Big Vic’s homesick

Big Vic’s homesick

11 Mar 2008

Toulon’s big signing Victor Matfield has unfinished business in South Africa.

SA Rugby magazine’s Ryan Vrede spent a day in France with the Bok lock, who admits he can’t wait to come home.

“I think I made the move to France two years too early,” Matfield reveals. “The decision to come here was based on the fact that I believed I had two years of international rugby left in me. In my mind, the Lions tour in 2009 was going to be my final series, so I decided that it would be good to finish by experiencing a different rugby culture and be paid handsomely for it in the process.

“Then, after the World Cup, I felt great. At this stage I want to play Test rugby for another four years, with the World Cup in New Zealand the obvious target. If I want to realise that goal, I need to be playing my rugby in South Africa.”

In the article, Matfield talks about his specific goals for the next four years, why he agreed to stay in SA if Heyneke Meyer got the Bok job, playing under Peter de Villiers, his French villa, braaiing in the cold, mentoring a future great and his poker nights.

Also in the new issue of SA Rugby magazine:

– What Toulon owner Mourad Boudjellal wants, he gets. We sit down with the man who’s spared no expense in his quest to gain promotion to the French Top 14

– SA players and coaches on the new laws

– Helping our referees: why the TMO should play a greater role in rugby

– Does Sevens justify the time and money invested in it by Saru and Sasol? We investigate

PLUS: AJ Venter, Timana Tahu, Varsity Cup, Warren Gatland, Gavin Henson, Isma-eel Dollie, Jake White & Bob Skinstad columns

The new issue is on sale from Wednesday. For article layouts visit the SA Rugby magazine page on Facebook. To subscribe click the subscription link under the magazine covers on the home page


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  • 101.Jinx: Reply to this comment
    11 Mar 2008, 13:44 pm

    Katman

    Ooops, yes you sharp-sharp man. Amandla. Pardon me squire.

    Fanks for der help wiff marshmallow Easter eggs.

    Amanda Coetzer yeah she was quite a racket!

  • 102.katman: Reply to this comment
    11 Mar 2008, 13:46 pm

    Tried to talk her into some no-strings fun, but she wouldn’t bite.

  • 103.Jinx: Reply to this comment
    11 Mar 2008, 13:48 pm

    Katman

    She probably felt shy and said: “Katman my man, wait a few years and have a real delicious babe…Ana Ivanovic!!”

  • 104.rangerman: Reply to this comment
    11 Mar 2008, 13:52 pm

    jinx
    is she related to the serbian dictators daughter, slobberdownmycockabitch?

  • 105.Jinx: Reply to this comment
    11 Mar 2008, 13:57 pm

    Rangerman

    Jeez, that’s er…er…um… A bit rough on the ear. You’re a married man an’ all. Keo could ban you heavy-heavy and the Sharks could lose and Zuma could be turned on.

  • 106.Snoek: Reply to this comment
    11 Mar 2008, 13:58 pm

    #104

    Great comment!!

  • 107.rangerman: Reply to this comment
    11 Mar 2008, 13:59 pm

    ja sorry jinx! just couldnt help meself. one time thing and yes, i am a happily married man with a wonderful wife who has a wicked sense of humour (she has two older brothers!).
    lol, wouldnt want to turn Mr Zuma on now, we all know how that ends!

  • 108.rangerman: Reply to this comment
    11 Mar 2008, 14:01 pm

    marriage obviously and i dont know if i can afford any more taxes!

    shot snoek!

  • 109.Jinx: Reply to this comment
    11 Mar 2008, 14:03 pm

    Jeez, next you’ll have Cane giving his jism chirps again. He was outrageously funny with Captail Fantail the other day.

  • 110.Jinx: Reply to this comment
    11 Mar 2008, 14:04 pm

    Captain

  • 111.WP Till I Die: Reply to this comment
    11 Mar 2008, 14:08 pm

    I must admit, I enjoy cane’s comments a lot.

  • 112.Dawn: Reply to this comment
    11 Mar 2008, 14:08 pm

    “Tried to talk her into some no-strings fun, but she wouldn’t bite.

