Toulon’s crazy president, Mourad Boudjellal, seems to be playing a crazy game of “collect and keep” and seemingly won’t rest until he’d had the entire Bulls “class of 2007″ in his clutches at one time or another! [...]
Posts tagged with: Victor Matfield
Another old Bull for Toulon
de Villiers vs Meyer – who is better?
13 Sep 12 13:30 by Richard Ferguson | All Blacks, Original Content, Springboks, The Rugby Championship | 63 Comments
Heyneke Meyer and his selections and lack of a game plan that can win the Springboks a game of rugby has received a lot of air-time this week, with plenty of calls prior to the announcement of the team for both Johan Goosen and Pat Lambie to be included in the squad. My mind wandered to a time when we complained about the same two issues but with a different coach in charge. [...]
All brawn and no brains
10 Sep 12 09:09 by The Quirk | All Blacks, In the news, Original Content, Springboks, The Rugby Championship | 12 Comments
I’ve been watching the Springboks since their unbanning in the early nineties, and I think it’s fair to say I’ve been “a long suffering supporter”… Yes we’ve won two world cups, and we have a few Tri-Nations under our belt, not nearly as many as we’d like but hey, that is sport… [...]
Legends return to Kings Park en masse
John Smit will play on the hallowed Kings Park turf one last time this evening, as he leads his Barney’s Army Invitational XV onto the pitch that he has played on with distinction innumerable times over the last 15 years or so. [...]
Kockott returns to Shark Tank (but read on…)
John Smit has revealed most of the squad that will play in his Barney’s Army testimonial game at Kings Park on Friday night; one name that I wasn’t expecting to see belongs to former Sharks scrumhalf Rory Kockott. [...]
Matfield would have played…
Victor Matfield might well have led the Boks against the English in the June tests, if it was not for an IRB rule preventing the big lock from playing. [...]
Meyer: No Matfield, but maybe FdP
New Springbok coach Heyneke Meyer finally put to bed months of media speculation over the possible return of retired lock Victor Matfield. [...]
Bok selection countdown – Second row
The Springboks face the English in a three test series starting 9 June 2012, which is just around the corner, with Heyneke Meyer taking charge of his first team of Springboks. He will have a difficult time selecting a team that he had in mind at the start of the season, thanks to many an injury in Super Rugby. [...]
Some perspective on the Matfield saga
Nothing like a little bit of misinformation and conjecture to liven up an otherwise-dull Tuesday, eh? That seemed to be very much the case yesterday as the South African rugby world tied itself into a frenzy about a ridiculously premature – if not outright fanciful – story that Victor Matfield was about to join the Sharks. [...]
New (blue) Bok era dawns
Yesterday’s somewhat unprecedented Sunday press conference, in which SARU finally revealed its worst-ever-kept secret by confirming Rassie Erasmus as Bok High Performance Manager, couldn’t have happened in a more fitting location than Pretoria; in fact, those who have grown used to the 100-year-legacy of a Cape Town power base running South African rugby should probably prepare themselves to shift further North for the foreseeable future, even if just mentally. [...]
Meyer looking for assistants
The Rapport newspaper has reported that SARU and new Springbok coach Heyneke Meyer will meet with Rassie Erasmus this week to discuss his role within the Springbok national team setup. [...]
Have we not seen the last of Matfield?
With the dust still settling on news that Heyneke Meyer will be Springbok coach, should he accept the appointment, startling news surfaced that retired lock Victor Matfield might consider coming out of retirement to play for Meyer. [...]
Matfield to wear two hats
Recently-retired Bok lock Victor Matfield has signed on with the Bulls as a lineout consultant for the 2012 Super Rugby campaign, in addition to his other new role as Supersport rugby analyst next year. [...]
Welcome to the off-season
No, I mean the REAL off season… having one of those “on this day, absolutely nothing happened” moments! [...]
Victor Matfield leads Barbarians
Veteran Bok lock Victor Matfield will captain the Barbarians in his final game this weekend; Matfield will retire from rugby after the festival game at Twickenham which will see the star-studded team take on Australia. [...]
