Botha back next week for Bulls
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Bulls loose forward Arno Botha will return to training next week after recovering well from a pectoral muscle tear.
However, flyhalf Jacques-Louis Potgieter could be on the side-lines for another week.
According to Bulls team doctor Org Strauss, Botha will train on Monday and Potgieter, who picked up a hamstring injury last week, will be assessed then.
Potgieter was a late withdrawal from the Bulls team that won against the Sharks on the weekend and could be out of action for two weeks.No one picked up any injuries in that win, although Francois Hougaard, Deon Stegmann and Pieter Labuschagne will only train on Tuesday, due to light niggles.
Duncan Matthews was less fortunate though. The outside back tore his ACL playing for UP-Tuks in the Varsity Cup on Monday and will be side-lined till at least September.
He joins Flip van der Merwe (pectoral, April), William Small-Smith (foot, two months), Pierre Schoeman (ACL knee, July), Bandise Maku (pectoral, August), Werner Kruger (ankle, 10 weeks), Carlo Engelbrecht (ankle, 10 weeks) and Burger Odendaal (knee, three weeks) on the injury list.
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