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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  • 101.Hurricane: Reply to this comment
    6 Dec 2011, 10:09 am

    @Sasuke(Sasuke)-98:
    And #99 is the answer.

  • 102.Hurricane: Reply to this comment
    6 Dec 2011, 10:10 am

    @vasteses(vasteses)-100:
    No you really dont know the answer. But read post #99. Theres your answer

  • 103.Gunther: Reply to this comment
    6 Dec 2011, 10:12 am

    @Hurricane(Hurricane)-94:

    of course it is.

    and if ritchie says he was gouged then he was gouged.

    I think we should do away with the citing process altogether and just ask old Ritchie what he thinks afterwards.

    or anytime within a six month window.

    so if he needs to liven up talk that he is being paid for he can just pop it in.

  • 104.vasteses: Reply to this comment
    6 Dec 2011, 10:13 am

    @Hurricane(Hurricane)-99:

    look i am not saying he made us lose we did al that on our own, and that started 4 years ago for various reasons. we had ample opportunity to win the QF. however he was one of the worst refs in WC i was dumb struck by his appointment.

  • 105.Sasuke: Reply to this comment
    6 Dec 2011, 10:13 am

    @vasteses(vasteses)-100: I was responding to Katman about the supersport gig that Vic got.

    @vasteses(vasteses)-100: Yes it is the former right.

  • 106.PissAnt: Reply to this comment
    6 Dec 2011, 10:15 am

    Gert is indeed the front runner.

  • 107.stormersboy: Reply to this comment
    6 Dec 2011, 10:16 am

    @Robzim(Robzim)-61: Bud Spencer and Terrence Hill?

  • 108.au revoir mon tout noirs, au revoir...: Reply to this comment
    6 Dec 2011, 10:16 am

    @vasteses(vasteses)-78:
    ons sal maar moet sien hoe die nuwe era uit sal speel vir wp. vir my lyk die situasie iets wat droewig vir weepee. vir al rassie se uitstaande kwaliteite as dor en allister se gawe as afrigter is dit, soos jy se, waar dat hulle goie jong spelers verloor.

    dit kom maar altyd terug na lojaliteid, vir my.

  • 109.PissAnt: Reply to this comment
    6 Dec 2011, 10:17 am

    And it is not that far-fetched that De Villiers will be given an interim position to prepare for England tour either as care-taker coach.

  • 110.Hurricane: Reply to this comment
    6 Dec 2011, 10:17 am

    @Gunther(gunther)-103:
    Its not what Richie has said. In fact it was bought up weeks ago and not by Ritchie.
    And it does not help that the French said they will do illegal and bad tactics
    to win.
    Even been seen on replays.
    But go on, think that its all Richie here. Not one bad word from you about the Rougie eye gouging at all.

  • 111.Gunther: Reply to this comment
    6 Dec 2011, 10:17 am

    @>^..^< katman(katman)-95:

    Victor better make sure he’s got no skeletons in his armoire.

    History tells us that Supersport presenters have a history of exposing themselves.

  • 112.vasteses: Reply to this comment
    6 Dec 2011, 10:18 am

    @vasteses(vasteses)-104:

    no the answer is that the IRB, is clamping on foul play, looking at new ways to improve the game, siting players for using wrongly branded mouthguards, but not doing anything on substandard refereeing, and here i am not isolating bryce, i think the final was also handled poorly, the are variuos games in super rugby that was in schambles due to poor refereeing. the IRB must do some thing

  • 113.>^..^< katman: Reply to this comment
    6 Dec 2011, 10:19 am

    @Gunther(gunther)-103: I must admit I would never have put you down for a moustache guy. I’m assuming it’s not just a Movember thing.

    Classy music vid though:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DbYtqAWDF2U

    Your website could use some work:

    http://www.gunthernet.com/

  • 114.stormersboy: Reply to this comment
    6 Dec 2011, 10:19 am

    @Tacitus(Deucalion)-76: It’s about time that Brock got that Bok call up.

    Not so sure about the Flyhalf though.

    I was thinking Burton Francis, now that he’s moved down to the Cape.

  • 115.Hurricane: Reply to this comment
    6 Dec 2011, 10:19 am

    @vasteses(vasteses)-104:
    Well if you dont think he made you lose then i take my hat of to you.
    Cos we all know he didnt help but was not the main culprit.
    And i agree with you, i cant see for the life of me why Bryce was even considered to get this award.

  • 116.Hurricane: Reply to this comment
    6 Dec 2011, 10:20 am

    @>^..^< katman(katman)-113:
    lol

  • 117.Gunther: Reply to this comment
    6 Dec 2011, 10:21 am

    @Hurricane(Hurricane)-110:

    read the article silly boy.

