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Cape Town - A business deal between former Springbok coach Jake White, local publishing business Highbury Safika Media, and rugby writer Mark Keohane has turned sour, ending up in the Western Cape High Court.
Aeysha Kassiem of the Cape Times reports that Highbury and Keohane have applied to place the venture with White under provisional liquidation.
Keohane, employed by Highbury Safika as the publishing director, said in court papers that the application was in fact a "last resort" after "every endeavour to resolve the dispute" over the joint company, Jake White's Winning Way (PTY) Ltd, of which they are all shareholders.
Former Australian coach and assistant to White during the Rugby World Cup in 2007, Eddie Jones, has also been listed as a shareholder. The dispute, said Keohane, has since seen the shareholders reach "deadlock", particularly over the division of shares and other monetary matters.
The papers say that there is "no prospect" of it ever being resolved.
Keohane said that both he and White had agreed that there was a lack of coaching of coaches in the country, especially at schools level and White felt he was an "outstanding identifier" of talent at junior level.
"(White) felt this could be maximised by virtue of a player agency in which the youngster's future could be guided professionally by White and (Highbury), with White providing the rugby intellectual capital and (Highbury) the business expertise, both from an intellectual point of view and because of access to existing resource," he said.
The company was called "Jake White's Winning Way".
Jones' involvement was to be beyond a consultancy level as their intention was to "explore the Japanese emerging rugby market" as the country was due to host the Rugby World Cup in 2019.
Aeysha Kassiem of the Cape Times reports that Highbury and Keohane have applied to place the venture with White under provisional liquidation.
Keohane, employed by Highbury Safika as the publishing director, said in court papers that the application was in fact a "last resort" after "every endeavour to resolve the dispute" over the joint company, Jake White's Winning Way (PTY) Ltd, of which they are all shareholders.
Former Australian coach and assistant to White during the Rugby World Cup in 2007, Eddie Jones, has also been listed as a shareholder. The dispute, said Keohane, has since seen the shareholders reach "deadlock", particularly over the division of shares and other monetary matters.
The papers say that there is "no prospect" of it ever being resolved.
Keohane said that both he and White had agreed that there was a lack of coaching of coaches in the country, especially at schools level and White felt he was an "outstanding identifier" of talent at junior level.
"(White) felt this could be maximised by virtue of a player agency in which the youngster's future could be guided professionally by White and (Highbury), with White providing the rugby intellectual capital and (Highbury) the business expertise, both from an intellectual point of view and because of access to existing resource," he said.
The company was called "Jake White's Winning Way".
Jones' involvement was to be beyond a consultancy level as their intention was to "explore the Japanese emerging rugby market" as the country was due to host the Rugby World Cup in 2019.
