British and Irish lions: Caelan Doris injury could be “serious”, says Leinster boss

Leinster head coach Jacques Nienaber fears that Caelan Doris has suffered a “serious” shoulder injury, who have thrown his chances of doing British & Irish Lions squad.

The 27 -year -old Doris is a leading candidate alongside England's Maro Itoje to captain the Lions on her Australia tour. But Doris was injured against Northampton in Northampton on Saturday.

Leinster has confirmed that Doris' injury requires surgery and he will be subjected to the procedure on Tuesday or Wednesday. All of this leaves a lot of uncertainty about Doris' fitness and future availability before the announcement of the Lions Squad on Thursday.

“He saw a specialist and I think there are further investigations that have to be carried out,” Nienaber told Doris to the Irish media. “The fingers crossed that things are not as bad as we think, but in the past few months in which I have worked with Caelan, he is not a guy who can get off the pitch with injuries.

“When I got him subjectively from the field on Saturday, I thought in my head: 'It has to be pretty serious.'

“We will probably know more in the back of the week, but my stomach, and it's just a stomach: I think it could be serious, but the fingers may not push it. The fingers crossed and there is not too much structural damage. My official knowledge, a bit boring, but there is no structural damage, maybe four to six weeks.

If there are four weeks, Doris will miss the rest of the season from Leinster, but on June 20 for the first game of the Lions against Argentina. But all complications and structural damage would lead to a longer magic of the sidelines, which would almost exclude him from the tour from the tour.

This would be for both Doris and for the lions as a bitter blow. Doris missed the last Lions tour through concussion and was widely seen as a enriched starter for the tour of this summer.

But this shoulder injury has put his chances in danger and sees Itoje as a clear leader who corresponds to the Lions against the Wallabies Captains against the wallabies.

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