{"id":190201,"date":"2025-10-04T20:20:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-04T20:20:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/190201\/"},"modified":"2025-10-04T20:20:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-04T20:20:08","slug":"louis-rees-zammit-added-to-injury-list-as-bristol-turn-to-transfer-market","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/190201\/","title":{"rendered":"Louis Rees-Zammit added to injury list as Bristol turn to transfer market"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Bristol<\/a> boss Pat Lam<\/a> has revealed the Bears are being forced to recruit additional players to deal with an injury crisis that has now claimed Louis Rees-Zammit.<\/p>\n

The winger suffered a toe injury as he joined Joe Jenkins<\/a> (hamstring) and Tom Jordan<\/a> (ribs) in being unable to finish Saturday\u2019s 50-17 Gallagher Prem mauling by Saracens<\/a> at StoneX Stadium.<\/p>\n

Lam hopes Rees-Zammit and Jordan will be short-term absentees only but fears Jenkins is looking at a longer spell on the sidelines.<\/p>\n

It continues an ill-starred start to the season for Bristol, who on the opening weekend lost key backs AJ MacGinty<\/a>, Harry Randall<\/a> and Gabriel Ibitoye<\/a> to injuries that have resulted in surgery.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe recruitment team will be looking around for some extra players and we\u2019ve been doing that in the background,\u201d Lam said.<\/p>\n

Fixture<\/p>\n

Gallagher Premiership<\/p>\n

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Saracens <\/p>\n

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Bristol <\/p>\n

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\u201cBut it\u2019s finding the right players, people in contract, so that\u2019s always a tricky one at this time of the year, but we are searching everywhere.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere are players who are dead keen but then getting released is the other side of it, so that\u2019s the challenge our recruitment team has to work through.\u201d<\/p>\n

Bristol leaked seven tries and were never in contention from the moment Theo Dan<\/a> started the rout after 135 seconds, although scrum-half Kieran Marmion<\/a> at least ran in a hat-trick.<\/p>\n

\u201cAfter four minutes we\u2019d given away three penalties and Saracens rode off the back of that and dominated the collisions. Before we knew it, we had conceded three or four tries,\u201d Lam said.<\/p>\n

\u201cI loved the fight when the boys were trying to get that bonus point we thought we had at the end, which would have been great to come away with.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut it\u2019s not a great day. We\u2019re not proud of what we did. We came out with no points, and that happens.\u201d<\/p>\n

Saracens delivered another bonus-point victory that lifts them to the top of the table after two rounds despite the absence of British and Irish Lions Maro Itoje<\/a>, Elliot Daly<\/a>, Ben Earl<\/a> and Jamie George<\/a>, among others.<\/p>\n

At the heart of a statement performance in north London was number eight Tom Willis<\/a>, who was colossal on both sides of the ball.<\/p>\n

\u201cTom was always very clear on what he needed to improve in his game,\u201d Saracens boss Mark McCall said.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe was always a great carrier but now he\u2019s coming up with big moments in matches. The opposition will be attacking and suddenly he will appear with the ball. His defensive work has really come on over the past 12-18 months.<\/p>\n

\u201cBecoming the England<\/a> number eight and some of the chats he has had with Steve Borthwick<\/a> have given him added confidence.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bristol boss Pat Lam has revealed the Bears are being forced to recruit additional players to deal with…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":190202,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[567],"tags":[64,63,760,85],"class_list":["post-190201","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\/190201","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=190201"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190201\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/190202"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=190201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=190201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=190201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}