SuperSport United coach Gavin Hunt has reacted to Tshakhuma Tsha Madzivhandila’s relegation to the regional ABC Motsepe League with a mysterious post, “Bidvest Wits gone, just like that”.
TTM bought the status of Hunt’s Bidvest Wits at the end of 2019/20 season, with the former Kaizer Chiefs coach not kept by the club because they deemed him to be too expensive.
When TTM bought Wits status, plenty of trouble followed, with the club’s first game in the 2020/21 season in the MTN8 quarter-final against Sekhukhune having 14 players in the starting line-up.
Then during that season, chairman Lawrence Mulaudzi struggled financially to keep the club afloat. He then sold it to Abram Sello in that season, who then led it to the Nedbank Cup triumph.
Sello then changed the club name to Marumo Gallants at the beginning of last term, but he too has struggled to keep things functioning.
However, TTM wasn’t dead as Mulaudzi “bought” the Motsepe Foundation Championship status of Royal AM, after boss Shauwn Mkhize had purchased the status of Bloemfontein Celtic.
But financial issues too continued to be the order of the day, leading the club to be relegated this season and leaving Hunt reacting mysteriously.
Hunt, in seven seasons with Wits, won the league title, first in 99 years, then MTN8 and Telkom Knockout. He was in charge of 271 matches in all competitions.
Hunt also reacted to the relegation of another Limpopo side, Black Leopards, to the ABC Motsepe League. He coached them between July 2001 and June 2002.
He helped Lidoda Duvha to the top-eight finish in his only stint then before he left at the end of that season to join Moroka Swallows
“Leopards too,” in short.
