{"id":137580,"date":"2025-09-12T11:24:16","date_gmt":"2025-09-12T11:24:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/137580\/"},"modified":"2025-09-12T11:24:16","modified_gmt":"2025-09-12T11:24:16","slug":"louis-rees-zammit-winger-set-to-make-rugby-return-in-prem-rugby-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/137580\/","title":{"rendered":"Louis Rees-Zammit: Winger set to make rugby return in Prem Rugby Cup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Rees-Zammit has not played rugby since a European Challenge Cup match on 13 January 2024, before leaving the sport to pursue a career in American football. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He has been training with the Bristol squad for the past four weeks, including on a team trip to Portugal, after signing a one-year contract.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Yet Lam said getting him back to match fitness remains the biggest challenge before the Prem Rugby opener at home to Leicester on 28 September.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Some of his highlights reels, we&#8217;ve seen evidence of that in the training. We&#8217;ve got a lot of quick boys but that&#8217;s next level quick what he can do,&#8221; Lam said of Rees-Zammit&#8217;s first weeks in the squad. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;But I think the biggest challenge for him at the moment is just getting back to rugby fitness, he hasn&#8217;t trained this way for 18 months. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;He&#8217;ll be the first to admit the first couple of days, the first week, he was seriously blown but he&#8217;s getting better and better.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;By the time we&#8217;ve had that first Premiership game we hope that he&#8217;s fully ready to go.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rees-Zammit has not played rugby since a European Challenge Cup match on 13 January 2024, before leaving the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":137581,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[567],"tags":[64,63,760,85],"class_list":["post-137580","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-rugby","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-rugby","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137580","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=137580"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137580\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/137581"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}