Worcester Warriors have been hampered by a double damage blow.
Warriors can even now be with out Wales fly-half Owen Williams till January.
The three-times-capped Wales stand-off suffered a grade-three hamstring tear and needed to endure surgical procedure after slipping when taking a kick against his old club Gloucester on 2 October.
Head coach Jonathan Thomas says that he’s making “actually good progress” following his operation and is “working laborious” with the Warriors medical group however has confirmed that he won’t be again earlier than the brand new 12 months.
Williams, who was making solely his third look for Worcester, has suffered important accidents up to now.
He needed to pull out of Wales’ defeat against Ireland in Dublin two seasons in the past, the place he was resulting from be one of many bench replacements however suffered a hamstring damage within the warm-up and needed to miss the remainder of the Six Nations.
The 29-year-old was additionally sidelined for nine months whereas at Leicester in 2015.
Full-back Melani Nanai, England internationals Ollie Lawrence and Willi Heinz, Scotland prop Rory Sutherland and hooker Beck Slicing are all again in coaching and in line to function when the Premiership fixtures resume at Newcastle on 27 November, adopted by the house derby with Wasps on 4 December.
However former England winger Chris Ashton continues to stay “unavailable for choice”, having to this point been unused this season following his arrival at Sixways in January.
Thomas has additionally distanced himself from media hypothesis after Warriors have been linked with former Sale boss Steve Diamond in a ‘teaching advisory’ function – and likewise Exeter flanker Sam Skinner.
“I’ve at all times stated it by way of recruitment or something like that, I will not touch upon hypothesis,” stated Thomas. “It would not be truthful on anybody.”
Warriors, with out a sport final weekend, are again in motion on Saturday with a Premiership Cup sport at residence to Bristol.