Pertemps
Bees will be without prop Neil Fowkes for the remainder of the season following
Nottingham's decision to recall him from a loan deal.Fowkes arrived on an open-ended arrangement last month to ease Pertemps Bees' front row difficulties following a long-term injury to Canadian international Casey Dunning.
He scored a try against Nottingham at Meadow Lane on January 7 but was subsequently recalled by Nottingham for two EDF Energy National Trophy games and is no longer eligible to return to Pertemps Bees for a third loan spell.
Pertemps Bees are also expecting to lose full-back Jon Goodridge for similar reasons.
Goodridge has spent most of the season on loan at Pertemps Bees from Gloucester though he was recalled to play in an EDF Energy Cup match against Bristol in October and again for Sunday's Guinness Premiership match at Saracens.
Goodridge played the last seven minutes of that game as a replacement flanker as Gloucester had run out of specialist forwards.
Pertemps Bees are checking Goodridge's availability with the RFU but Matt Nuthall will continue at full-back for the National One game against Waterloo at Sharmans Cross Road on Saturday February 24 (2pm).
Nuthall, normally a winger, played at full-back in last Saturday's National Trophy fifth round victory over Nuneaton and will continue in that position for the quarter-final at Newbury on March 3.
Pertemps Bees expect to welcome back hooker Rob Elloway, who is also on loan from Gloucester, for the Waterloo game but former England prop Mark Linnett, who again came out of retirement against Nuneaton, is not available this weekend as he is playing for the England Legends side against their Irish counterparts in Dublin.
Prop Emyr Lewis is expected to return to the front row against Waterloo after a back injury restricted him to a replacement's role against Nuneaton. There is also better news of two more of Pertemps Bees' injured front row forwards.
Dunning, who broke an ankle against Sedgley Park in December, is now off his crutches and is expected to be given the all-clear to resume running again this week. He could be back playing again by the middle of next month.
Hooker Stewart Pearl, who broke a hand against Rotherham three weeks ago, is also due to have the cast removed this week and he could also be in line for a mid-March return to action which would further ease Pertemps Bees front row problems.