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Kings beg, borrow, steal for Super Rugby future

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CONCERNED:  Southern Kings coach Deon Davids hopes his team will stay in the competition. (Michael Sheehan, Gallo Images)
CONCERNED: Southern Kings coach Deon Davids hopes his team will stay in the competition. (Michael Sheehan, Gallo Images)

Port Elizabeth - One of the best ways to squeeze a fair deal out of life is not only to accept that your circumstances are your own, but to foster the kind of intimate relationship with them that may improve them.

While not quite resigned to it just yet, Southern Kings coach Deon Davids – after 27 years of coaching – understands that the only constant in the jobs he’s done is that he’s had to do them the ambulance way or with a heavy dose of crisis management.

Throughout his coaching stints – from the University of the Western Cape, the Boland Cavaliers, SWD Eagles and the Golden Lions to the Southern Kings – Davids has had to beg, borrow and steal to get a competitive team onto the park.

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