On Saturday 12 March at 15h05 the Southern Kings will play against the Gallagher Chiefs at the Nelson Mandela Bay Stadium. The Kings team will be announced later today and the Chiefs team to-morrow afternoon.
The slide show below is of every coach and player on the Southern Kings side accompanied by their theme song.
The Southern Kings Theme Music is a song by the White Stripes called 7 Nation Army. The opening lyrics are; “I’m gonna fight ’em off, A seven nation army couldn’t hold me back..”
See the White Stripes playing the song with lyrics here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0J2QdDbelmY or purchase the song here: https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/elephant/id275230921
The Southern Kings team:
Coaches:
- Davids, Deon
- Pieterse, Barend
- Stick, Mzwandile
Players:
- Ackerman, Justin
- Adriaanse, Jacobie
- Albertse, Louis
- Am, Lukhanyo
- Astle, JC
- Bezuidenhout, Martin
- Bholi, Thembelani
- Botha, Tom
- Cloete, Chris
- Davis, Aidon
- Du Plessis, JP
- Du Preez, Phillip
- Eksteen, Leighton
- Engelbrecht, Jacques
- Ferreira, Martin
- Ferreira, Schalk
- Fouche, Louis
- Fuzani, Tazz
- Gates, Shane
- Grey, Siyanda
- Hall, James
- Hendricks, Liam
- Hess, Cornell
- Jaer, Malcolm
- Joncker, JP
- Kebe, Ntando
- Kotze, Theuns
- Lewis, Marlow
- Luiters, Kevin
- Makase, Michael
- Marutlulle, Edgar
- Oelofse, Schalk
- Paul, Tyler
- Pokomela, Junior
- Radebe, Charles
- Sithole, Sithembiso
- Sofisa, Vukile
- Sykes, Steven
- Van Tonder, Jaco
- Velleman, CJ
- Visser, Jurgen
- Vulindlu, Luzuko
- Watermeyer, Stefan
- Watts, Elgar
- Willemse, Stefan
The Southern Kings are a rugby union team based in Port Elizabeth, South Africa that competes in the annual Super Rugby competition. The creation of the team was formally announced at the opening of the Nelson Mandela Bay Stadium on 16 June 2009, in time to coincide with the 2009 British and Irish Lions tour to South Africa.
For the 2013 season, the Kings’ catchment area was made up of the Eastern Cape and parts of the Western Cape, drawing players from 3 provincial unions, namely the Eastern Province Kings, based in Port Elizabeth (representing the southern half of the Eastern Cape), the Border Bulldogs, based in East London (representing the northern half of the Eastern Cape) and the SWD Eagles, based in George (representing the South Western Districts). However, after the South African Rugby Union took over the running of the franchise in November 2015, the franchise had no formal ties to any of the provincial unions.
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