Matfield cleared
22 Feb 2010
Victor Matfield has been found not guilty of foul play in their match against the Brumbies.
The Bulls captain was cited under Law 10.4 (a) for striking Brumbies flanker Rocky Elsom around the head area in the 16th minute of the match. The Springbok lock was also cited under Law 10.4 (k) for charging into a ruck without binding onto another player.
If found guilty Matfield faced at least a one match suspension, but the verdict clears him to front the Waratahs at Loftus on Saturday.
There was more good news for the Bulls when it was revealed that Pierre Spies and Danie Rossouw will be available for selection.
Rossouw missed the Brumbies match with neck spasms, while scans have shown no structural damage to Spies’ knee, which he injured on Saturday. Spies won’t train with the team until Friday, while Rossouw is on light duty throughout the week.
Keo.co.za reported on Sunday that loose forward Dewald Potgieter has recovered from a knee injury and will be available for selection.
Centre Jaco Pretorius (quad strain) will miss the match, but is expected to be fit for their clash with the Highlanders on 13th March (the Bulls have a bye next week).
Rossouw and Potgieter are likely to be thrust straight into the run-on side in place of Flip van der Merwe and Pedrie Wannenberg respectively. Stephan Dippenaar will continue at outside centre in Pretorius’ absence.
Coach Frans Ludeke is now faced with a selection poser on the bench. He’ll have to decide whether to include Van der Merwe, who performed brilliantly against the Brumbies, at the expense of Wannenberg, or whether to axe the young lock in favour of the 100-cap veteran.
Both players could be accommodated if he opts to exclude Derick Kuün, although his dynamism off the bench has served the Bulls well to date.
Bulls (likely) - 15 Zane Kirchner, 14 Gerhard van den Heever, 13 Stephan Dippenaar, 12 Wynand Olivier, 11 Francois Hougaard, 10 Morné Steyn, 9 Fourie du Preez, 8 Pierre Spies, 7 Dewald Potgieter, 6 Deon Stegmann, 5 Victor Matfield (c), 4 Danie Rossouw, 3 Werner Kruger, 2 Gary Botha, 1 Gurthrö Steenkamp.
Subs: 16 Bandise Maku, 17 Bees Roux, 18 Pedrie Wannenburg/Flip van der Merwe, 19 Derick Kuün/Pedrie Wannenberg, 20 Heini Adams, 21 Jacques-Louis Potgieter, 22 John Mametsa.
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22 Feb 2010, 15:23 pm
@ploos: @91
and I just LOVE the way YOU accused little old MOI of “bias…..factually flawed”
only to then turn around with your clincher
“We are without a doubt one of the best behaved teams in world rugby”.
BTW – when you say “it is a well known fact…”, by whom exactly ?
22 Feb 2010, 15:26 pm
@vasteses: The lad has his head on straight. My father instilled, hard tough clean tackles/hits rewards you with ascendancy. My husband has adhered to exactly the same principles. It works, must do, my youngest is studying Law.
22 Feb 2010, 15:26 pm
@Atreides: Bakkies has even cleaned up his act. I must admit he was bordering on ‘thug’ a few years back.
22 Feb 2010, 15:28 pm
@ploos: @103
oh please
can you be the Chosen One ?
the Oracle told me I would meet the Chosen One here, it has been foretold.
Are YOU the Sth African with a sense of humour ?
22 Feb 2010, 15:30 pm
@Black Panther: hahaha the ORACLE
He was on fire yesterday.
22 Feb 2010, 15:34 pm
@ploos: Bakkes is one helluva enforcer. All teams need a bit of mongrel… but you just know when he about to or has just committed an evil act. He gets this devilish sneer on his face. Almost resembles the twitching Elizabeth Montgomery’ character, Samantha from ‘Bewitched’
22 Feb 2010, 15:35 pm
@Black Panther: As Peter de Villiers says, ‘this is a contact sport’.
Why the need to be so contraversial all the time? Talk rugby, not your one sided attacks on Sa players, its getting old now.
22 Feb 2010, 15:37 pm
@RugbyRulz: Thats why Bakkies goes down on his knees and prays before each game, he is asking the lord to forgive him for he is about to do.
22 Feb 2010, 15:39 pm
BP there is one flaw in your assertion concerning Bakkies thuggery and that is that it is well known in rugby circles that if someone is known to be a thug on the field that the opponents will target them. Bakkies as far as I am aware has never been targetted as such by opponents and don’t tell me there aren’t any Kiwis willign to give it a go. They seem to respect our Bakkies.
