\n Brisbane Lions premiership Co-Captain Lachie Neale is progressing as planned to be ready to play in week one of the AFL finals.\n <\/p>\n
Brisbane Lions premiership Co-Captain Lachie Neale<\/a> is progressing as planned to be ready to play in week one of the AFL finals.<\/p>\n The midfielder, who has missed missed the last two matches with a quad strain, is training well and tracking as expected.<\/p>\n The 32-year-old will sit out of Sunday night\u2019s clash with Hawthorn and then have the bye week before finals to fully recover.<\/p>\n Young midfielder James Tunstill<\/a> has however been given the green light to play this weekend after coming out of concussion protocols a fortnight ago, as has exciting forward Kai Lohmann<\/a> after overcoming a calf strain.<\/p>\n Tunstill and Lohmann are both chances to come into coach Chris Fagan\u2019s 23-man team to face the Hawks.<\/p>\n The Lions also provided the following update yesterday:<\/p>\n Forward Eric Hipwood<\/a> will miss Sunday\u2019s Round 24 clash with Hawthorn due to injury, though midfielder Jarrod Berry<\/a> is still a chance to play.<\/p>\n Berry, who dislocated his shoulder in Friday\u2019s win against Fremantle, received positive news after he underwent scans on Monday which cleared him of any serious injury.<\/p>\n The Club will now decide whether to play Berry on Sunday or give him the next two weeks to recover for the first final.<\/p>\n Hipwood also underwent scans, after sustaining a calf injury during Friday\u2019s win over the Dockers, which showed a calf tear likely to sideline him for three to four weeks.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n Shoulder<\/p>\n Test<\/p>\n Hamstring<\/p>\n 1 Week<\/p>\n Quad<\/p>\n 1 Week<\/p>\n Calf<\/p>\n 3-4 Weeks<\/p>\n Quad<\/p>\n 6-7 Weeks<\/p>\n Achilles<\/p>\n Season<\/p>\n Knee<\/p>\n Season<\/p>\n Knee<\/p>\n Season<\/p>\n \n Injury: Shoulder\n <\/p>\n \n Est. Return: Test\n <\/p>\n \n Injury: Hamstring\n <\/p>\n \n Est. Return: 1 Week\n <\/p>\n \n Injury: Quad\n <\/p>\n \n Est. Return: 1 Week\n <\/p>\n \n Injury: Calf\n <\/p>\n \n Est. Return: 3-4 Weeks\n <\/p>\n \n Injury: Quad\n <\/p>\n \n Est. Return: 6-7 Weeks\n <\/p>\n \n Injury: Achilles\n <\/p>\n \n Est. Return: Season\n <\/p>\n \n Injury: Knee\n <\/p>\n \n Est. Return: Season\n <\/p>\n \n Injury: Knee\n <\/p>\n \n Est. Return: Season\n <\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Brisbane Lions premiership Co-Captain Lachie Neale is progressing as planned to be ready to play in week one…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":80219,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,83,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-80218","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-text","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80218","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80218"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80218\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/80219"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}