{"id":399006,"date":"2026-01-30T16:01:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-30T16:01:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/399006\/"},"modified":"2026-01-30T16:01:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-30T16:01:07","slug":"tom-hooper-exeters-australia-flanker-to-miss-up-to-eight-weeks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/399006\/","title":{"rendered":"Tom Hooper: Exeter&#8217;s Australia flanker to miss up to eight weeks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Exeter&#8217;s Australia flanker Tom Hooper will miss between six and eight weeks after straining a knee ligament.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 24-year-old underwent scans after being forced off in the opening stages of Exeter&#8217;s 8-3 loss to Bristol last week.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Chiefs had <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/rugby-union\/articles\/cwyn2gyn8weo\" class=\"ssrcss-eyo3xn-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">feared a significant injury could end the summer signing&#8217;s season.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">But scans show he has strained the medial ligament in his knee and will not require surgery.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The news means he could be fit for the resumption of the Prem Rugby season on 21 March.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">However fellow back-row Kane James will need surgery for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/rugby-union\/articles\/c701rqqy0jwo\" class=\"ssrcss-eyo3xn-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">an ankle injury he suffered in the 31-0 European Challenge Cup win over Cardiff<\/a> earlier this month.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 20-year-old could be out for more than three months, ruling him out for much of the rest of the campaign.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Exeter&#8217;s Australia flanker Tom Hooper will miss between six and eight weeks after straining a knee ligament. The&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":399007,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[5903,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-399006","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-rugby","tag-rugby","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399006","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=399006"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399006\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/399007"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=399006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=399006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=399006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}