Matfield joins Bulls as consultant

Matfield joins Bulls as consultant

5 Dec 2011

The Bulls have signed former Springbok lock Victor Matfield as a lineout consultant for the 2012 Super Rugby season.

The Bulls have confirmed that Matfield will work alongside the coaching staff, focusing on lineouts and general forward play.

‘Victor has been the backbone of the Bulls for many seasons and to have his continued presence in the team, although unfortunately not as a player anymore, is a real bonus for us,’ said Bulls director of rugby Heyneke Meyer.

‘He is generally rated as the finest lineout analyst in the game and we are proud and honoured to have him around.’

Matfield will also work as an analyst for Supersport next year.

‘I am very keen to get stuck in [on television] and will give it a full go, but it is no secret that I want to become involved in coaching too. This will afford me the opportunity to do both, something that I am very pleased about,’ Matfield said.


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  • 151.Transformation: Reply to this comment
    6 Dec 2011, 11:31 am

    @grant10(grant10)-150: heaslip plays 8, stephen ferris plays 6 and sean o’brien plays 7

  • 152.grant10: Reply to this comment
    6 Dec 2011, 11:34 am

    @Transformation(Transformation)-151: sorry…my bad…it is that O brien that so mpressed me

  • 153.Beast: Reply to this comment
    6 Dec 2011, 11:47 am

    Welcome back Big Vic. Knew it would not be long before he is back in the system.

  • 154.David: Reply to this comment
    6 Dec 2011, 11:52 am

    @grant10(grant10)-148:
    Don’t be such a lazy bast*rd. Go Google it yourself. :lol:

  • 155.David: Reply to this comment
    6 Dec 2011, 11:55 am

    @Beast(Beast)-153:
    Just hope he sticks to lineout coaching. If, as he intimitated to John Robbie, the senior players coached the Boks, I wouldn’t trust him with anything more important after the Boks record in the last 2 years.

  • 156.Hurricane: Reply to this comment
    6 Dec 2011, 12:38 pm

    @Gunther(gunther)-143:
    i am no troll.
    I tell it as i see it, like you i suppose, but not with the chip.
    Its funny how you cant answer my question though.

  • 157.itsamyth: Reply to this comment
    6 Dec 2011, 13:30 pm

    I salute you Victor, a lineout expert without peer in ANY generation. You are a true rugby genius, the likes of which will not be seen in my lifetime again. On top of that you are humble and a gentlemen. How you never got IRB player of the year is a complete mystery seeing as you decimated all opposition with the regularity and ease of which only a sublime and dedicated talent is capable. You and Mark Andrews (a hybrid of you and Bakkies combined) would have formed a lock combination sent from the rugby gods! You and Bakkies were pretty close too!Thank you for the memories and I look forward to reading your recently launched book.

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