Worcester Warriors director of rugby Gary Gold has had back luck this week with injuries after Matt Cox and Niall Annett suffered knocks in training.
Flanker Cox damaged his bicep and hooker Annett, who has recently overcome a hamstring problem, injured his knee.
Both are expected to miss Warriors’ clash with local rivals Gloucester in the Premiership on Friday night.
“It does seem that (we have picked up more than our fair share of injuries),” Gold told Worcester News.
“We picked up another two in training (yesterday) which were completely innocuous.
“Every club does pick up their injuries, but it is quite frustrating.”
The latest double blow follows on from half-back pairing Jonny Arr and Tom Heathcote suffering concussions in Warriors’ 41-10 defeat to Exeter Chiefs at Sixways last Friday.
“Jonny is seeing a specialist in London and then he will start to go through the return to play protocol,” said Gold.
“But I think he is symptom free at the moment which is good.
“Tom will go through the same process as Jonny, but he is feeling a lot better,” the Warriors boss continued.
“He has had terrible luck, but all you can do is be overly cautious from a concussion point of view.”
Loose forwards Marco Mama (knee) and Dewald Potgieter (knee) are facing the longest periods out.
Tighthead props Nick Schonert (ankle) and Simon Kerrod (adductor), locks Darren Barry (quad) and Will Spencer (ankle), centres Wynand Olivier (hamstring) and Matt Stelling (ankle), scrum half Luke Baldwin (bicep), flankers David Denton (calf and Achilles) and Carl Kirwan (shoulder) and versatile back Ryan Mills (shoulder and hip) are also outvfor Worcester, who have been battling this problem since pre-season.
Gold even admitted some of his injured players had been reduced to tears.
“It is incredibly frustrating when you consider we started the Premiership and we couldn’t pick arguably our top three loose forwards in David, Marco and Dewald,” he said.
“I know there are other clubs with injuries, but we are not yet blessed with strength in depth.
“We have got some young guys who you want to see get blooded through, but unfortunately they are getting thrown into the deep end.
“There is nothing you can do about (injuries) as a coach yet supposedly we are defined by results.
“It is an occupational hazard, so there is no point moaning about it.
“It is just terrible when you see players injured and in tears when they think they might be out for six or seven months.
“It’s devastating for them as it is their livelihood.”
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