22 Feb 2010, 15:39 pm
@Black Panther: You really don’t like the Bulls players do you?
22 Feb 2010, 15:40 pm
@ploos: I am not an overtly religious person, but geez he is going to push it one day. Can just see him getting frazzled by a bolt from the blue.
After that he will qualify as a kwota, frazzled and all.
22 Feb 2010, 15:41 pm
@Black Panther: #97 classic WakaNathan stuff
lmao…
22 Feb 2010, 15:42 pm
@ploos:
No he prays that he doesnt kill anyone
22 Feb 2010, 15:44 pm
@ploos: @107
erm
“talk rugby…….but……not players”
?
22 Feb 2010, 15:45 pm
@bananaboy: Players with Bakkes reputation target themselves. Eventually it all comes down to swings and roundabouts… another culture refers to it as karma.
I believe skop has already visited this area, so no point re-hashing it.
22 Feb 2010, 15:45 pm
@ploos: No he is praying that he doesn’t “miss”…
22 Feb 2010, 15:47 pm
@JA-JA: @110
I leave the tribalism to the neanderthals.
No slight intended.
22 Feb 2010, 15:49 pm
@wp_boytjie:
must be lekke playing with him rather than against him
22 Feb 2010, 15:50 pm
@bananaboy:
I dont remember too many players targetted Sir Richard Loe either.
And that guy was a thug.
22 Feb 2010, 15:52 pm
@vasteses: of course , he is the enforcer of all enforcers hahaha
22 Feb 2010, 15:57 pm
@Black Panther:
And I leave the tribadism to the women’s rugby team…
22 Feb 2010, 16:26 pm
I am not surprised he was cleared. I just had another look at it on youtube and he rucked Rocky out the way. He didn’t swing his arm, didn’t dive in and made every effort to shift the player, and based on clip, it wasn’t after the whistle.
No problems there.
22 Feb 2010, 16:33 pm
BOKKE 1981 what a team
Hennie Bekker, WP
Darius Botha, NTVL
Naas Botha, NTVL
Thys Burger Ntvl
Wynand Claasen Natal
Robert Cockrell WP
Willie Du Plessis WP
Hempies Du Toit, WP
Burger Geldenhuys,NTVL
Schalk Burger WP
Gerrie Germishuys, OVS
Johann Heunis,
Johan Wilhelm NTVL
Eben Jansen, OVS
Willie Kahts, NTVL
Fredrich Krantz,OVS
Rob Louw WP
Louis Moolman, NTVL
Ray Mordt, TVL
Ockie Oosthuizen, TVL
Shaun Povey, WP
Divan Serfontein WP
Theuns Stofberg NTVL
Henning v aswegen WP
Flip Van der Merwe, SWD
Gawie Visagie, NATAL
Div Visser WP
Barry Wolmarans OVS
22 Feb 2010, 16:54 pm
Mm tribadism
lol Bakkies is really religious. Most, if not all of the Bulls players are
22 Feb 2010, 17:03 pm
And so Big Victorious marches on…… good riddance, more titles!
22 Feb 2010, 17:16 pm
@vasteses: jeepers, all pale-faced males
22 Feb 2010, 17:21 pm
@Transformation: in saying that… they were very good pale-faced males!
but they were met by n very very pale faced-male from Wales called…. Norling!
22 Feb 2010, 17:23 pm
citings for things like punches should be handled differently. here’s why.
Often in a game, a punch will get thrown and then before the “victim” can react, it will erupt in a mass brawl and he never really gets any “justice”.
So- if you get cited for a punch or a kick and you are found guilty, rather than an immediate ban, your “victim” should get the opportunity to request a bare-knuckle brawl. Last man-standing gets to play the following weekend.
It’s time we separated the men from the boys. This isn’t tiddlywinks.
22 Feb 2010, 17:51 pm
@Partizan: Almoust all of them go to church together on Sundays.
