Premiership player Adam Ramanauskas will be sidelined for another four to five weeks due to a minor amount of nerve damage caused from the operation he had earlier in the month to remove a lump from his shoulder.Bomber chief executive Peter Jackson said on Channel 7's Talking Footy last night that Ramanauskas is in good spirits and will return to a modified training program in the coming weeks.

As previously reported on BomberLand, Jackson confirmed on Talking Footy that the lump that was removed from Ramanauskas' shoulder was benign. ""Adam had what they call a nerve tumour which was growing in his shoulder, around his nerves and it was fairly aggressive in a sense of the way it was growing. There was never any real fear that it would have been cancer, it was always pretty certain that it would be benign. And the tests have certainly proved that it was.

""But the concern was that if he left it to the end of the year, because it was growing fairly quickly, that it might get uncomfortable firstly and then secondly the operation would be very major and involve nerve damage. As it has turned out, he has had a minor amount of nerve damage in the operation,"" Jackson said.