WARRIORS director of rugby Dean Ryan said it had been a frustrating afternoon and acknowledged his side still had a lot to learn.

“We have to give full credit to Moseley – if that’s what is going to face us for nine months in the Championship, then we’re going to have to get used to it,” he said.

“We are cup final time for every side that we go to.

“For a lad who is on a gig at Moseley, he’s got all the incentives to come out and put on a massive show against players supposedly at a bigger club.

“This Championship is a tough struggle and a unique challenge and that was a wake-up call to what the competition is all about.

“The nature of the win was not convincing enough for us to just be able to say ‘let’s move on’.

“There is a lot of learning for us to do and that’s 80 per cent of guys who have had a first go at a Championship fixture.

“We haven’t got much experience in this group so we don’t have reference points when something different happens to us.

“There is a lot of frustration because we dominated the game. We knew that we were going to win the game but it’s frustrating we could not find that next level of performance.

“The frustration is that when the moments are there we can’t nail them down. It allows opponents to stay alive - whether it’s Moseley or Bristol.

“We are going to make changes and push some of this group out to play and get them to experience it. I do not want to be coming to the tail-end of this Championship with guys who haven’t experienced it either through choice or through injury and are forced into that situation.”

Ryan admitted Warriors spurned chances in the first-half and should have opened up a commanding advantage.

“In the first 20 minutes, we had to score,” he said.

“You can’t have three or four driving line-outs five metres out and not score. In those first 20 minutes you have the chance to shape the pattern of the game.

“If that had been Northampton in those positions they would have been 21-0 up and the game is really easy from there. That game should have been really easy for us.”

Moseley coach Kevin Maggs said he was relatively pleased with his side’s display at Sixways.

“We wanted an improvement in our performance and, with it being a local derby, the players were up for it and I think that showed in our display,” said Maggs.

“Overall, I am relatively pleased.

“The lads dug deep and I thought our back row was exceptional and made a lot of tackles and put in a hard shift.

“We left a few opportunities out there – and missed a few kicks at goal.”

Maggs added: “We have got a habit of starting slowly in matches and then building into games and I felt the same happened against Warriors.

“I thought we had a bit more of the ball in the second -half and we ended up coming back strongly into the game.”