Andy Ellis says he is bang on schedule to resume his Worcester City career at the start of next season.

The former Woking midfielder had just begun to find his best form since his summer arrival, when he broke his leg in the New Year game at Tamworth.

But he is delighted with the way his recovery has gone and, although he doesn't expect to play again this season, he hopes to be raring to go in August.

The 32-year-old said of his recovery: "It has been as good as I could have expected. I was told the plaster cast would be on for 10 weeks but I took it off after six after it was X-rayed.

"I now have a lighter cast which I am supposed to wear for walking. Only in the last three or four days have I started going without it, and I have also started doing some static cycling.

"It still aches a bit when I walk on it, and sometimes I will forget it was broken and go downstairs too quickly and it just pinches a bit. But I have never once had a pain which has lasted."

Ellis has started some other general work to help regain fitness but doesn't want to rush back into football-based training.

"I could probably get back for the last two weeks of the season but, at my age, another major injury would probably be it, so I don't want to risk it.

"I probably won't start training in earnest until the middle of May. You never know what is going to happen but I fully intend to be fit, healthy and ready to go. My mind is already fixed on June-July and going back to pre-season training."

Ellis has also returned to his day job as a sports science lecturer at college in Leamington Spa. "I was signed off for six weeks but actually went back after two."

Although frustrated at not being able to play, Ellis is delighted at the way the team has been playing and is confident they will escape trouble.

"It has been a good thing that they have done so well since my injury. We are not safe yet but if we can get some more points by the end of March or beginning of April then I can relax.

"If you look at the sides who are down there, I think the bottom three will go down. It will then be one out of five or six teams, but I can't see it being us the way we are playing."