"We hope to have him back next week with a view to him being ready for the Easter games next weekend.
"We will be missing Gareth as well for the Sheffield game. He has been scanned and there are signs of a strain.
"Hopefully he won't be out too long. He will be scanned again next week and we will have more idea then."
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