WORCESTER Warriors director of rugby Dean Ryan is urging his players to put aside their own personal ambitions and focus on the task in hand.

Ryan wants his side to be more ‘clinical, collective and cohesive for longer’ in Friday’s Greene King IPA Championship clash against Jersey at Sixways.

Warriors sealed a sixth consecutive league win on Saturday night after overcoming Plymouth Albion 22-10 but had to withstand a second-half barrage from the basement outfit at Brickfields.

Ryan’s men led 17-0 at the interval but struggled to get out of their half for long spells of the second period as Plymouth reduced the deficit to just seven points.

However, a fine piece of finishing from Tom Biggs sealed Warriors’ triumph and a try bonus point with 11 minutes remaining.

“Competition for places is great but sometimes players get frustrated if they don’t get the vehicle to showcase what they are all about,” said Ryan.

“Plymouth was possibly one of those circumstances when everyone was trying to do well.

“Sometimes players have to put their own individual ambitions aside, do the job and be patient and wait for another time to show what they can do.

“I want us to be clinical for longer – I think that’s probably the main thing to take out of the Plymouth game.

“There are elements of games that are not going to go well but I want us to be clinical, collective and cohesive for longer.”

Experienced scrum-half Jonny Arr left the field towards the end of the first-half after a taking a knock to his head and lock Darren O’Shea was limping after the final whistle.

Replacement scrum-half Jean Baptiste-Bruzulier got his first taste of Championship action and had a difficult time as Plymouth’s forwards put pressure on Warriors’ set piece.

Ryan was full of praise for skipper Gerrit-Jan van Velze, who scored two first-half tries.

“I think GJ is getting better and better,” said Ryan.

“He understands our game and gets the mix right with a powerful driving line-out and then understands when to hold a bit of width and be patient.

“I am really pleased with the way he’s heading in terms of captaincy and in playing. I am seeing the benefits of what a top-quality player he is.”

Ryan was pleased with the win and said he didn’t think it had been a step back for Warriors.

“Our game management needs to be more clinical and, in the second-half, we just had to accept that it wasn’t and we could have made life a lot easier for ourselves,” he said.

“I don’t think that it’s a step back because that discredits coming to these places.

“It’s not the tidiest 30 minutes we’ve had.

“We changed things too early. It was almost like we got bored of what we were doing so we thought we would try something else.”