{"id":155800,"date":"2025-09-23T16:31:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-23T16:31:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/155800\/"},"modified":"2025-09-23T16:31:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-23T16:31:07","slug":"bernard-van-der-linde-bath-scrum-half-out-until-early-2026-after-surgery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/155800\/","title":{"rendered":"Bernard van der Linde: Bath scrum-half out until early 2026 after surgery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Bath scrum-half Bernard van der Linde is expected to out until the start of 2026 because of a hamstring injury.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 24-year-old <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/rugby-union\/articles\/c5yekn76353o\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">moved to the club this summer from South African side Bulls<\/a> and sustained the injury during a pre-season friendly against Worcester on Friday and has since had surgery.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Number eight Jaco Coetzee is also set to undergo &#8220;further tests&#8221; on an injury to his knee in she same match against the Warriors, having only just returned from a torn anterior cruciate ligament injury that kept him out since April.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Fly-half Ciaran Donoghue has had surgery on a knee injury during the friendly against Munster on 12 September, with no timeframe yet on how long he is due to be on the sidelines. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bath scrum-half Bernard van der Linde is expected to out until the start of 2026 because of a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":155801,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[5903,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-155800","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-rugby","8":"tag-rugby","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155800","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=155800"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155800\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/155801"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=155800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=155800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=155800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}