{"id":789304,"date":"2026-10-02T05:10:15","date_gmt":"2026-10-02T05:10:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/789304\/"},"modified":"2026-10-02T05:10:15","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T05:10:15","slug":"bristol-bears-suffer-ellis-genge-blow-ahead-of-visit-of-prem-big-dogs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/789304\/","title":{"rendered":"Bristol Bears suffer Ellis Genge blow ahead of visit of PREM big dogs"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Published: 14 hours ago | 1 October 2026 11:03 EDT
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SANTIAGO DEL ESTERO, ARGENTINA – JULY 18: Ellis Genge of England looks on following his team’s victory in the 2026 Nations Championship match between Argentina and England at Estadio Unico Madre de Ciudades on July 18, 2026 in Santiago del Estero, Argentina. (Photo by Nations Championship\/Getty Images) \"Google <\/a> <\/p>\n

Bristol<\/a> Bears have suffered a major blow ahead of Saturday evening\u2019s visit from Gallagher PREM champions Northampton<\/a> Saints, as England<\/a> and Lions<\/a> loosehead Ellis Genge will miss the game with a wrist injury.<\/p>\n

Genge sustained the injury in the opening minute of the 34-24 win over Sale Sharks<\/a> in the season opener and played on for more than an hour before asking to be taken off.<\/p>\n

Bears boss Pat Lam believes Genge, who was playing his first game of the season after an extended rest following international duty in the summer, will be out for only two to three weeks at most.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou would have seen in the very first tackle of the game when we kicked the ball down, and we had an unbelievable chase from our front five, which was Genji, Pedro (Rubiolo), (George) Kloska, Gab Oghre, all flying up.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd Genji made the tackle. I think it might have been Joe Carpenter. And he just caught his wrist in an awkward place, and you would have seen him hold his hand. So he sprained his wrist in that.<\/p>\n

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\u201cSo he won\u2019t be available this week, and as the game went on, he was having trouble getting a grip scrummaging. So he actually said he signalled he\u2019d better come off in that second half.<\/p>\n

\u201cAt this stage, it\u2019s a sprained wrist, so hopefully it\u2019ll only keep him out for two or three weeks at the most. We all know how tough he is. Obviously, like every player, they get frustrated with injuries, but there\u2019s nothing you can do about it.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe was in great form and trained really well since he came back, and he was very ready to go, and he was a big part of that picture last week, but like any player, just frustrated, but once you accept it, which he did early in the week, and got the scan back, he\u2019s just cracked on.<\/p>\n

\u201cI saw him out running, and, and, because it\u2019s not for a long time, he will be prepared for when he comes back again,\u201d said Lam on his weekly media call.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published: 14 hours ago | 1 October 2026 11:03 EDT Updated: 14 hours ago | 1 October 2026…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":789305,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[5903,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-789304","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\/789304","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=789304"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/789304\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/789305"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=789304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=789304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=789304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}