think that the Cheetahs board should weigh up all their options before taking drastic steps. The fact that there were reports that the Cheetahs will go the legal route even before this vote happened, and now after the vote that there are reports, that they are considering taking the legal route, or not, makes me think that there was a bit more thinking done by the top brass and that their exclusion going forward might not be as bad as it seems. Especially since SARU is creating a new tournament for them to compensate.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="TRF_heineken, post: 1003818, member: 40658"] It's more complicated than that. SARU made the agreement with PRO DAC, not the Cheetahs directly. The Cheetahs and the Kings then made franchise agreements with SARU. So technically the Cheetahs doesn't have an agreement with PRO DAC directly, but with SARU. So if they want to go to court based on contracts, it will be against SARU, and it will be a case between the Franchisor and Franchisee. So it all depends on the Franchise agreement the Cheetahs made with SARU. The hurdle will be that the unions, who voted at the board meeting, makes the decisions as the Franchisor. So even if the Cheetahs as a union, voted against it at the board meeting, the majority voted in favour of this. The other thing they need to consider is that all the franchises gets benefits from the teams participating in the tournament, so even if the Cheetahs doesn't play PRO rugby, they still get funding from the tournament. Taking legal action against the hand that feeds you, might not necessarily be the best way to go, as your are essentially using the money you got from them, to fight them. I just think that the Cheetahs board should weigh up all their options before taking drastic steps. The fact that there were reports that the Cheetahs will go the legal route even before this vote happened, and now after the vote that there are reports, that they are considering taking the legal route, or not, makes me think that there was a bit more thinking done by the top brass and that their exclusion going forward might not be as bad as it seems. Especially since SARU is creating a new tournament for them to compensate. [/QUOTE]
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