Wakefield 15 Worcester 84

THE only question to come out of Worcester's resounding 84-15 win at Wakefield is which team is in the wrong division.

Wakefield made a fight of it in the first half but the game never looked like being a contest after Worcester blitzed the home side with three tries in the opening 11 minutes.

Within seconds of the start Wakefield opened the Worcester defence with ease with prop Nick Lloyd bursting through a porous midfield and only desperate Worcester defending stopped a try inside 30 seconds.

But that was as good as it got for the home side who were soon 15 points behind from three tries in seven minutes.

First Worcester took a Wakefield scrummage against the head, allowing Nick Baxter and Jamie Connolly to combine down the blind side for Bruce Fenley to score.

Chris Raymond then scored from a line-out following a fine break from Fenley and Mat Walker before Dave Sims scored the third following a powerful surge by the forwards.

Wakefield's response was a try of their own, reacting quickly after a bout of kicking tennis to put number eight Aaron Redaelli clear down the right where he easily shrugged off Baxter's challenge.

Normal service was resumed eight minutes later when Raymond broke clear of a maul and James Cockle had the simplest task from five metres.

Tony Yapp had started the game with 99 points to his name this season and, after three misses, he finally landed a conversion to reach the 100 mark.

Hooker James Richards added Worcester's fifth but ironically the try of the half came from Wakefield when flanker Carl Houston burst through the middle, from a line-out deep in the Wakefield half, before slipping the ball to centre Neil Summers to score.

Stand-off Tom Rhodes landed a conversion and a penalty but once Worcester had the advantage of the slope in the second half the game became embarrassingly one-sided.

The avalanche of scores started with Yapp, who profited from strong running by Baxter and the winger scored himself minutes later.

Sims then charged down a Rhodes clearance kick to score his second before replacement winger Rob Myler profited from a Wakefield mistake for number nine, Shaun Woof kicked intelligently ahead, Myler won the race to the ball and kicked it forward before diving over the line.

Dave Merlin had dropped one try-scoring pass from Yapp but made amends second time around scoring under the posts after a break by replacement scrum-half Ben Harvey.

Yapp scored the next from close range and in the dying minutes a score apiece for Baxter and Myler completed the rout.

As for who is out of place in Premiership Two, the answer is probably both Worcester and Wakefield.

Worcester: Hughes, Walker (Myler 47), Higgins (Woof 23), Connolly, Baxter, Yapp, Fenley (Harvey 47), Windo, Richards (Ball 69), Lyman (Linnett 49), Sims, Raymond, (Denhardt 60), Cockle, Carter, Jenner (Merlin 38).