{"id":515576,"date":"2026-04-06T09:16:15","date_gmt":"2026-04-06T09:16:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/515576\/"},"modified":"2026-04-06T09:16:15","modified_gmt":"2026-04-06T09:16:15","slug":"injury-update-viliame-mata-bristol-bears-rugby","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/515576\/","title":{"rendered":"Injury update: Viliame Mata &#8211; Bristol Bears Rugby"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Viliame Mata will miss the remainder of the 2025\/26 season after suffering an ACL injury against Leicester Tigers.<\/p>\n<p>The Fijian number eight sustained the injury during the Gallagher PREM round 11 clash at Mattioli Woods Welford Road and is scheduled to return next season.<\/p>\n<p>Director of Rugby, Pat Lam, said: \u201cLosing a player of Bill\u2019s quality and experience for the remainder of the season, especially alongside injuries to other frontline forwards Pedro Rubiolo and Joe Batley in our pack, is a tough blow and reflects the kind of season we have had with injuries to date.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWith all of the injuries, it just creates opportunity for other players to step up and perform for the team.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Viliame Mata will miss the remainder of the 2025\/26 season after suffering an ACL injury against Leicester Tigers.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":515577,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[40189,5903,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-515576","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-rugby","8":"tag-bristol-bears","9":"tag-rugby","10":"tag-sports","11":"tag-uk","12":"tag-united-kingdom","13":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/515576","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=515576"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/515576\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/515577"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=515576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=515576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=515576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}