22 Feb 2010, 18:45 pm
@Transformation:
shame you see colour i see great rugby players
22 Feb 2010, 18:49 pm
I wonder who will win palaying one game 80 rules, and one todays rules
15 Johann Heunis NTVL Kirshner BB
14 Ray Mordt, TVL Peterson shrks
13 Willie Du Plessis WP Jaques PROV
12 Colin Beck WP Wynand BB
11 Gerrie Germishuys, OVS Habana PROV
10 Naas Botha, NTVL Morne BB
9 Divan Serfontein WP Fourie BB
8 Wynand Claasen Natal Pierre BB
7 Schalk Burger WP Juan chts
6 Rob Louw WP Skalk PROV
5 Hennie Bekker, WP Vic BB
4 Louis Moolman, NTVL Bakkies BB
3 Ockie Oosthuizen, TVL Beast Shrks
2 Willie Kahts, NTVL Bissie Shrks
1 Hempies Du Toit, WP Smit Shrks
22 Feb 2010, 18:51 pm
sorry palaying = playing had a quick shut eye before dinner not completely my self yet
22 Feb 2010, 19:13 pm
Matfield cleared – justice has been done
22 Feb 2010, 22:06 pm
@Black Panther: @53 You conveniently forget the mischief that Thorn was up to before Smit came in.
That tackle during play would have been a dangerous tackle and worth a red- that he only got a week for play after the whistle means that he got away with assault – and there WAS harm done- the bok captain out for the WHOLE season. VERY different circumstances.
TOSSER.
And if you see your team mate with an opponents elbow on his throat, of COURSE you get involved – that is what team mates do – you suggesting that he should have left him like that is downright laughable.
22 Feb 2010, 22:07 pm
Oh, and the other charge smakcs of the B& I tour when teams who have no answer for good rugby resort to “the law” to find a chink in their armor. VERY unsporting I think.
22 Feb 2010, 22:58 pm
havent seen the incident, but thank goodness he got off..
My “justice4 Rocky” armband hasnt arrived yet
22 Feb 2010, 23:06 pm
@SjamBok:
Smit got no less than he deserved, his large buttcheeks launched moonside
Victor got away with, as you say, ‘assault’.
learn to quit when youre ahrad.
22 Feb 2010, 23:09 pm
The usual anti SA brigade out in force…… doos’s!
22 Feb 2010, 23:11 pm
@Black Panther: Thorn got what he deserved in Hamilton, the aussie league fossil crumpled like a used dishcloth
22 Feb 2010, 23:14 pm
@Big Hit:
Yeah, good clean payback!
23 Feb 2010, 00:20 am
@whatever: funny that, still awaiting you taking Stormer in a teacup to task over his unsavoury comments on the R.McCaw thread..
oh hang on, hes SA, its different, then its funny…
your double standards are laughable
23 Feb 2010, 00:25 am
@poppa69:
Whoa mate, have not seen what Stormer in a teacup has said, so don’t label me there boet………. and I did not mention any names….. you feeling a tad guilty?
What did Stormer say?
23 Feb 2010, 00:29 am
@whatever: no guilt here
something about sleeping with your dinner before eating it.. pretty tasteless and crass really… he generalised
its not like I couldnt come back at him, the mere mention of the word mortuary you’d think would stop the sheep jokes, but hey, different strokes for different folks..
23 Feb 2010, 00:48 am
@poppa69:
hehe, yeah, for me I’m tired of the continuous one upmanship here on Keo. Both countires have players that are dirty, both have players that abuse women and booze, both countries have shite ref’s etc. If we accept that and not geta “bonner” when one or the other country stuffs up. I’m cool
23 Feb 2010, 00:49 am
and………..if we don’t generalise, then even better
23 Feb 2010, 01:17 am
@whatever: it does get tiresome doesnt it.. and agree, both have their good and bad… theres only so many times you can rehash the same old tired lines (or banter haha)…
Not sure the Bulls would have missed Matfield anyways, they are playing some great footy at the moment..
23 Feb 2010, 01:37 am
Black Panther seems to be kaking his panties. He sees how easily the Bulls are putting 50+ past teams.
If it were up to him he’d want every Bulls player cited.
Chiefs defense is looking real nice and solid, getting 65 points put on them by the Lions, hey guys? Lets just indulge in the thought of what the Bulls will do to them if they don’t clean up their act.
It wont be 60 this time, It’ll be 90.
23 Feb 2010, 02:21 am
@Kobus Kitty:
Shame you seem to forget that the lowly cheetahs managed to get 34 points against the Bulls and might i add the Cheetahs were the wooden spooners last year.
Cheetahs have just about scored 18% of there overall points scored last year in this one game.
23 Feb 2010, 02:32 am
Now where is that ignoramus Skopskiet (does that mean bullsheet in Afrikaans) and his Matfield and karma bollocks?
23 Feb 2010, 02:49 am
Hometown judiciary. Crooked as a dogs hind leg. Bulls wil win the thing though.
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