DIRECTOR of rugby Dean Ryan felt his forward pack’s experience shone through in Warriors’ 38-15 victory against London Scottish in the Championship play-off semi-final second leg.

“We know we are there now and we’ve got a job to do in trying to get this club back into the Premiership,” said Ryan.

“We were much more robust and strong upfront.

“With the selection there was a bit more experience and a bit more weight on the bone and I thought Lamby (Ryan Lamb) steered them around really smartly in a contest that could have been nervous for us.

"It’s our first aggregate game together and Scottish went 5-0 up and things happened which could have thrown a spanner into the works, but I thought we looked really composed.

“It’s our most physical scrum-drive lin - eout performance yet.

“We will keep making selections in terms of what we think is right for the opponent.

“We felt that, back at home, against a threat which was predominantly from their pack, we would take that away from them and I thought we did that really well.

“We had a really strong frontline which forced them to kick and gave us ball.

“They kept giving us ball and I thought Lamby hurt them. Considering the amount of things we had to work through, I was pretty happy with how we coped.”

Ryan paid tribute to 17-year-old schoolboy Jamie Shillcock, who was drafted into Warriors’ squad due to injuries, and came on in the closing minutes at scrum-half.

“The lad was great all week and has been a real credit to his family and his school,”said Ryan.

“He’s going to be part of us for a long time. We talked about trying to create something for young people like him to come in and he’s probably come in a bit earlier than we expected.

“I had seen bits of him playing at 10 but Sam Vesty knows him well. Sam had confidence and said the lad was ready and he knew he was good enough.

“I am not saying I wouldn’t have pre - ferred Jonny Arr or Charlie Mulchrone, but this is about examining the club and its depth and about preparing people to play at this level in the future.”

Scottish coach Peter Richards felt his side had played all the rugby in the match.

“In terms of rugby, there wasn’t much rugby played and we were the ones playing most of the rugby. For 60 minutes we were in the game and perhaps the scoreline flattered Worcester a bit.”

Richards continued: “We started well and our kicking game, with Pete Lydon in particular, really punished Worcester.

"In the first high ball of the game from Jamie Stevenson, Neil Best got a big hit on the full-back Ben Howard and he only lasted about five minutes after that.

"He was in a world of hurt and dropped balls so we started the game perfectly. I thought we had better of large parts of that first-half.

“I thought we had the better of them in the backs and caused them some trouble.

"It was about the forwards and the rumbling, and that’s Worcester in a nutshell.”