Pienaar?

[CanadaToffee]

havnt they got some stadiums to build?

Suits, I was there in December/January and spoke with someone involved in the airport construction for 2010 (building new terminals, etc.). There will be many challenges facing them in getting stadia and other facilities ready. One of the biggest is power (electricity) - the regular rolling power cuts known as "load shedding". It'll be a challenge.

 

[Namdrater]

Yeah we had a power cut as our university yesterday ffs. But they're somehow saying there wont be load shedding during the world cup. Maybe if these power distributors werent giving a few thousand megawatts of power to Zimbabwe this wouldnt even be on the concerns list.

The government is very arrogant, they try use the fact that we're African as a reason for needing this type of [Poor language removed]. What crap, I hope it doesnt happen.

 

[SuitsBlue]

what? that they get players for two years or the actual world cup?

if the stadia go up like wembley did, will the people that voted for SA to get the tournament be held responsible?

 

[Sharpys top lip]

What a load pf [Poor language removed].............will never happen.

 

[Rook]

if the stadia go up like wembley did, will the people that voted for SA to get the tournament be held responsible?

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAH!!!! FIFA responsible??

 

[Neiler]

On the bright side, Wyness felt the need to come out and brand it ridiculous, looks like the signing is in the bag then.

http://www.skysports.com/story/0,19528,12010_3322173,00.html

 

[The Sandman]

This has got to be the most ridiculous suggestions ever. How can SA expect a player to be content to leave his club for 2 years just to train with the SA squad? And also, how will that benefit SA? The players won't have played any competetive football for 2 years when the competition starts! That'll really help, that will.

 

[Cal]

It will never happen, Pienaar will retire.

 

[monty]

It's a serious suggestion (in that he really means it - no April Fools). Clearly it won't happen for all kinds of reasons. There are the obvious reasons (clubs, salaries, etc.). Additionally, he proposes "nationalising" 50 players, but as only 22 make the world cup squad that would leave 28 out in the cold, having sacrificed their club careers. What about players losing form between now and the WC? What about new and up and coming players, not selected in the 50, but in better form than them 2 years later?

What does worry me in terms of Pienaar, though, is that I can foresee them managing to get dispensation from FIFA to gather their WC squad a few months in advance of the tournament. If so, we could end up losing Pienaar for, say, the last 4 months of the 2009/2010 season - and that's a big problem, because that's the year we'll win the Premier League.

No smilies because I'm not kidding.

Spot on CT, that is why we must take this seriously, three or four months is still a big loss