Houwing sticks the knife into Newlands

Chief press moron Houwing came up with this gem in an article on where the Lions Tour matches should be played: .......... "But the Mother City would inevitably remain a popular lure for the touring fans and players alike, and it is difficult to imagine a second Lions tour on the trot not featuring a Capetonian Test – there would be some uproar, under such circumstances, in a region renowned for still being one of the better crowd-drawing metropolises in South Africa for both major rugby and cricket. Just as likely would be the Test, assuming the city earns one, being played at the larger (up to around 55,000-capacity) Cape Town Stadium, still believed to be finally hosting the Stormers/WP by then despite the laborious, ongoing delicacy around issues related to the vacation of now tatty, ageing current headquarters Newlands, owned by embattled WP Rugby. National umbrella body SA Rugby have traditionally been well disposed toward Cape Town Stadium, aware of its notable success as current host of the SA leg of the World Rugby Sevens Series and, more recently, also earning a bumper gate for the well-received 2019 pre-season “SuperHero Sunday” featuring all four domestic Super Rugby franchises. It has also employed it for Bok training sessions and even some major media briefings and the like. All that said, the issue of corporate suites - there is currently limited capacity for them at the more modern, 2010 soccer World Cup-geared venue in Green Point - remains a vexing one at this point, while SA Rugby might wish to stage at least one effectively 'trial' prior Test match at the ground before confidently giving it a Lions Test." .... So Newlands is just 'tatty' now, not steeped in tradition with a wonderful history of great matches and a beauty all it's own among great rugby grounds. No longer a peer of Twickenham and Cardiff Arms Park.......just 'tatty'. These views are no doubt politically correct but a disgusting betrayal of the traditions of rugby in South Africa.

Too true, his paragraph/sentence on corporate boxes is a master class in impenetrable writing.

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