in Super 14, was voted out of office. His successor, Oregan Hoskins, ran on a platform that included scrapping, or at least radically modifying, the promotion/relegation system introduced by van Rooyen. A budget of R12m was made available by SARU for the Spears to campaign in 2006, pre the 2007 Super Rugby Tournament in which they were entrenched for the Super Rugby Tournament in 2007 and 2008. It is this entrenchment that would have left one or at the most 2 of the existing Super Rugby sides without any competition or tournaments to play and would have led to complications with player and sponsorship agreements. As a consequence the 5 CEO's of the Bulls, Cheetahs, Lions, Sharks and Stormers collaborated in an "all-for-one and one-for-all" to out vote the incumbent SARU President Brian van Rooyen and replace him with Oregan Hoskins a conveyancing attorney from Pietermaritzburg. It was Hoskins' brief to specifically shut down the Spears operation. From January 2006 to May 2006 the Spears had to arrange their own tournaments and games and did this themselves by organising over 10 Matches, 5 "internationals" the others against 5 provincial sides (3 - Kenya, 2 - Namibia, Cheetahs, Lions, WP, Border and SWD). The Spears were captained by Ashley Johnson, who led a team of 30 players accompanied by 5 management staff, who played games against WP, Lions, Cheetahs, Border and the Eagles in front of crowds up to 35,000 at Telkom Park in Mandela Bay and to capacity in East London's stadium of 15,000. The 5 International games were organised by the Spears, as the Lions had to do in 2013, when they sat out a season in favour of the Southern Kings, as SA Rugby failed to establish a tournament roster for either the Spears in 2006 or any one or two, of the Super Rugby franchises (Bulls, Cheetahs, Lions, Sharks and WP) who would have had to sit out for the 2007 and 2008 Super Rugby season. This would have been economically fatal for the franchises. The Spears games were played against Kenya's National squad in a Tri-Game Series of 2 home in Mandela Bay and the Woolfson Stadium and one Away game in Nairobi at the Olympic stadium. Peter de Villiers the Head Coach felt it important to expose the Spears squad to international team travel and squad assembly in preparation for the Super 15 in 2007