Bath head coach Steve Meehan was delighted with his side's performance in the 34-17 victory at Worcester.
Young Bath side take the plaudits at Sixways
Bath head coach Steve Meehan was delighted with his side's performance in the 34-17 victory at Worcester.
It was the team's first action for three weeks since drawing with Toulouse in the Heineken Cup and Meehan felt it was one of their best efforts after a mid-season break.
"It is our best performance after a break in the last three seasons," Meehan said.
"We weren't perfect, but we played the full 80 minutes and scored the fourth try.
"Bonus points are very important in this competition. That finishes a very good week of training and we have achieved everything and more that we set out to."
Meehan paid tribute to the inexperienced back line that was assembled at the last minute owing to an illness that swept the squad.
"I thought Shontayne Hape was the best we have seen of him in the Premiership, Michael Stephenson who hasn't had much game time this season came in and played very well, Andrew Higgins has come back from a knee injury that has kept him out and grabbed three," he added.
"In addition James Scaysbrook steps in for Michael Lipman and throws himself about.
"So they have all done quite nicely. All those guys who had an opportunity to start took their chance today."
Errors costly for Warriors
Worcester director of rugby Mike Ruddock felt Bath were flattered by the scoreline, but ultimately deserved the points.
"In the first half we were fantastic when we came back from an interception try," he said.
"I thought our defence was fantastic and I said to our boys at half-time that if we could keep up that intensity we could win the game.
"Unfortunately we didn't. We dropped off a couple of tackles and made a couple of individual errors that let them in.
"Bath are a great rugby side, they are a dangerous side, they looked very sharp, they play some good back rugby and they are very difficult to defend against.
"So on a positive side we had some good shape in defence, although maybe our supporters won't think that.
"On a negative side we have to highlight the individual errors that people made and we will highlight that big time on Monday.
"The scoreline did flatter them a little bit although Bath were the better team. For my team it's key errors that keep coming back to bite us."
