{"id":446772,"date":"2026-05-26T22:48:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-26T22:48:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/446772\/"},"modified":"2026-05-26T22:48:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-26T22:48:09","slug":"calf-issue-rules-will-jordan-out-for-rest-of-super-rugby-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/446772\/","title":{"rendered":"Calf issue rules Will Jordan out for rest of Super Rugby season"},"content":{"rendered":"

Will Jordan’s Super Rugby Pacific season is over, the Crusaders and All Blacks outside back suffering a recurrence of a calf injury which will rule him out for four to six weeks.<\/p>\n

Jordan did not train for the Crusaders yesterday after his side’s thrilling 36-32 victory over the Chiefs at the weekend which cemented their place in the playoffs.<\/p>\n

The victory, which allowed the Crusaders to keep a perfect three from three record at their new stadium<\/a>, was his comeback match after the calf problem had sidelined him for six weeks.<\/p>\n

And the Crusaders’ worst fears have been confirmed today as a social media post from the franchise confirmed Jordan’s Super Rugby season is over.<\/p>\n

The Crusaders play the Hurricanes in a crunch final-round game in Christchurch on Friday – a win for the defending champions would help in their goal to qualify for a home playoff.<\/p>\n

Should they be successful over the Hurricanes, the No.1-ranked team<\/a> in the competition, and the Blues lose to the Chiefs in Hamilton on Saturday, the Crusaders will finish third and host a playoff match.<\/p>\n

Crusaders head coach Rob Penney is not the only coach disappointed by the setback; All Blacks head coach Dave Rennie will also be keeping tabs on Jordan’s health ahead of the first Test of the year against France in Christchurch on July 4.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Will Jordan’s Super Rugby Pacific season is over, the Crusaders and All Blacks outside back suffering a recurrence…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":446773,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[33339,17909,56380,49155,111,139,69,213],"class_list":["post-446772","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-blues","tag-chiefs","tag-crusaders","tag-hurricanes","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446772","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=446772"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446772\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/446773"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=446772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=446772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=446772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}