SIR – After reading Tom Guest’s piece regarding Andy Goode’s forthcoming move to Wasps (Worcester News, March 11) it saddens me to now say I think Warriors will be favorites for relegation next season.

Why do I think this? It seems to me that London Welsh will go down this season as I think it unlikely that their points deduction will be overturned and they will find it difficult to catch Sale or London Irish.

I think Sale and London Irish will be much improved next season and Newcastle under Dean Richards will be no pushover. That leaves Worcester.

I would also question the present coaching set-up at Warriors.

Looking at the official squad for the 2011/12 season the following will have left by the end of this season – Mullen, Fortey, Taumuepeau, Rawlinson, Kitchener, Kvesic, Horstmann, Sanderson, Goode, Benjamin, Rasmussen, Crockett, Garvey, Claassens.

Throw in a scrum-half and the likes of Douglas, Tomaszczyk, Balding, Cowan, Arscott, Carlisle, etc, and you have a reasonable squad.

While I realise that some have left through injury and retirement, this represents a massive turnover of players which cannot be good for stability within the club.

This sort of turnover does not happen at clubs such as Leicester, Quins, Saracens, etc, and it must also be a major worry that Warriors seem unable to keep their best home-grown players as other clubs pick off our best talent.

Is this because they don’t have confidence in the present coaching set-up?

My final observation would be to ask if the players who have come in are an improvement on those who have left and I come to the conclusion that with the possible exception of Euan Murray the answer is a resounding no.

Perhaps with all these departures happening during Richard Hill’s stewardship his position will now come under scrutiny.

C J ARCHER

Droitwich