Wasps centre Riki Flutey will be assessed by England after he suffered a calf injury in his club's 37-10 defeat to Northampton.
National set-up to assess calf injury
Wasps centre Riki Flutey will be assessed by England after he suffered a calf injury in his club's 37-10 defeat to Northampton on Sunday.
Flutey had to be helped from the field during the first-half and his fitness for the autumn internationals has now been thrown into doubt.
The 30-year-old seemed assured of a place at inside centre in Martin Johnson's England team and Wasps director of rugby Tony Hanks is hoping he will be back in time for the November Tests.
"Riki's pretty sore at the moment. It's an injury to the calf, quite high," Hanks said.
"He'll be assessed by England tonight when he goes into camp with them. Hopefully he won't be out for too long.
Sore
"These things can take a day or two before you learn how bad they are, but he was definitely pretty sore."
The are further injury problems for Wasps and England players as lock Simon Shaw withdrew from the defeat to the Saints with a calf injury and scrum-half Joe Simpson is struggling with a shoulder problem.
Hanks added: "Simon will also be looked at by England tonight. He had a calf strain on Friday. It was innocuous but he wasn't fit to play. Hopefully it's not long-term.
"Joe has a sore shoulder. He's being looked at. It was late in the game but whether or not he could carry on we were going to take him off."
Hanks made no excuses for his side's drab display at Adams Park as Northampton dominated the contest and raced away to a bonus-point victory.
Tactics
The hosts' pack could not contain the catch and drive tactics of their visiting counterparts, and Hanks stated that his side's capitulation was embarrassing.
Hanks said: "There's a sense of embarrassment at having let the supporters and our families down. Our supporters have been great for us in the last few weeks, but that performance wasn't befitting of them.
"It's a mixture of disappointment, frustration and embarrassment. It's a horrible feeling when you come second like that."
Northampton boss Jim Mallinder was delighted with the way his side took advantage of the absence of Shaw to dominate the battle between the forwards.
"That was a very satisfying performance. We've never won down here before so we knew we needed to play well and we certainly did that today," he said.
"We looked at their team sheet and thought we have a really good chance of strangling them up-front.
"Simon was a massive loss to them as he's particularly good at stopping the driving maul. He's got massive experience and is a massive bloke. To see he wasn't playing was a boost."
