{"id":11399,"date":"2012-06-12T23:09:53","date_gmt":"2012-06-12T21:09:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/06\/rugby-oosthuizens-injury-a-big-blow-for-springboks-coach-says\/"},"modified":"2012-06-12T23:09:53","modified_gmt":"2012-06-12T21:09:53","slug":"rugby-oosthuizens-injury-a-big-blow-for-springboks-coach-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/rugby-oosthuizens-injury-a-big-blow-for-springboks-coach-says\/","title":{"rendered":"Rugby-Oosthuizen&#8217;s injury a big blow for Springboks, coach says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"articleLocation\">JOHANNESBURG, June 12<\/span> (Reuters) &#8211; Prop Coenie Oosthuizen&#8217;s<br \/>\ninjury-enforced absence from the rest of the rugby test series<br \/>\nagainst England is a major blow for the Springboks, forwards<br \/>\ncoach Johann van Graan said on Tuesday.<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Oosthuizen has a mildly bulging disc in his neck, according<br \/>\nto team doctor Craig Roberts, and will be out of action for<br \/>\nbetween two and three months.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Coenie is still a young player and has a long career ahead<br \/>\nof him and needs to be managed appropriately,&#8221; Roberts said. &#8220;We<br \/>\nwill follow a conservative approach with him.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The 23-year-old Oosthuizen made his debut off the bench in<br \/>\nthe first test against England in Durban and Van Graan said he<br \/>\nhad made an impact.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He showed in the first test what he can do and his injury<br \/>\nis a big loss for us, especially since he can play both<br \/>\ntighthead and loosehead,&#8221; Van Graan told reporters.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The second test is in Johannesburg on Saturday.\t<\/p>\n<p> (Reporting by Ken Borland; Editing by Clare Fallon)<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright\">\n<p>         \t\t\u00a9 Thomson Reuters 2012 All rights reserved<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>JOHANNESBURG, June 12 (Reuters) &#8211; Prop Coenie Oosthuizen&#8217;s injury-enforced absence from the rest of the rugby test series against England is a major blow for the Springboks, forwards coach Johann van Graan said on Tuesday. Oosthuizen has a mildly bulging disc in his neck, according to team doctor Craig Roberts, and will be out of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[830,2370,183],"class_list":{"0":"post-11399","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-south-africa","7":"tag-news","8":"tag-reuters","9":"tag-south-africa-2","10":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11399","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11399"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11399\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}