Eastern Province Rugby Union (EPRU) president Cheeky Watson must "be a man" and own up for the mess he put the union in, says one of the tormented former players, JC Roos. Watson survived another attempt to unseat him at the continuation of the annual general meeting at Algoa Park, Port Elizabeth, on Thursday, getting a looming vote of no confidence vetoed on a technicality. This was despite disavowing his responsibility to pay player, management and staff salaries.story_article_left1Roos is the first player to speak out since 18 players filed for the liquidation of EPRU and EP Kings Pty (Ltd) after they failed to pay salaries since September. He has not received a cent since joining them from the Pumas late last year and is owed R125000 in three-month earnings.After giving up his life in Nelspruit in search of a possible Super Rugby opportunity, Roos sold almost everything and drove down to start afresh in Port Elizabeth, days after getting married. He was sold a dummy by EP Kings and his marriage didn't start with expected felicity."I wish Watson would own up to what he's done wrong and step up and be a man," said Roos. "I get upset by the fact that he promised so much but delivered nothing. All his statements have been a hoax, like an old fairy tale, and nothing ever comes from them. None of his promises have worked out."The sponsorships he talked about - ones he claimed were the biggest in the world - were a hoax."But Roos is one of the lucky ones. He's looking forward to a two-year stint at Canon Eagles in Japan, starting this April, which might just save his immediate financial future.With a two-year-old son to support, he confessed that, after winning the Vodacom Cup with the Pumas last year, things took a turn for the worse.story_article_right2"This put an incredible amount of strain on my marriage and my life," he said."Me and my wife decided we were going to sell everything in her house and mine in Nelspruit to move into a furnished place in Summerstrand that overlooked the beach, leased for the next two years."But after what happened, the Kings put me in a position where I had to break my contract with the apartment owners and had to move in with my in-laws before Christmas. We don't have any furniture and have lost all the money from selling the stuff we owned which we put into our lease deposit and the move. We are about R40000 to R60000 in the red. For a couple starting out, that's not exactly a comfortable start."At Thursday's meeting, disillusioned clubs failed to meet the required 20% of the 119 clubs to put forward a motion of no confidence in Watson's executive, with just seven meeting the technical requirements.Members begged South African Rugby Union (Saru) representatives - executive committee members Monde Tabata and Francois Davids, vice-president Mark Alexander plus CEO Jurie Roux - to order an administrative intervention in the union's affairs.The liquidation suit against the EP Kings will be heard on March 10...