Bulls captain courageous and inspirational leader Victor Matfield has been cited following the Bulls 50-32 demolition of the Brumbies at Loftus.

Matfield is not a dirty player, he is one of the nicest guys around. In fact he’s so thin he could barely cause anyone damage!

Matfield was cited for foul play and charged with striking Brumbies flanker Rocky Elsom in the 17th minute under law 10.4 (a).

Deon Stegmann was in a ruck (and was left with a bleeding nose), and Elsom struck him with his forearm. Matfield came in to clean out Elsom, and unfortunately his forearm made contact with the bottom portion of Elsom’s face which doesn’t look good for Matfield.

I have no doubt Matfield was coming to his teammates defence and was simply trying to clean out at the ruck.

I’m not sure if it is the same incident or another but Matfield was also cited for charging into a ruck without binding onto another player under law 10.4 (k).

The Bulls have embraced the new law interpretations almost better than any other side and I thought their discipline has been fantastic so far. Why do the Bulls (and Springboks) always seem to get cited, suspended and generally subject to a different law compared to others?

Meanwhile thugs like Sione Lauaki get a 1 match ban for dangerous spear tackles? Where is the consistency? The Bulls just want to play rugby!

The hearing will occur on Monday lunchtime at Loftus. Thankfully it shouldn’t disrupt the Bulls preparations for their match against the Waratahs on Saturday.

I am not sure who actually Matfield. The new citing procedure has Freek Burger as the citing commissioner in South Africa, and as I understand it he has the final say on whether to put forward a citing if either side has put forward a citing request. My gut feel is that knowing the Aussies are yellow as they are, they’ve cited Matfield because they can’t stand losing and don’t know how else to compete with the Bulls.

Let’s hope justice and sanity prevails and Matfield can lead the Bulls on Saturday.