WARRIORS director of rugby Dean Ryan felt Saturday’s 56-15 victory against London Scottish sent out a clear message to their play-off rivals.

Worcester scored 35 unanswered points in the second-half to comfortably seal a Championship double against the Richmond outfit.

“We were a bit fed up of hearing all the noise that sits around us losing against Jersey,” said Ryan “We found an answer and London Scottish will have to deal with a 50-point loss.

“If they meet us again then they will know what’s coming.

“I think we can be much better. We gave them the 15 points so I think the warning is out that we can be much better than that. I am pretty pleased with the second- half performance.”

However, Warriors made a poor start to the match, conceding a try in the second minute and then falling behind at 15-14 after 22 minutes.

The returning Ryan Lamb was heavily involved in the opening four tries – scoring Warriors’ first and taking some responsibility for the two which Scottish bagged.

“In the first-half, Lamb was slow to start – he had not played for four or five weeks and he made things tick in the second-half,” said Ryan.

“I think we can be a lot better than that – I think we can be better earlier in games.

We have lost a bit of the flying starts that we had. We are a little bit scrappy. I think there are more points to come.

“We have just got to come to terms with games played over 80 minutes and have some confidence in what we’re about.

“There wasn’t anything particularly wrong with the first-half. There were a lot of errors put together.

"Lamby put the kick out, which I thought was a great kick but it went straight out and they scored from the line-out.

“Then he gave an interception. It would be quite easy to take those points away. “

Debutant Cooper Vuna sparked Warriors’ scintillating second-half display with his maiden try in the opening minute.

Ryan said: “I thought he was great. He beat the first man every time and got us over the gain-line.

“I am really delighted he got on the scoreboard. It’s difficult to come to a club and not play. Cooper got an injury when we wanted to play him.

“He’s been patient and worked really hard. He shows us what we see in him.

"He’s got something different from everyone else.

“He’s powerful and got great feet and he can play. We have some work to do. We are just getting him used to our systems.

“Cooper hadn’t played for three months and we want him to play in the next game.

We have to recognise it’s the start of the season for him. We have to make sure we look after him.”

Ryan continued: “We do a lot of good stuff that gets us on an edge and we have to convert more from it and Cooper’s got the capabilities to do that.

"If he sees mismatches, his rugby league background is second to none in picking off people."