Evans: Career in doubt

Glasgow coach Sean Lineen has raised doubts over whether Scotland wing Thom Evans will be able to resume his rugby career.

The Warriors star insists he will return to playing at some point next season, despite sustaining a severe neck damage during February's Six Nations game in Wales.

The injury required two operations and casts serious doubt on the 25-year-old's career, despite his claims that it is only "a question of when" he would return.

But Lineen hinted that may not be the case when he listed the players he expects to lose at the end of the current season.

He said in Scotland on Sunday: "Tim Barker is going back to Ulster, Dan Parks [to Cardiff], Mark McMillan [to Bath] is a loss, Kelly Brown [to Saracens], Dan Turner - who is going to Japan - and probably Thom Evans."

Max Evans revealed back in February that his brother was "a millimetre" from death or paralysis following a sickening collision with Wales full-back Lee Byrne at the Millennium Stadium.

Max also expressed his preference that his brother hang up his boots.