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Murphy gives update on May's shoulder injury
By Online Editors
Jonny May may be back to action sooner than expected after a remarkable recovery.
The England winger picked up a worrying-looking injury in Leicester Tigers' derby day victory over midland-rivals Northampton Saints.
Tigers claimed a 23-15 victory at Twickenham, but May left the field after just nine minutes of game time.
A forlorn-looking May left the field clutching his right arm, and underwent a scan shortly after the game and it revealed that there had been no break.
Now Tigers interim head coach Geordan Murphy has given a very upbeat assessment of the injury.
"Jonny has a bang on his AC joint which is pretty painful, but there's no structural damage," he said.
"We're hopeful he could be available for the weekend. It's certainly not a long-term injury."
The Tigers face Ulster in their Champions Cup opener at Kingspan Stadium on Saturday.
It's also welcome news for England head coach Eddie Jones, who will have May at the forefront of his mind as he tries to down the Springboks, New Zealand, Japan and Australia this November.
A natural finisher, May has scored nine tries in 27 games for his country. For former club Gloucester, May scored 62 tries in 138 games, including 41 in 91 Premiership Rugby appearances and five in the European Champions Cup.
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Thats exactly the criticism Ed, that it has already been done for generations. A strong SA, in many respects, should certainly help African rugby develop. You'd have to think they'd acclimatize much better being drawn to a pro SA club than say a European. Hopefully the fact theyve gone private (is that right Graham?) should enable this sort of change.
Go to commentsPerofeta came back and was available for the eoyt right? Or was that why Love was in the squad (but got injured in the last week)?
It was such a frustrating year. Perofeta looked a service stop gap until Jordan was fit, but then got injured. Plummer was selected because of Pero's injury and dmac shat the bed in the second half in Australia but Clarke (?) got himself binned at the 65 min mark so Plummer couldn't come on (at least with the risk adverse Razors thinking) when he was planned to.
So many other exciting opportunities that could have happened without injuries, but then theyre probably balanced by knowing Sititi probably wouldn't have been given a chance without multiple injuries happened.
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