The Vodacom Bulls on Tuesday confirmed the appointment of Victor Matfield as their new Forwards and Attack Coach for the 2013 Vodacom Super Rugby season, while also naming Derick Hougaard as a skills and kicking coach and Handrè Pollard as part of their extended playing squad for the new season.
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It is easy to criticize and say what Meyer is not getting right at the moment, but has anyone sat back to consider what he is being quite successful in doing in only 7 tests?
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Where Meyer is now more confident in including a number of youngsters for the upcoming test series against England, his most important decision remains who he will select as skipper.
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With no time to prepare for England, new Bok coach Heyneke Meyer may bring back a few more players than just Victor Matfield.
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SA rugby will today announce a number of appointments within its organization, but none more important than Heyneke Meyer’s coaching team.
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Former Springboks and Vodacom Bulls legend Victor Matfield will join the Vodacom Bulls on a consultancy basis for the 2012 Super Rugby season.
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The South African Rugby Union paid tribute to Springbok captain John Smit and vice-captain Victor Matfield today, following their retirement from international rugby.
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I had to re-post this article here because as I read it, I wondered why no respected SA journalist could come up with a fitting tribute like this.
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The captaincy of Victor Matfield was a crucial factor in the Bulls’ Super Rugby victory over the Stormers at Newlands on Saturday, coach Frans Ludeke believes.
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News24 columnist, Gary Boshoff, believes the Springboks will go to the World Cup with confidence given the announcement as Smit and Matfield as the leaders of the squad.
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John Smit, the most capped Test captain in history, was on Monday confirmed as Springbok captain for the 2011 international season.
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Bulls captain Victor Matfield said that he would sleep much easier than the previous time his team enjoyed a week off during the Super Rugby competition.
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Adnaan Mohamed caught up with Springbok coach Peter de Villiers a couple of days before he names his first training group.
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Decorated skipper Victor Matfield is urging the revamped Bulls to turn party-crashers tomorrow night so his barren streak at Suncorp Stadium ends before retirement. Jim Tucker writes in The Couriermail that this feature clash against the Reds will be the South African World Cup champion’s final outing in Brisbane and never has he needed...
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Many rugby players will go down in history as legends, very few will be classed as a genius.
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Springbok rugby and South African rugby in general is coming to the end of an era, and it might be time to think about what the future holds.
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Statistics are like a lamppost to a drunk man. It does not serve to illuminate but rather, to keep him upright.
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Amidst the vigorous debate surrounding head coach Peter de Villiers and his ticket – or not – to the World Cup, people seem to have rather tiptoed around another complex issue: is it really so clear-cut that John Smit will reassume the team leadership reins from stand-in Victor Matfield?
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Victor Matfield did not think anyone was watching but, coughing at the side of the interview room an hour after leading the Springboks to a thunderous victory, the captain’s warrior face crumpled into grimaces of agony.
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When I was a rough and ready flanker for the mighty eighths at Dale College, I played for a teacher whose biology classes I used as an opportunity to catch up on sleep.
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There is not a lot of good news coming from the Bok camp ahead of their test against Scotland.
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Not only are the Springboks ready to win the Grand Slam with victories over Ireland, Wales, Scotland and England, but they also want to win back the confidence of the South African rugby public.
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Blue Bulls captain Victor Matfield definitely made an error of judgement in Saturday’s Currie Cup semi-final against the Sharks, two former Springboks believe.
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Vodacom Blue Bulls coach Frans Ludeke had no hesitation in naming all his available Springboks in the starting line up of the Blue Bulls team to play Griquas in Kimberley on Saturday in the final pool game of Absa’s Currie Cup competition.
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Springbok captain John Smit has made a passionate plea to fans and the people of Pretoria to jam-pack Loftus Versfeld for Saturday’s Tri-Nations encounter between the Boks and Australia to honour rugby great Victor Matfield.
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Earlier today we mentioned that there might be some revelations from within the Bok camp, unfortunately the press conference delivered very little but the biggest surprise might only come when the team is named to take on the Wallabies.
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The psychological war of words has started as Victor Matfield accused the All Blacks of some dodgy tactics ahead of the Soweto Showdown.
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For the best part of Victor Matfield’s playing career, opponents have attempted to find some way of stopping him – and for the most part they’ve failed, according Wallabies forward Dean Mumm.
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