    Ritchie was “suprised” nobody was cited.

    Paddy can expect a phonecall.

    I expect the Hague to get involved. “Rougie” can expect a cell next to Charles Taylor in the Idi Amin Memorial Wing.

  • 118.>^..^< katman: Reply to this comment
    6 Dec 2011, 10:21 am

    @Gunther(gunther)-111: It’s the old chicken and egg conundrum. Were they freaks before Supersport, or did the channel make them so?

  • 119.au revoir mon tout noirs, au revoir...: Reply to this comment
    6 Dec 2011, 10:23 am

    @grant10(grant10)-92:
    i agree with you on spies. his form has been putrid.
    i do not agree with you on morne though. there is still a place for him in the bok setup. you watch..records will fall…

  • 120.Tacitus: Reply to this comment
    6 Dec 2011, 10:25 am

    Gert “WP” Smal.

    Oh boy.

  • 121.WOLFMAN21: Reply to this comment
    6 Dec 2011, 10:25 am

    @Hurricane(Hurricane)-115: Who else was nominated?

  • 122.Hurricane: Reply to this comment
    6 Dec 2011, 10:26 am

    @Gunther(gunther)-117:
    What are you really getting at here?
    Honestly, eye gouging is terrible, but here you are complaining about Richie cos he was eye gouged.
    And your calling me the silly boy, lol.
    The media spotted the whole thing the next day and said he should be cited.
    Not one peep out of Ritchie. Now he says something and its wrong.
    The Frenchie should have been cited dont you think?

  • 123.Gunther: Reply to this comment
    6 Dec 2011, 10:26 am

    @>^..^< katman(katman)-113:

    fuckyou.

    I’m expecting a Grammy for that.

    And that’s not a moustache.

    It’s a pussyduster.

  • 124.Hurricane: Reply to this comment
    6 Dec 2011, 10:26 am

    @WOLFMAN21(WOLFMAN21)-121:
    Should have been me wolfie, telling you i reffed a good game a few years ago. :-)

  • 125.Tacitus: Reply to this comment
    6 Dec 2011, 10:27 am

    Staal, waar is jy/

    Gaan dit Heyneke wees of nie?

  • 126.au revoir mon tout noirs, au revoir...: Reply to this comment
    6 Dec 2011, 10:27 am

    @Hurricane(Hurricane)-110:
    at least they are honest about it. the all blacks somehow delude themselves into thinking their dirty play away. like thats gonna help.
    ostrich head in the sand come to mind?

    @Gunther(gunther)-111:
    victor goes in for a lot of things but he will never…never…go in for that…

  • 127.stormersboy: Reply to this comment
    6 Dec 2011, 10:28 am

    @>^..^< katman(katman)-113: Chicks dig the Mo’.

    It makes them want to touch his “tra-la-la”

  • 128.Hurricane: Reply to this comment
    6 Dec 2011, 10:28 am

    @au revoir mon tout noirs, au revoir…(i_love_u_bakkiesbotha)-126:
    Well with the name i love Bakkies, i think you really should not join this converstaion :-)

  • 129.>^..^< katman: Reply to this comment
    6 Dec 2011, 10:29 am

    @Gunther(gunther)-123: Tell me, Günther, how did you come up with the lyrics “you touch my tralala, my ding ding dong”? Because that’s sheer genius.

  • 130.Gunther: Reply to this comment
    6 Dec 2011, 10:31 am

    @stormersboy(stormersboy)-127:

    Thank you for that.

    I will send you a Gunther apron from my shop.

  • 131.grant10: Reply to this comment
    6 Dec 2011, 10:31 am

    realy have reservations about Smal…..

  • 132.WOLFMAN21: Reply to this comment
    6 Dec 2011, 10:31 am

    @Hurricane(Hurricane)-124: Lol – I bet you reffed the ruck better than Bryce did!

  • 133.Gunther: Reply to this comment
    6 Dec 2011, 10:32 am

    @Hurricane(Hurricane)-122:

    Ritchie sqeals like bacon.

    deal with my boy.

  • 134.Hurricane: Reply to this comment
    6 Dec 2011, 10:34 am

    @Gunther(gunther)-133:
    The one sqealing here is you and your mostache.
    But serious question, do you think the Frenchie should have been cited?

