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<blockquote data-quote="TRF_heineken" data-source="post: 871400" data-attributes="member: 40658"><p>The issue the very first paragraph of that article: </p><p></p><p>Now, this is where I immediately heard alarm bells with this article. Had both the Lions and the Sharks have written to SARU to ask if they can compete in Europe, then surely at least one single media house in South Africa would have picked it up. Not News24, Rapport, EWN, Daily Maverick or even one of the Gupta-owned news outlets have picked this story up. Yet, a newspaper in England have this story, reliable or not, it's highly unlikely that this happened. If you were to scour through the internet now, you won't find any such news, apart from this article. Which makes it even more suspicious. Did nobody else find this noteworthy??? Not even as a part of a blog???</p><p></p><p>Hell it's not even on Facebook, twitter, snapchat or instagram!!</p><p></p><p></p><p>There is no rule that I know of, but fake news can be regarded as spam, and if so, we have the right to delete the thread, and even ban the poster. I just think that if an article about a certain team is published, it would always be a good rule of thumb, to check if that same article is posted in that team's local news outlets. You don't see me posting articles about Aussie Rugby that couldn't be found on aussie media sites.</p><p></p><p>I'm just saying that you should be careful in what you post, credibility of you as a poster is also being put on the line when you start a thread...</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>If this was the case, then your ***le of your thread needs to change, and your OP's tone would've been different.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>We are looking into updating the rules of the forum. I will definitely ask the other mods to consider this request.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Harold Verster said a lot of contradicting things this year. At one stage he insisted that the Cheetahs won't join the pro14. At a stage when it was general knowledge that they were, even though it wasn't officially announced at that time yet. </p><p></p><p>And the "<em>some of the other unions" </em>doesn't necessarily mean the Bulls, Lions, Sharks or Western Province... there are 14 unions in South Africa. It could just as easily have been the Pumas, Griquas, Leopards, Valke, SWD, Griffons, Border Bulldogs or Boland.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="TRF_heineken, post: 871400, member: 40658"] The issue the very first paragraph of that article: Now, this is where I immediately heard alarm bells with this article. Had both the Lions and the Sharks have written to SARU to ask if they can compete in Europe, then surely at least one single media house in South Africa would have picked it up. Not News24, Rapport, EWN, Daily Maverick or even one of the Gupta-owned news outlets have picked this story up. Yet, a newspaper in England have this story, reliable or not, it's highly unlikely that this happened. If you were to scour through the internet now, you won't find any such news, apart from this article. Which makes it even more suspicious. Did nobody else find this noteworthy??? Not even as a part of a blog??? Hell it's not even on Facebook, twitter, snapchat or instagram!! There is no rule that I know of, but fake news can be regarded as spam, and if so, we have the right to delete the thread, and even ban the poster. I just think that if an article about a certain team is published, it would always be a good rule of thumb, to check if that same article is posted in that team's local news outlets. You don't see me posting articles about Aussie Rugby that couldn't be found on aussie media sites. I'm just saying that you should be careful in what you post, credibility of you as a poster is also being put on the line when you start a thread... If this was the case, then your ***le of your thread needs to change, and your OP's tone would've been different. We are looking into updating the rules of the forum. I will definitely ask the other mods to consider this request. Harold Verster said a lot of contradicting things this year. At one stage he insisted that the Cheetahs won't join the pro14. At a stage when it was general knowledge that they were, even though it wasn't officially announced at that time yet. And the "[I]some of the other unions" [/I]doesn't necessarily mean the Bulls, Lions, Sharks or Western Province... there are 14 unions in South Africa. It could just as easily have been the Pumas, Griquas, Leopards, Valke, SWD, Griffons, Border Bulldogs or Boland. [/QUOTE]
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