Leinster’s RG Snyman has been ruled out for the remainder of the season after the province confirmed the second row has ruptured the ACL in his right knee.
The South African double World Cup winner suffered the injury after a crunching tackle by Glasgow Warriors lock Alex Samuel, in Leinster’s 38-17 defeat at Scotstoun earlier this month.
It’s the third time Snyman has suffered an ACL injury in his career, with the 31-year-old now set for an extended period on the sidelines.
The towering second row endured the first of those serious injuries on his debut for Munster in August 2020, before re-injuring it three games into his comeback in October 2021, the second of which took 17 months to come back from. Both previous ACL tears were on his left knee, with the latest injury on his right.
While he made just 20 appearances in four seasons at Munster, Snyman had stayed relatively injury-free since moving to Leinster in the summer of 2024, with 31 appearances for the province across the last season and a half.
The province are carrying a number of knocks into this weekend’s Investec Champions Cup Round of 16 tie with Edinburgh at Aviva Stadium.
Second row James Ryan continues to be an injury doubt as he deals with the calf injury which has sidelined him since Round 4 of the Six Nations, while Garry Ringrose, Tadhg Furlong and Jimmy O’Brien will also be assessed for unspecified injuries, according to Leinster’s latest medical bulletin.