Leonard returns to Loftus
Marais will take charge of his first season of Super Rugby with former Springboks loose forward Leonard as his forwards coach with David Manual as the backline coach.
Gary Botha [scrums and breakdown] and Pine Pienaar [defence] will be involved with both the Super Rugby and Currie Cup sides, as well as the junior sides in this capacity.
Tim Dlulane will continue in his role as team manager. The technical team to assist the coaches are John-William Meyer and Divan Strydom, who will also act as kicking coaches. SARU Mobi-Unit member Louis Koen will assist them in this regard when needed.
In another move, Blue Bulls Under-21 coach, Hendré Marnitz, has been promoted to Currie Cup coach for 2016. He will be assisted by Denzil Frans [forwards] and Hayden Groepes [backs and technical]. Nqubeku Zulu will be team manager in the first round of the Currie Cup and Dlulane will take over in the second round. Zulu will then move to the Blue Bulls U21's.
Pote Human takes over from Marnitz at U21 level and will coach the forwards. He will be assisted by former Springbok fullback, Bevin Fortuin, who will coach the backs, with Vainon Willis the new technical analyst.
Former Leopards coach Jaco Pienaar is the new Blue Bulls U19 coach, with former Bulls player Dewey Swartbooi the new backs coach. Hendry Seerane is the team manager and Willis as technical analyst.
Karin Visser will be personal assistant to all the professional teams.
"We are restructuring our operational and logistical departments to make us more streamline and closer to each other," explained BBC's High Performance Manager Xander Janse van Rensburg.
"This will also result in us pulling our amateur arm closer to us, which will strengthen our relationships with our clubs. In order to achieve that, we extended Werner de Beer's responsibilities into a position of coordinator: professional teams, operational, logistics and amateur Rugby."
Janse van Rensburg will, with Marais, focus on the structures around professional rugby.
"This includes all matters like contracting of players and scouting and all things outside 'the four lines'. Nollis will handle all rugby related matters 'inside the four lines'," Janse van Rensburg explained.
"It is fantastic that we could achieve all of this with a strong representation of former players that can carry the Bulls culture into the future. Guys like Nollis, Anton, Gary, David, Tim, Hayden, Nqubeko, Vainon, Denzil and Dewey all came through the structures. Equally pleasing is the fact that we could honour our transformation goals as well, with 50% of our management team black."
The management teams are:
Bulls:
Head coach: Nollis Marais
Forwards: Anton Leonard
Backs: David Manuel
Technical: John-William Meyer and Divan Strydom
Team manager: Tim Dlulane
Baggage master: Elias Bennet
Blue Bulls:
Head coach: Hendré Marnitz
Forwards: Denzil Frans
Back and technical: Hayden Groepes
Team manager Round One: Nqubeku Zulu
Baggage master Round One: Simon Dyidi
Team manager Round Two: Tim Dlulane
Baggage Master Round Two: Elias Bennet
Blue Bulls Under-21:
Head coach and forwards: Pote Human
Backs: Bevin Fortuin
Technical: Vainon Willis
Team manager: Nqubeko Zulu
Baggage master: Simon Dyidi
Blue Bulls Under-19:
Head coach and forwards: Jaco Pienaar
Backs: Dewey Swartbooi
Technical: Vainon Willis
Team manager: Hendy Seerane
Baggage master: Akhona Felani
