Alex Davies can’t wait for tomorrow’s home clash with Saracens as he prepares to end his nine-month injury nightmare.

The versatile back has not played since May when he ruptured an anterior cruci - ate ligament in the first leg of London Welsh’s Greene King IPA Championship semi-final at Leeds, so missed their pro - motion-winning victory at Bristol.

Davies knew straightaway that something wasn’t right.

“Tom May passed me the ball, I tried to step and as I’ve gone to push off my right foot my knee just collapsed,” said Davies.

“No-one touched me, I just felt a rip through my knee. I heard it straight away. It was just one of those things; it just looked like I’d tripped.

“They did a few tests and the early indications were that it could be OK, but obvi - ously it wasn’t.

“It really knocked me back when I got told that I’d rup - tured my ACL and I’d be out for six to nine months – it was absolutely heartbreaking. I actually cried.”

Davies, who has amassed 570 points in 72 Exiles appear - ances since joining in 2011 from Plymouth Albion, has played three times for Ross - lyn Park in National League 1 as part of his rehabilitation.

And he makes the bench for tomorrow’s LV= Cup clash against Saracens at Oxford’s Kassam Stadium.

Davies said: “It’s been re - ally frustrating. You sit there week in, week out watching the games and you can’t con - tribute.

“It’s going to be weird doing all the pre-match stuff and even just getting on the team bus to the Kassam Stadium.

“I’m just so excited.”

Welsh make 12 changes, in - cluding one positional, for to - morrow’s game.

In the backs, Elliot Kear starts at full back, Alan Aw - cock replaces Seb Stegmann on the right wing, while team captain Tom May returns at outside centre. Nick Scott is on the left wing.

In the forwards, Nathan Trevett, Koree Britton and Taione Vea form a new look front row, while Ben West and James Down start in the sec - ond row.

TOMORROW’S TEAMS

London Welsh: Kear, Awcock, May (capt), Barkley, Scott, Roberts, R Lewis, Trevett, Britton, Vea, West, Down, Pienaar, Kirwan, Fonua. Reps: Morris, Aholelei, Cooper, Schofield, Thorpe, Davies, Robinson, J Lewis.

Saracens: Fercu, Ellery, Wilkins, Palamo, Perkins, Mordt (capt), Spencer, Culverhouse, Saunders, Alo, O’Neil, Tredrea, Thompson-Stringer, Hankin, de Jager. Reps: Taylor, Adams-Hale, Featherstone, Hamilton, Stockdale, Whiteley, Staff, Malins.