    Comment by katman : March 11, 2008 @ 1:46 pm”

    *****.

    Always infringing on my territory.

  • 113.Green Machine: Reply to this comment
    11 Mar 2008, 14:09 pm

    Hi all,

    gee, Ryan Vrede’s getting around lately? Great reporting.

    This story on Vic. Surely we all saw it coming!? I mean, it was only a matter of time before these expats got home sick. I wonder how the likes of Butch James, Brent Russel and the others that went to the UK are feeling?

  • 114.BlueBlood: Reply to this comment
    11 Mar 2008, 14:09 pm

    The UK adult clubs are pretty crappy.

    Very expensive and often have bouncers that won’t allow you to leave unless they think you have spent enough money.

  • 115.BuckT: Reply to this comment
    11 Mar 2008, 14:10 pm

    blueblood – spearmint and rhino?

  • 116.BuckT: Reply to this comment
    11 Mar 2008, 14:11 pm

    kat – you ever see amanda in real life, she was about 5 foot flat! cute though

  • 117.Jinx: Reply to this comment
    11 Mar 2008, 14:13 pm

    BuckT

    Was she smaller than Dinky Van Rensburg?

  • 118.saffa_guy: Reply to this comment
    11 Mar 2008, 14:14 pm

    Dawn,

    Sjoe, you sound like a premier class domestic executive – cook, clean, extra services. So what’s Katman’s pay like?

  • 119.Dawn: Reply to this comment
    11 Mar 2008, 14:14 pm

    5 foot?

    Midget.

    Easy prey.

  • 120.saffa_guy: Reply to this comment
    11 Mar 2008, 14:15 pm

    Post #114

    This is a family blog. Please, no more of your dirty secrets about how you got ripped off in Soho.

  • 121.saffa_guy: Reply to this comment
    11 Mar 2008, 14:16 pm

    Post #119

    And you’re a bit psycho … you sure have it all

  • 122.Dawn: Reply to this comment
    11 Mar 2008, 14:17 pm

    Wouldn’t say katman is a fair and equitable employer … pays average, empties the leftover wine into a bucket outside the shack, chucks leftover supper through the door (after the labbies are done with it), and I have to wash the Landie and Missus Katman’s Z4 which she use to go shopping.

  • 123.Jinx: Reply to this comment
    11 Mar 2008, 14:17 pm

    Nice song…Psycho killer by Talking Heads.

  • 124.charo: Reply to this comment
    11 Mar 2008, 14:19 pm

    little johnnie is in the bath when mommy walks in.
    points to his nuts and says “are these my brains?”

    “not yet”…. says mommy

  • 125.Jinx: Reply to this comment
    11 Mar 2008, 14:21 pm

    Dawn

    But there’s always a healthy stash from your prolific plant outside your window and he did give you a nice Sony ghetto blaster with a collection of Bob Marley CD’s.

  • 126.Green Machine: Reply to this comment
    11 Mar 2008, 14:22 pm

    Nice one Charo!

    You from Phoenix or Chatsworth? ;-)

  • 127.Dawn: Reply to this comment
    11 Mar 2008, 14:23 pm

    Nee Baas Jinx

    Daai goed behoort aan my man, Benjamin.

    Hy raak bedonnerd if I touch his plants or his CDs.

  • 128.WP Till I Die: Reply to this comment
    11 Mar 2008, 14:24 pm

    Does that mean Dawn has a green thumb?

  • 129.Jinx: Reply to this comment
    11 Mar 2008, 14:25 pm

    Green Machine

    What about Verulam an’ all?

  • 130.rangerman: Reply to this comment
    11 Mar 2008, 14:26 pm

    calling dr greenthumb…..calling dr greenthumb…..

  • 131.charo: Reply to this comment
    11 Mar 2008, 14:27 pm

    the hinnian ous are the cleverest.

    nooit gm, from the larnie part – reservoir hills ekse

  • 132.Big Hit: Reply to this comment
    11 Mar 2008, 14:28 pm

    73.

    I would be happy enough as long as he brings Eddie Jones along with him.

