SIXTEEN players from last year's squad will be returning to Sixways next season to boost Worcester's challenge for Premiership status.

Props Neil Lyman, Tony Windo and Andy Collins, hookers Andrew Lamerton and Chris Hall, locks Dan Zaltzman and Dave Sims and back row players Dave Fryday, Nathan Carter and Christian Evans will be linking together with a host of new forward signings.

They will be joined by scrum-half Ricky Pellow, fly-half Tony Yapp, centres Scott Barrow, Alistair Murdoch and Greg Meredith and full back Sateki Tuipulotu.

Training resumes on July 2 when the players will meet new coach John Brain and fitness advisor Peter Finch.