DAVID SHAPSHAK, Johannesburg | Thursday 5.40pm.
STORMERS player representative Andy Marinos and captain Corne Krige will face an independent disciplinary committee hearing next Thursday about their team’s refusal to play in a Super 12 semi-final. The Stormers were crushed 33-18 by the Otago Highlanders on May 22 after they refused to take the field unless they received a R20 000 match fee and R5 000 winning bonus. The hearing will take place at the South African Rugby Football Union’s Cape Town offices next Thursday, after a Sarfu judicial committee meeting in Johannesburg last weekend called for an independent inquiry. “The judicial committee did not consider any facts relating to the case, as has been speculated in the media,” said Sarfu CEO Rian Oberholzer. “It was their task to determine the best way to progress the matter in the context of the SARFU’s judicial procedures. It was decided that a disciplinary committee should hear the matter”.
Retired Judge President Gerald Friedman will chair the three-man independent disciplinary committee, along with prominent administrator Burton Fourie, who is president of the George Rugby Club, and prominent former player Professor George Fredericks, who lectures at UWC.