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The season opener, as always, is the much-vaunted MTN8 competition that pits last season's top eight teams against each other to see who is best.

So it is perhaps fitting that it is defending champions and last season's treble winners, Orlando Pirates, who get to do the honours of getting the new campaign off the ground.

The Mighty Buccaneers face a new-look Bloemfontein Celtic at Orlando Stadium in Soweto this evening. And all eyes are on them as football followers wait in anticipation of whether they will be able to repeat the heroics of the past two seasons.

The majority of Premier Soccer League clubs, with the exception of Moroka Swallows, have gone the extra mile to beef up their squads in order to be more competitive than before.

That augurs well for supporters since it shows the clubs' hunger for success and honours.

While other clubs are content with being also-rans or being there just to make up the numbers, others are ambitious and want to stand up and be counted as champions.

Going into the market and bidding for the best players around helps build the brand and to attract more supporters.

By the time others catch a wake up there wont be much available on the market and no one to blame.

Pirates have raised the bar and are obviously the team to beat. That's an enviable position to be in.

Let the games begin!

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Mon May 20 15:56:13 SAST 2013 ::

Aug 3, 2012

GORRILAH

Yep I am happy that the league is begining and khoza must extend the teams back to 18 or 20 seroius for more games. If there are no games on T.V its a problem for us guys in our own houses. Haaaaapppppyyyyyy let the games begin.
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Aug 3, 2012

Phuphethakatha

Happy days are here again !!!
@Gorrilah
Diversify Bro, music shows etc...
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Aug 3, 2012

GORRILAH

@Phuphethakatha hai music shows are for gays and women man.

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Aug 3, 2012

Pitshana

yep yep no more boring weekends....Let the games begin Up the bucs
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Aug 3, 2012

Stumaeza

GO JEWA BATHO
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Aug 4, 2012

1andonlybucs

let the games begin. the ghost is ready.. are the rest ready??????????????
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Aug 6, 2012

PipiYaTau

@The Writer & Editor
"MTN8 competition that pits last season's top eight teams against each other to see who is best."
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How can u write the above statement when we already know who is the best from "last season's top eight" if not the last 16. Mr writer and editor plese come up with a better line to emphesize the Top 8 competition. Because the above line is an insult to the archievemnts of the last season log champions...
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