{"id":368016,"date":"2026-03-27T12:34:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-27T12:34:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/368016\/"},"modified":"2026-03-27T12:34:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-27T12:34:10","slug":"suspected-acl-injury-set-to-end-rg-snymans-season-in-huge-blow-for-leinster-and-south-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/368016\/","title":{"rendered":"Suspected ACL injury set to end RG Snyman\u2019s season in huge blow for Leinster and South Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"RG Snyman during a Leinster Rugby squad training session at Thornfields in UCD, Belfield, Dublin. Photo: Piaras \u00d3 M\u00eddheach\/Sportsfile\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/69a0b832-1ac7-47b7-bb45-b3b48b909a04.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">RG Snyman during a Leinster Rugby squad training session at Thornfields in UCD, Belfield, Dublin. Photo: Piaras \u00d3 M\u00eddheach\/Sportsfile<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">RG Snyman looks set for another long spell on the sidelines as fears grow that he has suffered another Anterior Cruciate Ligament (ACL) injury.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">The South African lock is not expected to play for Leinster again this season after damaging his right knee in his side\u2019s defeat to Glasgow Warriors last weekend, while his involvement in the Springboks\u2019 Nations Championship and \u2018Greatest Rivalry\u2019 tour matches in New Zealand appears to be in major doubt.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"RG Snyman during a Leinster Rugby squad training session at Thornfields in UCD, Belfield, Dublin. Photo: Piaras \u00d3&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":368017,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,11287,28577,43,16766,40,38,41,39],"class_list":{"0":"post-368016","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-leinster-rugby","10":"tag-leo-cullen","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-ruaidhri-oconnor","13":"tag-top-news","14":"tag-top-stories","15":"tag-topnews","16":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368016","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=368016"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368016\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/368017"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=368016"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=368016"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=368016"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}