JAMES Brown will make his first start for Worcester Warriors in seven weeks when he lines up against Amatori Catania in the European Challenge Cup tomorrow (3pm BST).

The fly-half has been on the sidelines since damaging knee ligaments in the Premiership match at London Irish in early September.

He links up again with Matt Powell in a tried and trusted half-back partnership, while Shane Drahm and Andy Gomarsall drop to the bench for the game at Santa Maria Goretti in Sicily.

Brown and Powell started the season together and the former scored all of Worcester's points against Gloucester on the opening day.

But, since then, Gomarsall has been preferred at scrum-half in the Guinness Premiership and Brown has had to watch as Drahm has re-found his form after a long lay-off.

Mark Tucker and Gary Trueman play in the centre as Thomas Lombard and Ben Hinshelwood are given a breather. Teenage star Uche Oduoza is retained on the wing.

The forwards have an unfamiliar look about them with Tony Windo and Pat Sanderson rested and Chris Horsman suspended following a hearing with RFU chiefs on Tuesday night.

Academy player Richard Blaze is given another run-out in the second row alongside Craig Gillies.

Drew Hickey replaces Sanderson at open-side and also takes over the captaincy for the day. Prop Lee Fortey, who has been out since dislocating his shoulder in a pre-season match with Benetton Treviso, returns to the bench.

Worcester are looking to build on a 36-18 victory over Montpellier in the opening round at Sixways on Saturday.

The Italian side are yet to win a match in this competition. Last year they lost both of their games while on Saturday they went down 62-17 to Irish side Connacht.

If Worcester win the group they will be awarded a home quarter-final and the winner of the competition progresses to the Heineken Cup next season.

Warriors: Le Roux, Oduoza, Tucker, Trueman, Delport, Brown, Powell, Sparks, C Fortey, Taumoepeau, Blaze, Gillies, Vaili, Hickey, Horstmann. Re-placements: L Fortey, MacDonald, Murphy, Tuamoheloa, Gomarsall, Dra-hm, Whatling.

n Leeds Tykes director of rugby Phil Davies is to move sideways in a management reshuffle at Headingley which will see a new head coach brought in to take charge of first team affairs.

Davies has been with Leeds since 1996 and has guided them from Nat-ional League Three to the Premiership, the Heineken Cup and last season's win at Twickenham in the Powergen Cup.

But Leeds are yet to win a game this season at the bottom of the table.