MIKE Rud-dock is looking to galvanise Worcester for years to come by creating a team of backroom staff with strong Warriors connections.

The Sixways director of rugby wants to develop Wor-cester's coaching staff into a unit similar to Leciester Tigers at Welford Raod, where the majority of the men behind the scenes have played for the club and have an affinity for the team.

Veteran prop Tony Windo, who was given a player-coach contract earlier this season, is one of the first people to move into the system, but Ruddock hopes more will follow.

The Welshman said: "If you look at all the best clubs over the years, they tend to have a back-room succession in pl-ace.

"You only have to look at the Leicester model with people like Graham Rowntree and Dean Richards joining the coaching staff when they had finished playing.

"That is something I am trying to develop at Worcester so that the coaches are often senior players who have played for the club and one day, they might go on to become a director of rugby.

"It could potentially benefit the long-term future of the Sixways club."

Ruddock wants Windo to develop his role along the lines of what scrum coach Mike Casey, who spent a week working with the Warriors' forwards last autumn, does with Auckland Blues and New Zealand Rugby.

Ruddock added: "We have carved out a role for Tony in a similar way to what Mike Casey does. All the young props - like Shaun Ruwers, Matt Mullan and Callum Black - are benefitting from Tony's new coaching role and they have all tasted Guinness Premiership rugby now.

"He has slotted into the coaching perfectly - he still has ambitions to play and lines up against Harlequins today.

"Shaun is a big guy - he's got the physique, but needs to work on his game and particularly his scrum.

"He needs to continue to develop that as most young props do."