Exeter boss Rob Baxter says he’s not sure when long-serving former England prop Ben Moon will return to the facet.
Moon, 33, is Exeter’s longest-serving participant, having made his debut in 2008, and is the final remaining member of their 2009-10 promotion squad.
However he has not performed since final April because of a neck harm.
“I would not maintain out hope that he’ll be showing quickly,” Baxter advised BBC Sport.
“It has been a problem for Ben for slightly time frame now, it is not simply been this season.
“He is had durations out and in with it, it is one thing that is been affecting him for a short time and due to what it’s we simply must be very cautious with it.”
Moon – whose debut got here within the previous Nationwide One division – has featured in all six of Exeter’s Premiership ultimate appearances at Twickenham.
He additionally performed within the 2020 European Champions Cup ultimate win over Racing 92, and Exeter’s first main ultimate once they beat Northampton to win the 2014 LV Cup.
Moon received eight England caps within the 2018-19 season however didn’t make the squad for that autumn’s World Cup in Japan.
“He is nonetheless lively across the membership, he is nonetheless right here, he is in coaching, he is persevering with very exhausting together with his rehab and getting all the things else he can proper, however we have simply acquired to be actually cautious round that neck.
“It is in all probability a kind of issues the place it is attending to the stage the place there’s not much more we will do.
“I can not discuss for Ben about his future, however you are not going to see him within the fast future on the pitch.”