WARRIORS are stepping up their recruitment drive with "three or four" players to hold talks with the club.

Prop Shaun Ruwers was unveiled last week as the first signing of the Mike Ruddock era and chairman Cecil Duckworth has promised more will follow before the new season kicks off.

"We have got three or four others we are talking to in the next couple of weeks," said Duckworth. "It is all looking fairly exciting."

The Sixways supremo has rung the changes since the end of the campaign with Ruddock replacing John Brain as rugby director and Clive Griffiths installed as head coach.

Duckworth and Ruddock have been running the rule over the current crop of players as they look to freshen up a squad that finished 11th in the Guinness Premiership.

Tom Harding and Simon Whatling have joined Thomas Lombard and Miguel Avram-ovic at the Sixways departure gate, while Richard Blaze will join Leicester next season.

With Whatling, Lombard and Avramovic all leaving, Sam Tuitupou not arriving until late autumn and Dale Rasmussen in contention for a place with the Samoan World Cup squad, a centre is considered a top priority.

The loss of Harding and Blaze is counteracted to some extent by the emergence of academy graduates James Collins and Will Bowley but Ruddock is likely to bring in new faces in a number of different positions.

Work on the Sixways site has also started after the amateur club voted unanimously to support the plans at their EGM at the start of this month.

A new car park will be built in the summer and there will also be changes to the road system outside the ground, with a new roundabout on Pershore Lane and an underpass built under Pershore Lane and Smite Lane.

"We are hoping the car park is going to be in place by the beginning of the season," said Duckworth. "It's going to be tight."

The chairman also hopes to have new changing rooms completed but it is remains to be seen whether all the facilities will be complete in time for the big kick-off.

Duckworth plans to increase capacity to 15,000 eventually but there is no timetable yet and it is likely to be around 10,200 next season.

The development of the Esporta Gym and Racquet club on the site is expected to be finished by Christmas 2008.