DIRECTOR of rugby Gary Gold revealed he would spend further time away from Worcester Warriors this season.

But he insisted the appointment of veteran coach Alan Solomons would ensure there was “very little disruption” at the Aviva Premiership strugglers.

Gold is back in the hot seat at Sixways ahead of Saturday’s league game against Northampton Saints (1pm) after more than a month in South Africa with his family.

But the 50-year-old, who will take over as USA’s head coach next summer, admitted he would be returning to his native country during Warriors’ cup campaigns.

Worcester face a European Challenge Cup double-header with Oyonnax in mid-December before tackling Connacht and Brive in January.

This will be immediately followed by Anglo-Welsh Cup clashes against Exeter and Dragons.

Gold also confirmed he had an arrangement with the club to travel to USA in March to talk at a seminar.

“The agreement was that I was always going to spent time with my family,” Gold said.

“I have got a situation where one of my children is in their final year at school and you know there are issues with my other child.

“That was the deal for me to go back and forward.

“Alan is going to stick around for that very reason so when I do return home and see my family again there is going to be very little disruption and that’s the reason why we have done it.

“There is no conspiracy theory behind it, it’s just the fact that we wanted some form of consistency and continuity and I felt that it was even more important to have that as we didn’t get off to a great start.

“What I didn’t want to do was leave any form of a void when I went away.”

Solomons, who has previously worked at Ulster, Northampton Saints and Edinburgh, stood in as director of rugby when Gold was in South Africa.

And Warriors’ chief said the 67-year-old would remain at the club as a “consultant and coordinator”.

“The history of what has happened here over the last couple of years is that there has been a tremendous amount of change,” Gold said.

“When Dean (Ryan) left someone had to do his job and then when Nick (Johnston) moved on someone had to do his job.

“The disruptive thing is not so much when somebody moves on, it is the void that is left, so that was what I didn’t want to happen.

“I was very happy with the coaching structure, very happy with Carl (Hogg) heading up as a head coach and the other coaches knowing their roles.

“I have brought Alan in almost as a consultant and coordinator.”