{"id":796430,"date":"2026-10-08T23:26:16","date_gmt":"2026-10-08T23:26:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/796430\/"},"modified":"2026-10-08T23:26:16","modified_gmt":"2026-10-08T23:26:16","slug":"pat-lams-bristol-bears-lose-england-star-after-henry-pollock-incident","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/796430\/","title":{"rendered":"Pat Lam’s Bristol Bears lose England star after Henry Pollock incident"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Published: 8 hours ago | 8 October 2026 11:10 EDT <\/p>\n

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BRISTOL, ENGLAND – OCTOBER 3:Northampton Saints’ Henry Pollock and Bristol Bears’ Benhard Janse van Rensburg during the Gallagher PREM 2026\/2027 match between Bristol Bears and Northampton Saints at Ashton Gate on October 3, 2026 in Bristol, England. (Photo by Bob Bradford – CameraSport via Getty Images) \"Google <\/a> <\/p>\n

Bristol<\/a> Bears boss Pat Lam has suffered another injury setback as his side seek to defend their unbeaten start to the new season with a first-ever win over Saracens<\/a> at the StoneX on Saturday.<\/p>\n

Lam has revealed that England<\/a> star Benhard Janse van Rensburg has been ruled out for the next two weeks after colliding with Henry Pollock\u2019s knee in their win over Northampton<\/a> Saints at Ashton Gate last weekend.<\/p>\n

Van Rensburg, a talisman for the Bears, will also miss the Champions Cup clash with Stormers<\/a> in Cape Town but, along with Ellis Genge, should return for the PREM return against Exeter Chiefs<\/a> on October 24.<\/p>\n

Lam is confident that his side, who haven\u2019t beaten Sarries since winning 16-12 at Ashton Gate in August 2020, have learnt to cope with big-name injuries over the last 12 months.<\/p>\n

\u201cBenhard will probably take the next three weeks off. So he\u2019ll come back from HIA protocols. It was a big knock, so he\u2019ll miss this week, the following week, and should be back for Round 4 of the PREM.<\/p>\n

\u201cI was pleased when they told me he needs to have at least a few weeks off. The last thing I want to do is mess around with any of the players; they\u2019ve got to be completely signed off.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo, no problem. The way I look at it, after last year, thankfully, it\u2019s only a few games. This is compared to the 8, 10, 12 whole-season injuries we\u2019ve had, so this seems pretty easy.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe build the team around clarity on roles, so BV has a role, and he brings that into it. Then the next guy comes in and does the same role and brings it into it.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think if anything, like last year, what we learned was that there can be a drop-off naturally because of experience and the depth that you have in that group.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut we have some good centres there that will step in, and they know the role doesn\u2019t change and what we expect from the centre. They step in and do that.<\/p>\n

\u201cOur game\u2019s not built around BV. Our game\u2019s around BV\u2019s specific role that he needs to do, and he does it brilliantly. We know that 100 per cent, but it\u2019s not built around him,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published: 8 hours ago | 8 October 2026 11:10 EDT mens gallagher-premiership BRISTOL, ENGLAND – OCTOBER 3:Northampton Saints’…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":796431,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[5903,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-796430","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\/796430","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=796430"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/796430\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/796431"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=796430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=796430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=796430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}