Hayman seeks farm sweetener
9 Feb 2010
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Hayman seeks farm sweetener
The three parties responsible for Carl Hayman’s impending return to New Zealand will help the tighthead acquire a dairy farm to sweeten the deal.
Taranaki, the Hurricanes and the New Zealand Rugy Union have all been in talks with Hayman, who’s contract with English club Newcastle expires this May. According to reports Down Under, the 30-year-old Hayman will return to play for Taranaki in the 2010 New Zealand Cup.
It’s also been reported that the three parties would facilitate buying a dairy farm in the Taranaki province. Taranaki chairman Peter Crawford, however, claims to have not heard about this part of the deal, and said there would be no deal if the three parties and Hayman couldn’t come to an agreement.
‘If that does come up [the farm issue] we will seriously look at it, but it hasn’t been discussed,’ he told the Taranaki Times. ‘If we can get it to that stage we will be giving everything to get it done.’
Hurricanes chief executive Greg Peters told Fairfax Media it was wrong for anyone to suggest that a farm would be given to Hayman as part of any deal.
‘It is not a payment to Carl Hayman. It’s Taranaki facilitating him getting into a farm. That means pointing him in the right direction and, potentially through other means, to help him on to a farm. It doesn’t mean Taranaki’s buying him a farm. It’s part of the total package.’
Peters added that Hayman’s return would be long-term, in other words, the All Blacks prop is likely to be signed for two years.
‘It’s a statement that he wants to be part of the New Zealand framework. He’s not, as we understand it, going to just waltz back in for the Tri-Nations. He will play the New Zealand Cup and then be available for the end-of-year tour.’
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9 Feb 2010, 08:05 am
what???
9 Feb 2010, 08:07 am
see the lengths these kiwis will go for a world class tighthead?
And we choose a hooker?
Hope you taking note PDV.
9 Feb 2010, 08:11 am
@grant10: I do however think the Kiwis are a bit more desperate for a wc win than we will be. They’ll pimp out their own granny just to be able to at least touch old William Web Ellis’s cuppa.
Btw, John Smit to single handedly destroy the stormers scrum. LOL
9 Feb 2010, 08:12 am
Don’t give the South African authorities any ideas. They’ll expropriate a farm to get Mujati back..
9 Feb 2010, 08:14 am
@FireStraeuli:
How many teams will ever be able to boast of a RWC and the Tri-nations…not to mention a few others…*sigh*
9 Feb 2010, 08:15 am
s14 Fantasy manager http(colon)//s14fantasy(dot)foxsports(dot)com(dot)au/M/home(dot)mc join the league using the code 501-127. Time to see who really knows their rugby.
9 Feb 2010, 08:15 am
@grant10: Lol. I admire your focus!
This sounds pretty funny – perhaps he will be allowed to use the academy players as farm help? Become the sole provider of dairy products to the NZ rugby board? Become the new shirt sponsor?
Carl “The milk man” Hayman.
9 Feb 2010, 08:18 am
@Predawn: Australia.
9 Feb 2010, 08:18 am
Best we start deciding if WC 2011 going to be a serious attempt to retain the title….or a tribute to the aging 2007 stars…
i am dead serious….
no time to mess around….those kiwis are not fannying about.
Hayman scares the hell out of me…
9 Feb 2010, 08:21 am
@WOLFMAN21:
..and the others…there is a long list.
It’ll never happen in this century.
9 Feb 2010, 08:22 am
Well SARU… why have you not thought of this?
We have much more farmland available than New Zeeland…
Quickly start buying farms for BJ & CJ…
9 Feb 2010, 08:25 am
@Rum And Maple: Oh…
And maybe a wine farm for JvD…
And a nice farmgirl (or boy) for Frans Steyn…
That shoul’d do it!
9 Feb 2010, 09:15 am
@Predawn: Good chance of it happening this decade I reckon.
Only three teams can do it – NZ, Aus and South Africa.
9 Feb 2010, 09:43 am
should only be 4074 articles youve “written” JC, I read this very article word for word yesterday in the Wellington Dominion Post…
your ctrl-c and ctrl-v buttons must be that worn…
though selectively, you missed this line, gutter journalism at its finest, still breeding the hate huh..
“He said the talk of a farm in any deal had surprised him, given that there had been no discussions about it with Hayman’s agent. “
9 Feb 2010, 09:45 am
and more from the Dominion Post..
“Hurricanes chief executive Greg Peters told Fairfax Media it was wrong for anyone to suggest that a farm would be given to Hayman as part of any deal.
“Taranaki is the province he would be contracted to and that’s where the farm thing comes into it,” he said.
“It is not a payment to Carl Hayman. It’s Taranaki facilitating him getting into a farm. That means pointing him in the right direction and, potentially through other means, to help him on to a farm. It doesn’t mean Taranaki’s buying him a farm. It’s part of the total package.”
