{"id":434645,"date":"2026-01-24T14:51:11","date_gmt":"2026-01-24T14:51:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/434645\/"},"modified":"2026-01-24T14:51:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-24T14:51:11","slug":"bulls-suffer-double-blow-following-edinburgh-heroics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/434645\/","title":{"rendered":"Bulls suffer double blow following Edinburgh heroics"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/p>\n<p>INJURY UPDATE: The Bulls will be without two of their most in-form players for their Jukskei derby clash against the Lions at Ellis Park this coming weekend.<\/p>\n<p>  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/like-loading.gif\" class=\"loading-game\"\/>  <\/p>\n<p>Bulls head coach Johan Ackermann confirmed that outside backs Sebastian de Klerk and Cheswill Jooste will be unavailable for the clash against the Lions after suffering concussions in their 19-17 comeback win over Edinburgh.<\/p>\n<p>The result saw the Bulls go back-to-back away from home, with the victory against the Scottish outfit temporarily pushing them into ninth place on the United Rugby Championship table with matches still to be played on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>*To read the full match report, <a href=\"https:\/\/rugby365.com\/tournaments\/united-rugby-championship\/bulls-second-half-surge-stuns-edinburgh\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">CLICK HERE!<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The article continues below\u2026  <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/thumb-spacer.png\" alt=\"Video Spacer\" width=\"100%\" style=\"margin:-8px 0\"\/>    <\/p>\n<p>\u201cUnfortunately, they [Jooste and De Klerk] both suffered head knocks,\u201d Ackermann said in an online media interview on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey\u2019re both looking fine this morning [Saturday], being up and about and in good spirits with us.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut obviously they\u2019ll have to do the mandatory [12-day] return to play protocol for [failed] head injury assessments.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBoth of them will probably be unavailable for next week, being a 12-day compulsory time, they have to be out.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The good news for Ackermann is the timely return of Springbok wing Kurt-Lee Arendse, who donned the light blue jumper for the first time this season in their Champions Cup win over Pau last weekend.<\/p>\n<p>The Bulls mentor can also call upon Devon Williams and youngster Katlego Letebele to fill the void following De Klerk and Jooste\u2019s injuries.<\/p>\n<p>  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/like-loading.gif\" class=\"loading-game\"\/>  <\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"INJURY UPDATE: The Bulls will be without two of their most in-form players for their Jukskei derby clash&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":434646,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[567],"tags":[64,63,760,85],"class_list":["post-434645","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\/434645","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=434645"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434645\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/434646"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=434645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=434645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=434645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}