  • 135.au revoir mon tout noirs, au revoir...: Reply to this comment
    6 Dec 2011, 10:34 am

    @Hurricane(Hurricane)-128:
    bakkies has become an unfairly maligned bogeyman.

    for the most part the ‘bogeyman in the cupbaord’ is just in the ‘little kiddies’ at the nzru and irb’s imiagination…s’true… :grin:

    he plays hard…but he plays fair…

  • 136.Hurricane: Reply to this comment
    6 Dec 2011, 10:36 am

    @WOLFMAN21(WOLFMAN21)-132:
    lol

  • 137.Hurricane: Reply to this comment
    6 Dec 2011, 10:38 am

    @au revoir mon tout noirs, au revoir…(i_love_u_bakkiesbotha)-135:
    hahaha
    last line is a classic, in fact if you were a wooden girl, your nose would be threw your monitor as we speak.
    :-)

  • 138.Gunther: Reply to this comment
    6 Dec 2011, 10:38 am

    @Hurricane(Hurricane)-134:

    that’s up to the citing commissioner not ritchie.

    oink.

  • 139.Tacitus: Reply to this comment
    6 Dec 2011, 10:41 am

    Kiwis just seem to have turned into real pansies in the last 10 years. On the field, that is.

    This choir boy image makeover campaign tends to be hampered, though, by the odd unfortunate drunken brawl in various bars and clubs. Oh, and did I mention that these drunken brawls also happen to be conducted in the nude?

    If not, let me confirm. The brawler may or may not be naked, depending on his inclination at the time.

  • 140.Hurricane: Reply to this comment
    6 Dec 2011, 10:43 am

    @Gunther(gunther)-138:
    Thought you would cower out of that question.
    But seen as you spout your opinions all over this site i thought you might have one for my question.

    And yes pink is your colour…..oink

  • 141.Transformation: Reply to this comment
    6 Dec 2011, 10:43 am

    @Gunther(gunther)-117: why is richie “suprised”?

    does he not understand the concept of and “elapsed citing window? lauaki clothes lined habana and the citing commissioner never filed the report on time and off was sione.

    him feigning suprise is typical kiwis tryna influence the IRB again.

  • 142.Hurricane: Reply to this comment
    6 Dec 2011, 10:45 am

    @Tacitus(Deucalion)-139:
    You mean pansies beat you team consistently. Bugger that.

  • 143.Gunther: Reply to this comment
    6 Dec 2011, 10:52 am

    @Transformation(Transformation)-141:

    exactly.

    But try expalining that to Hermaphrodite.

    @Hurricane(Hurricane)-140:

    That is what this site is for.

    So tha people can express their opinions.

    Mine is that Reetchie is a squealer,

    If you don’t like people expressing their opinions then my I suggest silver fern, a place where opinions are verbotten and little trolls like you get sent to the cyberspace naughty corner.

    :lol:

  • 144.Transformation: Reply to this comment
    6 Dec 2011, 10:56 am

    @Tacitus(Deucalion)-139: “Oh, and did I mention that these drunken brawls also happen to be conducted in the nude?”

    Tac, surely you saw that the okes who blew snak-like horns before every RWC game were kaalpollie save for a few blades of grass. it is cultural in NZ to be in the “nude” ;)

  • 145.WOLFMAN21: Reply to this comment
    6 Dec 2011, 10:58 am

    @Transformation(Transformation)-144: So Guildford was just practicing some Kiwi culture?

  • 146.David: Reply to this comment
    6 Dec 2011, 11:00 am

    @PissAnt(PissAnt)-109:
    I agree. The announcement is scheduled the week before the 6N starts, probably to allow Gert time to prepare Ireland and then announce his decision to leave after the 6N, which only in March. That late January date tipped me off, as it is too late for a current S15 coach to resign.

  • 147.bryce_in_oz: Reply to this comment
    6 Dec 2011, 11:02 am

    @BuckT(BuckTrendy)-69:

    Sound like a nice big government appeaser position of little to no net worth but window-dressing…

  • 148.grant10: Reply to this comment
    6 Dec 2011, 11:03 am

    so can someone please cut n paste Gert Smals cv here for me

  • 149.Transformation: Reply to this comment
    6 Dec 2011, 11:08 am

    @WOLFMAN21(WOLFMAN21)-145: he is part-Maori isn’t he? :D

  • 150.grant10: Reply to this comment
    6 Dec 2011, 11:20 am

    I see Gert helped Declan in 209 to Irelands 1 st grand slam in 61 years…….

    Also Ireland use Wallce, a great opensider…..brilliant to the ball player.

    Also like the fact Smal was a tough son of a beetch so may not tolerate showponies like Spies .

    My concern is every now and then ireland like that ronan o gara skopskootdoerenagervolg artist…..

    But I am liking some stuff I am reading….

    Just hope Jake did not rub too much off on him…

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