9 Feb 2010, 10:14 am
Return of the real Beast – let see how the SA pretender handles the Hayman !!!!!
9 Feb 2010, 10:49 am
Where do I pay ?
9 Feb 2010, 10:51 am
He should contact Mugabe. He’s got plenty to give away.
9 Feb 2010, 10:52 am
@Predawn: @5
perhaps you should just concentrate on defending a TriN title for now. That would be another 1st for SA.
9 Feb 2010, 10:54 am
(intro music please) Pink Panther
9 Feb 2010, 10:56 am
@Rum And Maple: Yes, give old Fransie a chance to farm with some Stallions.
9 Feb 2010, 10:57 am
This is the best news Ive heard all week. Its even better than Smit signing on to cover both prop and hooker.
9 Feb 2010, 10:59 am
Fransie will probably want n stud fram.
9 Feb 2010, 11:00 am
@Pink Panther: What? Hayman getting a farm…is he that good a farmer?
9 Feb 2010, 11:01 am
@FireStraeuli: @20
you know what, you guys are just the funniest.
Whatever has his ‘apple’ jokes
You have your ‘Pink Panther’ jokes.
Everyone has their own ‘sheep’ jokes.
I just dont where you all get em. We’re all rolling in the aisles here. Such fresh exciting new material, the comedy clubs in SA must do a roaring trade.
Keep it up !!!!!
9 Feb 2010, 11:04 am
@Pink Panther: You have no idea, and we’re just the amateurs, you should hear the pro’s going at it…a laugh a second.
9 Feb 2010, 11:06 am
@poppa69:
@Black Panther:
Great that he’s coming back though chaps, massive boost for 11′.
9 Feb 2010, 11:10 am
Not only will the Canes be getting the best TH going, but a great line-out lifter as well. 1.93 metres of skytower.
Come in Haymaker.
9 Feb 2010, 11:17 am
@cane: Well I guess he has to, while the sun shines. Carl is no spring chicken.
9 Feb 2010, 11:22 am
All Black front row 2011.(possible)
The Haymaker.
*****.
Timber ****.
Should keep a few Teams honest.
9 Feb 2010, 11:22 am
@stew: Ag shame, NZ suffering from a bit of Beast envy?
9 Feb 2010, 11:23 am
@katman:
Think he’s 29, perfect age for props.
9 Feb 2010, 11:25 am
@cane: You wanna scrum or mate?
9 Feb 2010, 11:26 am
@FireStraeuli:
The finest prop Zim as ever produced.
9 Feb 2010, 11:26 am
@katman:
Front Rowers peak 29-32yrs. Providing of course they have had no debilitating injuries.
You Okes should get Eddie Andrews back.
9 Feb 2010, 11:27 am
@FireStraeuli: In your dreams as soon as the Big man is back your beast will be running back to Zim !!!
9 Feb 2010, 11:27 am
@cane: Take the ***** out and put Kevin in and we’re talking business. Mind you, that front row has an awfully familiar look about it. Wish we had that kind of consistency up front.
@NZINCHINA: Yep, he’s thirty. But you kiwis break down a couple of years earlier than most. So he’s got about two seasons left.
9 Feb 2010, 11:28 am
@cane: Would like to see Corey Flynn in the mix
9 Feb 2010, 11:28 am
@katman:
Thats great 2 seasons is all we need him for!
9 Feb 2010, 11:29 am
@NZINCHINA: Well, shame on AB’s then, Best of Zim able to outscrum the mighty AB’s…I wont be telling anyone else if I were you.
9 Feb 2010, 11:32 am
@NZINCHINA: Alongside Olo Brown, perhaps?
9 Feb 2010, 11:34 am
@FireStraeuli:
I am only suggesting Fireman, that it might be wise for opposing front rows to liberally slap on some ky jelly, particularly around their more sensitive areas.
They will be rogered.
9 Feb 2010, 11:35 am
@FireStraeuli:
NZ very rarely gets outscummed
@katman:
Are you talking about his quality being up there with Olo?
9 Feb 2010, 11:37 am
@NZINCHINA: Very true, it only happens three times a year.
9 Feb 2010, 11:38 am
@cane: Okay, so it will be mating season then it seems…lol
9 Feb 2010, 11:39 am
@NZINCHINA: they were outscrummed in the 3n 2009.
by the same front row all the capies are rushing to discard.
its odd, but we have to live with the republic of capetown and its residents.
9 Feb 2010, 11:42 am
Why a dairy farm? Surely they mean a sheep farm?
9 Feb 2010, 11:44 am
@FireStraeuli: Only happens three times in 2009.
9 Feb 2010, 11:45 am
You Saffas would have a pathetic Scrum if it were not for all the Dutchies you have stolen/burgled/poached over the last 350 years.
You lot have done nothing for the growth of The Hollanders as a Rugby Nation.
9 Feb 2010, 11:46 am
@THEBokFan:
At heart we are all Cowboys.
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