THE Rotherham fans' chants of "easy, easy" were painfully near the mark.

Worcester's bid to upset the order at the top of Premiership Two fell woefully short on an afternoon when Rotherham showed they are ready for the great leap upwards.

The league leaders' 42-0 victory was thoroughly deserved as they out-played, out-thought and out-fought Worcester in every department.

It was Worcester' second biggest league defeat in their history and the first time they have failed to score since Rob Andrew's Newcastle scraped a 10-0 cup victory at Sixways just over two years ago.

On that day Worcester came off the field holding their heads high but this time they were just shell-shocked after a devastating performance from the home-side.

The last time Worcester lost by such a margin was back in March 1988 when Hereford scored a 60-0 victory at Sixways when playing in Midlands Two West.

That was in the depths of the Midlands leagues but on Saturday Rotherham showed why they have become hot-favourites for the Premiership Two title.

At the very first line-out they shoved the entire Worcester pack into touch and 40 minutes later they had the game won having built up a 29-0 half-time lead.

Rotherham powerful up-front, stand-off Simon Binns caused havoc with his kicking, and once they got into scoring areas they immediately applied the killer blow.

Worcester's only moments of respite were a superb, mazey run from deep by centre Rob Myler and a break down the right when Nick Baxter was cynically checked by full-back Mike Umaga.

It came after quarter of an hour and had Ben Harvey kicked the resultant penalty Worcester would have been level at 3-3. He missed and 15 minutes later Rotherham were out of sight.

The first try came when Worcester lost line-out ball in their own 22, scrum-half Dave Scully collected his own kick and lock Dean Cook sniped over from close range.

Three minutes later Rotherham were over again when a double bluff in mid-field saw Alan Buzza cut in off the left wing to score by the posts.

On the stroke of half-time Rotherham scored twice more with centre Doug Trivella winning the race to Binns' grubber kick and Buzza scoring his second when number eight Mike Schmid broke down the blind side of a scrum.

Worcester showed character to rally after the break but could not find a way through and soon it was business as usual.

A great run from centre Carlos Hassan set up Binns for a drop-goal and on the hour flanker Neil Spence scored in the corner from a line-out.

Veteran lock John Dudley completed the scoring in injury time taking his career tally to 50 for Rotherham.

It prompted the singing for Rotherham and the post-mortem for Worcester - their season is over.

Worcester: Tuipulotu, Baxter, Myler, Higgins, Walker, Harvey (Yapp 45), Fenley (Martens 55), Windo, Richards (Ball 45), Collins (Lyman 63), Lloyd (Denhardt 67), Raymond, Carter (Denham 55), Daws, Jenner.