"I'd just come back from a niggly shoulder injury, came on, it was feeling good, and 70 minutes in the game I re-hurt it, " he said.
In his second start back from a season-ending shoulder injury, Danks lasted just four innings and allowed four runs and five hits.
But he admitted the blow was even more damaging as he was only nine games back from a six-month lay-off following shoulder surgery.
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Scrum-half Jamie Nutbrown could also be back from injury, but Shane Williams is out with a shoulder problem.
Cage, his face screwed up with rage, one shoulder hitched higher than the other from a back injury, looks like Quasimodo without a bell rope to hang on to.
Bristol, who had scrum-half Shaun Perry back in the squad for the first time this season after recovering from shoulder surgery, responded through their forwards, number eight Ward-Smith scoring from close range after a trademark drive from the pack.
Second-row Luke Charteris (shoulder) and utility back Ceri Sweeney (groin) could return from injury for the Gwent side, along with ex-Wales wing Gareth Wyatt (shoulder).
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Johan Santana, for instance, missed all of 2011 recovering from shoulder surgery and a third of last year due to ankle and back problems, and so he's only pitched 324 innings over the last three years.
Casey insisted he was back to full fitness after withdrawing from the defence of his Houston Open title last week after hurting his shoulder and neck in practice.
Thrown from his truck, Hurley broke his ribs and shoulder, sustained a compressions fracture of his lower back, tore a tendon his right knee and his lung collapsed.
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