WORCESTER Rugby Club go gunning for revenge at Sixways tonight against the team which ended their promotion dream last season.

Defeat at Coventry in April left Worcester six points behind pacesetters Rotherham with just two games left of a long campaign.

But Les Cusworth's team are now riding high again in Allied Dunbar Premiership Two and are determined to make Coventry feel the full force of their resurgence tonight (7.30).

"We were gutted after losing at Coventry, we were so disappointed because we knew that as a team, as a squad of players, we were better than them," said captain Bruce Fenley who played in all three of last season's meetings between the clubs.

"But we didn't perform on that day or in that period -- we let down ourselves and everybody else.

"We beat them at Coundon Road in the cup last autumn and also at home on the first day of the season, but the next time we met they had done their homework.

"We played pretty badly so those who were playing last time have remembered that.

"We don't lose many games, so to lose to a Midlands rival like Coventry hurt a little bit, so we'll definitely be up for this one."

Coventry finished seventh last season, but after making a host of summer signings they have scored impressive wins at home to London Welsh and Henley. They also gave Rotherham a scare in a 20-13 defeat, but suffered a surprise reverse at Wakefield last Saturday.

Worcester give a full debut to former Gloucester lock Dave Sims alongside Richard Denhardt, who will be making his second start of the season.

Chris Raymond is out with a rib injury, while fellow second row Steve Lloyd has been fighting a neck problem so is only on the bench.

James Cockle has been selected ahead of Dave Merlin at blind side flanker, while centre Shaun Woof, who signed from Waterloo last week, is on the replacements' bench.

Worcester: Hughes; Walker, Higgins, Connolly, Baxter; Yapp, Fenley; Windo, Richards, Lyman, Sims, Denhardt, Cockle, Carter, Jenner. Replacements: Linnett, Lloyd, Merlin, Ball, Woof, Myler, Harvey.

n Long-term injury victim Simon Devereux is due to play his first game for almost 12 months tomorrow when the Worcester back row forward faces Coventry II at Coundon Road. He broke his leg and dislocated his ankle playing for Gloucester last November.