  • 133.rangerman: Reply to this comment
    11 Mar 2008, 14:28 pm

    green, saffa howdy guys!
    machine were you at the game on sat? fark, i nearly screamed my stomach out but luckily the beer weighed it down.

  • 134.Jinx: Reply to this comment
    11 Mar 2008, 14:28 pm

    Charo

    Hahahaha!

  • 135.Dawn: Reply to this comment
    11 Mar 2008, 14:29 pm

    Nothing about me is green.

  • 136.rangerman: Reply to this comment
    11 Mar 2008, 14:29 pm

    charo
    you play for the resevoir hills rhinos?
    we play them this year i think. maybe we can have an ale after.

  • 137.grootblousmile: Reply to this comment
    11 Mar 2008, 14:30 pm

    Toyi Toyi = Industrial Aerobics

  • 138.Jinx: Reply to this comment
    11 Mar 2008, 14:30 pm

    Dawn does not do the thinking man’s cigarette.

    She is purely a Famous Grouse.

  • 139.rangerman: Reply to this comment
    11 Mar 2008, 14:31 pm

    anyone ever heard about the em-otion-ssss paati in chats?

  • 140.rangerman: Reply to this comment
    11 Mar 2008, 14:32 pm

    bobby threw the party and everyone had to dress up as an emotion.

  • 141.Green Machine: Reply to this comment
    11 Mar 2008, 14:33 pm

    Charo,

    Resi’s hey? Lukka!! On the North or South side of the M19? The larnie side is the South side, you know that right? ;-)

    Ranger!!

    Of course I was there! Parked at Rovers at 3:30pm. What a freaking jol!!! I majorly damaged by vocal chords though, especially after that 19 second try!

    But honestly, when the Blues scored their 2nd try, I was silent until the final whistle. I then proceeded to hit the roof! It actually reminded me alot of the Crusaders game last year. When Ndungane scored that try, I really didn’t think Ruan would slot the kick. So I was fairly glum till those flags went up! Delirious is how I would describe myself after that!

    I was East Stand, upper again. You must’ve been in your box again, right?

  • 142.rangerman: Reply to this comment
    11 Mar 2008, 14:34 pm

    sivan turned up naked with only a hollowed out pear on his willy.
    “what is this n’all?”said bobby “what kind of emotion are you sivan?”
    “i’m in dis-pear!” said sivan.

  • 143.Dawn: Reply to this comment
    11 Mar 2008, 14:34 pm

    Jinx

    I will smoke the thinking man’s cigarette for him, after I drink all his Grouse.

  • 144.charo: Reply to this comment
    11 Mar 2008, 14:36 pm

    too old for rugger these days rangerman.

    even my missus reckons i’m passed it for the couch version

    eish

  • 145.rangerman: Reply to this comment
    11 Mar 2008, 14:36 pm

    nah green, in the stands with the plebs as most of my mates went to the berg, b#stards!
    but i had the last laugh as there was no tv there (loteni, you know it?) so they couldnt even watch the game!
    what a jol!

  • 146.rangerman: Reply to this comment
    11 Mar 2008, 14:37 pm

    ag nee man charo!!! you gotta show her you can still crouch, touch, pause….well, you get the analogy i’m sure.

  • 147.Dawn: Reply to this comment
    11 Mar 2008, 14:39 pm

    Problem is most guys don’t bind properly, so they get penalised.

  • 148.rangerman: Reply to this comment
    11 Mar 2008, 14:39 pm

    so siresh turns up at the em-otion-sssss paati also naked with his willy in a bowl of custard.
    “what the hell are you thinking!” says bobby “what kind of emotion are you, you silly naked fella!”
    “i’m f#cking dis-custard!” says siresh.

  • 149.Green Machine: Reply to this comment
    11 Mar 2008, 14:40 pm

    HAHA!!!!

    How can anyone go away to a place with no TV on the weekend of the Sharks vs Blues AT the tank!!??

    Loteni? I been there, mate! Quiet lil’ hunting farm with a quaint river running in the valley. Same place, right?

  • 150.rangerman: Reply to this comment
    11 Mar 2008, 14:40 pm

    ok, no more jokes from me!

    dawnie, i thought you only got penalised for not entering thru the gate?

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