THERE will not be “significant changes” for Worcester Warriors’ trip to Leicester Tigers on Saturday (3pm), according to director of rugby Dean Ryan.

The Warriors chief slammed his players after they slumped to a 54-35 defeat to Wasps, admitting he did not want to be involved in any “end-of-season jamborees”.

However, Ryan insisted he was likely to put out a similar side at Welford Road and said the week off had given them time to refocus their minds.

“There won’t be significant changes,” he said. “We want to finish the season in the right way, so if we make mass changes it is pretty obvious we are going to get disruption.

“We roughly know the core group that has played most of the games, so we have tried to freshen them up and want that group to go on and finish the season.

“There will be changes but they won’t be significant and there won’t be faces outside of that core group coming in.”

Ryan said Warriors had not picked up any new injuries but they would be without centre Wynand Olivier, who is still recovering from a hamstring strain picked up against Exeter Chiefs earlier this month.

Tenth-placed Worcester also face the challenge of leaders Saracens at Sixways a week later and Ryan said he does not want to see a repeat of his side’s “unacceptable” first-half display against Wasps in their remaining two matches.

“We got something wrong in our approach to the game,” he said. “We were too lateral and too interested in playing on a wide-front, so we did not engage with the team either defensively or in attack. When you can see such a change in behaviour in the same game, you know you have got to be able to sort that out and that is what we are challenging in the remaining weeks.

“We can’t go to Leicester and think we can just throw the ball around because we were able to do that against Wasps.

“We need to engage physically and if we do then we have got a platform to show ourselves attacking-wise.

“But to do it without that isn’t going to make us competitive at this level of rugby.”