Caelan Doris Doubts for Lions Tour by shoulder injury – the Irish time

Caelan Doris' prospects to take part in his first British & Irish Lions Tour are doubtful due to a shoulder injury that he suffered last Saturday in the Aviva Stadium in the Aviva Stadium in Leinsters 37-34 Champions Cup semi-final defeat.

In order to tighten the problems of his and linen in the light of the big setback on Saturday, the weekly medical bulletin of the province confirmed that “Caelan Doris: this week an intervention is carried out over a shoulder injury and a further evaluation afterwards.”

The Leinster captain was withdrawn nine minutes after immersion in the 57th minute of the semi-finals, and the knowledge of his injury could only have contributed to his noticeable feeling of deflation in the press conference after the game. Doris was unable to offer opponents or team team colleagues the right hand to offer full-time pipe.

The extent of the injury will only be determined on Tuesday or Wednesday after further consultations with a specialist according to the procedure mentioned above, and more should be known when Andy Farrell unveiled his lions for the summer tour to Australia on Thursday at lunchtime.

At least it looks like the number eight of the Leinster and Ireland is missing the rest of the Urc campaign from Leinster, and a cloud now hangs on his availability for the Lions tour of this summer, for which he is considered as a likely test starter and one of the leading candidates for the captain of the tourists.

After missing four years ago, it would be an additional cruel stroke for the 51-fold caped Irish Captain if he was excluded from a first Lions tour than he approached the bloom of his career at 27.

Regarding Doris' injury, the senior coach of Leinster, Jacques Nienaber, said: “Since I was here, I don't think he has ever gone in one game, except for an injury. The moment he stood out, we thought that it would be pretty serious. Then he saw a specialist and he has a time this week.

“Hopefully you go inside and, with crossed thumb, there is not too much structural damage. If there is not too much structural damage – it is difficult to say, my physiotic knowledge is a bit stunning – but I would say that something can be between four and eight weeks.

“If there is structural damage, it can be more than what you find between four and six months, so it depends on what you find when you go in and look at it.

“I was more of a hip knee body. My wife loved her shoulders, so she is probably more of an expert. It is difficult to work because it is such an unstable joint if you can express it that way.”

In this light, it is indeed as if Leinster would be without her captain for the Urc-Run-in while he deals with the lions.

“Yes, so I say that my thumb is crossed. Hopefully it is not so bad for him, but you make the assessment and my gut feeling when I replaced it … I had never seen that he broke off an injury, so he is a hard man in my opinion. When he looks out of my intestine, this was not only subjective.

In the meantime, Rob Russell and James Ryan have returned to complete training after they recovered from an injury before the BKT United Rugby Championship game on Saturday with Zebre Parma in Aviva Stadium (KO: 5.15 p.m.).

Jordan Larmour, Connors and Brian Deeny remain indefinitely.