WORCESTER have promoted another of their young guns to the first team.

The Gold 'n' Blues have drafted 20-year-old Simon Daws into their side for their Allied Dunbar Premiership Two match with Exeter tomorrow night.

The open side flanker will make his debut because Nathan Carter has been withdrawn from the squad with a shoulder injury.

Daws follows in the footsteps of Brett Scriven as a player promoted from the club's development side straight into the heat of the Worcester's promotion cauldron.

The only other changes are likely to be in the backs where winger Nick Baxter is on the bench after taking a knock in the 35-28 defeat at Coventry and is replaced by Mat Walker.

In the centres Andy Higgins starts after being released by England U21s. He will partner Shaun Woof in midfield as Andy Currier has been ruled out with bruised ribs.

Higgins has been training with the full England squad this week prior to their Six Nations game in Italy.

"We were keen for him to be released because of the injury to Andy Currier," said director of rugby Les Cusworth.

"I made an agreement with the England squad at the start of the week that he could play for us but we are still encouraging him in his international aspirations."

Cusworth added they have already agreed to release Higgins for the FIRA U19s World Cup next month.

Last week's defeat at Coventry means Worcester's promotion aspirations are dangling by the tiniest of threads so they will need all the help they can get against one of their bogey sides.

Worcester have played Exeter five times in the last two seasons in the league and Cheltenham and Gloucester Cup and have lost all but one of them.

Their only victory came in the corresponding league fixture at Sixways last season when they handed out a 40-15 thrashing in October 1998.

Worcester: Tuipulotu, Myler, Higgins, Woof, Walker, Yapp, Fenley; Windo, Richards, Lymna, Raymond, Denhardt, Denham, Daws, Jenner.

Replacements: Collins, Ball, Lloyd, Scriven, Baxter, Harvey, Martens.