ANDY Keast paid tribute to his Warriors after putting Harlequins to the sword.

The former Quins coach was delighted to return to his old stamping ground for victory as Worcester moved up to ninth in the Premiership table.

"We looked a streetwise team in the second-half," he said. "We weren't so composed in the opening half but certainly in the second we looked good and controlled things very well.

"If you'd have said to me, at the start of the season, that we would be celebrating a double over my former club then, of course, I would have taken that.

"However, I don't really look at it like that. It's all about Worcester and the points we can pick up. I don't care who it's against."

In gusty conditions, Worcester kept things tight during the game and, because of their absolute dominance in the scrum, Keast was unapologetic about the style of victory.

"The game plan, before the match, was totally different to how it unfolded," added Keast.

"We were one dimensional and I think, when we brought off a winger and put on a centre in the second half, that showed you we weren't going to go wide.

"We wanted to take them on up front in the last 30 minutes and that's what we did. It wasn't pretty but we were here to come away with a win and we did that.

"I think the forwards were fantastic. As a unit they did very, very well and we felt that we were unlucky not to get a few more penalties because of our dominance.

"We were on top in the scrum and the line-out and we made it count. We drove them back, picked up the penalties and won the game. We were happy to do that because four points at Harlequins, against a team you're down at the bottom with, is massive."

Keast warned, however, that Worcester are far from clear in the race to avoid the drop.

"We've still got a lot of work to do," he said.

"If we don't win another game this season then we'll go down. There's no doubt about that.

"I don't know how many points we'll need to survive but if we win another couple of games then maybe that'll be enough, but who knows?"

Harlequins' chief executive Mark Evans heaped praise on Worcester's scrum in the wake of his side's collapse.

"We were scrummed out the game," he said.

"We've scrummed well all year so credit must go to Worcester because they gave us all sorts of problems.

"When they had the ball they did a lot of double driving. It allowed them to control the clock and field position.

"I said before the game I thought they had the second best scrum in the league behind Leicester -- I'll have to revise my opinion now.

"It was a poor game -- there was no pace and that's the way they wanted to play. When the match did loosen up I thought we tucked up instead of playing a bit wider, which is what we should have done."

"I believe 37 points is the target we must reach to stay up so we need another 11 points from six games to get there," he added.

"It will go down to the last match of the season."