DEAN Ryan admitted he was frustrated that Worcester Warriors aren’t further ahead going into Friday’s Championship semi-final second leg against London Scottish.

Warriors won 27-22 at the Richmond Athletic Ground with two tries from Cooper Vuna and one from Sam Smith, as well as seven points from the boot of Ryan Lamb.

But having been 17-3 up in the first-half, Ryan thought his side should have pushed on for a greater margin of victory.

The Warriors director of rugby said: “We’re pleased we won the game, we’re away from home, we’re five points up and we go home to where we’re comfortable.

“I think we’re frustrated that the margin wasn’t greater, certainly in the first-half, and 30 minutes with 14 men is always going to limit the score until we got back to 15 men.

“Alex Grove did a great defensive job and at 17-3 it didn’t look like any issue.

“We then just lost a bit of control of the game, piggy backed them up the field with silly penalties and that got them back in.

“This contest was always two legged, we’re up and we’ve done the difficult bit of coming here.

“We’re now going back to where we play well and hopefully finish the job.”

But the Sixways chief once again felt aggrieved at what he sees as his team getting a raw deal from referees at the driving maul.

Last week Warriors made an official complaint to the RFU over the handling of their league match against Bristol and Ryan doesn’t think the situation improved with Premiership referee Greg Garner overseeing matters.

“We’ve had issues with Premiership referees all the time about the number of offences,” he said.

“Just saying a Premiership referee is going to solve it, it doesn’t quite clearly, it didn’t solve it with all the other ones that we’ve had.

“I don’t think we see a huge amount that troubles us other than the drive and we need to get some clarity over how we’re supposed to defend it and how we’re supposed to deal with men in front of the ball.

“We got penalised at 70 minutes for a man in front of the ball on a drive.”

Jonny Arr, Mike Williams and James Percival were all sent to the sin bin during the contest, following on from Vuna and Jonathan Thomas against Bristol.

Ryan said: “I think today is less of a frustration because I don’t think they were necessarily silly ones.

“Yellow cards come with being under pressure, I think there are other areas of the game we didn’t do particularly well which put us under pressure.”

But he continued: “We’re leaking penalties at the drive and getting people off in the bin. Then it takes five situations to get a reward (scrums before penalty try) yet we get one situation defending the drive and we’ve got people in the bin.

“That’s for another time but we just want to get ready for a Friday night contest, reward the supporters, put on a show, finish this job and get in the final.”