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Director of Rugby John Brain has challenged his Warriors to make it a hat-trick of Guinness Premiership victories after naming the same side that defeated Sale Sharks for the visit of Newcastle Falcons on Friday (8pm kick-off).

Scrum half Matt Powell will again lead Warriors in place of the injured Pat Sanderson who is ruled out after having surgery on his broken hand. The England international should be fit to return for the trip to Bristol.
Another player who is unavailable is prop Chris Horsman who has been named in an unchanged Wales team for the weekend Six Nations clash with England.

Worcester Warriors team to face Newcastle Falcons:
01 Tony Windo, 02 Chris Fortey, 03 Tevita Taumoepeau, 04 Craig Gillies, 05 Phil Murphy, 06 Drew Hickey, 07 Tom Harding, 08 Kai Horstmann, 09 Matt Powell (c), 10 James Brown, 11 Thinus Delport, 12 Mark Tucker, 13 Dale Rasmussen, 14 Aisea Havili, 15 Shane Drahm

Replacements: 16 Darren Morris, 17 Aleki Lutui, 18 Richard Blaze, 19 Gavin Quinnell, 20 Nick Runciman, 21 Dominic Feaunati, 22 Lee Best

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Coral.co.uk have priced Worcester Warriors at 4 to 6 favourites to beat Newcastle Falcons following back to back wins in the Guinness Premiership over Bath and Sale. The Warriors will attempt to equal their best ever winning sequence in the Guinness Premiership - set in February 2005. The Falcons who beat Saracens at Kingston Park last week are priced at 6 to 5 to win. The two sides have met on five previous occasions in the Guinness Premiership with Falcons having the slight edge by three wins to two.

Worcester 4 to 6 favourites

Newcastle 6 to 5

Draw 18 to 1

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Premiership Rugby today announced an extension of their partnership with the UK's largest insurance company, Aviva, for a further three years. The contract extension, which starts in the 2014-15 season, will cover a golden era for club rugby in England and will include a period when the country will host a Rugby World Cup and when rugby union will finally rejoin the Olympic movement.

Not only are the great and the good of the Aviva Premiership Rugby strutting their stuff at Twickenham this Saturday - so are the new generation of rugby players, including Worcester RFC, courtesy of the Land Rover Premiership Rugby Cup.