Springbok assistant coaches Felix Jones and Jerry Flannery are set to join up with the Bulls on a temporary basis.<\/p>\n
The former Munster and Ireland internationals have been part of the South Africa coaching team over the last few years.<\/p>\n
Jones was part of the ticket for both the 2019 and 2023 World Cup wins, and returned to Rassie Erasmus’ coaching team after a spell with England ended last year.<\/p>\n
Flannery joined from Harlequins in 2024 as defence coach.<\/p>\n
The Vodacom Bulls reached the final of the BKT United Rugby Championship in June, losing to Leinster in Dublin.<\/p>\n
Their director of rugby Jake White departed during the summer.<\/p>\n
“Springbok assistant coaches Felix Jones and Jerry Flannery, SA Rugby Mobi-Unit coach Duane Vermeulen, and Head of Athletic Performance Andy Edwards will provide short-term support to the Vodacom Bulls following a request from the franchise for assistance in specific technical areas,” SA Rugby said.<\/p>\n
“The request was approved by SA Rugby and the Springbok management as part of the organisation\u2019s ongoing collaboration with its member unions.<\/p>\n
“The Bok coaches will engage with the Bulls on a limited basis, both remotely and in person where required, in line with SA Rugby\u2019s standard practice of sharing national coaching resources when requested.”<\/p>\n
The Bulls, under new coach Johan Ackermann, are tenth in the URC table.<\/p>\n
Their next fixture with an Irish side is against Munster in round 14 on 28 March.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Springbok assistant coaches Felix Jones and Jerry Flannery are set to join up with the Bulls on a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":214870,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,112],"class_list":["post-214869","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214869","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=214869"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214869\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/214870"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=214869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=214869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=214869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}