WESTS coach Rick Stone is hopeful he will have to wait only one more week before former NRL veterans Luke Walsh and Will Smith are reunited in his halves.

Walsh has been sidelined with a hamstring injury since the Rosellas beat Wyong on May 5, and Stone said the ex-Knights and Penrith playmaker was unlikely to be fit for Sunday's round-six clash with Macquarie at Peacock Field.