Odendaal boost for Bulls
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Bulls midfielder Burger Odendaal will return to training on Tuesday after a successful rehabilitation phase on a meniscal knee injury which saw him miss the opening part of the Super Rugby season.
Odendaal was a stalwart in the Blue Bulls Currie Cup team last season, playing most of his rugby in the No.12 jersey before getting injured in the latter stages of the competition.
A number of Odendaal's teammates were missing from training on Monday, as Jan Serfontein (stiff hip flexor), Marcel van der Merwe (contusion) and Dean Greyling (neck) only return to the training field on Tuesday and Roelof Smit (ankle) and Pieter Labuschagne (nasal fracture) only on Thursday.
Amongst the longer term injuries, Jacques-Louis Potgieter (one week, hamstring), Flip van der Merwe (pectoral, April 6) and Akona Ndungane (hand, three weeks) are a week closer to returning to the fold.
William Small-Smith (foot, 5-7 weeks), Pierre Schoeman (knee, July 15), Bandise Maku (pectoral, July 31), Carlo Engelbrecht (ankle, 7 weeks), Werner Kruger (ankle, 7 weeks) and Duncan Matthews (knee, August 31) remain on the long term injury list.
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