{"id":585343,"date":"2026-04-04T16:40:57","date_gmt":"2026-04-04T16:40:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/585343\/"},"modified":"2026-04-04T16:40:57","modified_gmt":"2026-04-04T16:40:57","slug":"lord-suffers-season-ending-knee-injury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/585343\/","title":{"rendered":"Lord suffers season-ending knee injury"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"article__summary\">\n                Port Adelaide forward Ollie Lord has been ruled out for the remainder of 2026.\n            <\/p>\n<p>                                    Ollie Lord sustained an ACL injury during Round 2 of the SANFL yesterday. Image: Matt Sampson.<\/p>\n<p>Port Adelaide forward Ollie Lord has been ruled out for the remainder of 2026 after suffering a season-ending knee injury.<\/p>\n<p>Scans on Saturday confirmed Lord had ruptured the anterior cruciate ligament in his right knee.<\/p>\n<p>The 24-year-old sustained the injury during the first half of the club&#8217;s SANFL game on Good Friday at Noarlunga Oval.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are shattered for Ollie to receive this news,&#8221; head of medical services Tim O\u2019Leary said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Ollie had a really strong pre-season and was working hard to put himself back in contention for AFL selection.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s a tough injury for any player, but we know Ollie will take on his rehab with his characteristic\u00a0positive attitude, and we will all be here to support him along the way.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Lord will see a surgeon in the coming days to undergo a repair.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Port Adelaide forward Ollie Lord has been ruled out for the remainder of 2026. Ollie Lord sustained an&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":585344,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[560],"tags":[638,64,63,55,639,85,83],"class_list":["post-585343","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-afl","tag-afl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-australian-football-league","tag-australianfootballleague","tag-sports","tag-text"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/585343","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=585343"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/585343\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/585344"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=585343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=585343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=585343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}