WORCESTER Warriors coach Matt Everard has pledged that his side will "put to bed" their set piece troubles this week.
The coach admitted that in their last two outings against Bedford Blues and Chinnor - their first back-to-back losses since their return - Warriors 'got it wrong' in the set piece battle, but added that the side will improve this weekend against top-of-the-league Ealing Trailfinders.
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"You can break the set piece pretty simply down into three components – scrum, line-out attack, line-out defence," said Everard. "(Chinnor) won all three of those.
"When you lose all three components of the set piece battle, you’d do well to be in a game. Which we ultimately were because of others areas of our performance, but set piece is the main thing, it is the bedrock of the game and we lost that.
"We got it wrong on the day and we need to improve those areas. If I’m honest, I think we got it wrong the last two weeks.
"I think Bedford won the set piece battle against us and I think Chinnor did."
Everard explained that Warriors need to quickly put their set piece woes to bed before it grows into a bigger thing, stating that they will do in their next match.
"You quickly need to put that to bed otherwise it becomes an area that teams target and then it becomes harder and harder. We are going to put that to bed this week," he said.
"The lads have been brilliant. You talk about feedback without resentment, which is a tough thing to have sometimes, but we are honest and we want to improve so much as a group.
"The lads grab that feedback, have no resentment about it and have worked so hard this week to improve those areas and like I said, we are going to improve this weekend."
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On how they have looked to fix their problems, Everard added: "What we have done is made it really, really simple, really simple.
"We want lads to have absolute clarity in what their role is.
"When you have clarity, you get intent. You are not thinking ‘I should be here, I should be here’, you are just absolutely clear – 'all this is, is my job, I just have to do it with the absolute upmost physicality'.
"We have probably stripped it back a little bit, made it really, really simple. Just to get absolute, maximal intent."
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