WORCESTER Warriors secured their second win of the Aviva Premiership season as they booted Northampton Saints into submission at Sixways.

In a match that was lacking in quality from both teams, it was Warriors who maintained their discipline the best to secure victory in front of the television cameras with fly-half Andy Goode kicking four penalties.

But Richard Hill’s men will feel that they should have done better when the visitors had prop Brian Mujati sent to the sin-bin early in the second-half.

The hosts instead of using the extra man to their advantage had to defend as Saints piled on the pressure.

Yet, throughout this contest try-scoring opportunities were at a premium and when they came along neither side could take them.

Having made three changes from the 17-15 defeat to Harlequins last week with Ed Shervington coming in for veteran hooker Chris Fortey, Craig Gillies came into the second row while Chris Jones moved to number eight in place of the injured Kai Horstmann.

But neither team came into this contest in form as Saints tired late on at Sale Sharks last week to lose 29-21.

However, it was Hill’s men who made the stronger start, they weren’t giving away as many penalties as they had been in previous outings and they managed to keep the ball in hand.

Yet, quality in the first-half came from only one man - Errie Claasens.

The full-back was in scintillating form and provided Warriors with their biggest threat in an opening 40 minutes that was lacking in entertainment.

Having already missed one kick at goal in the fifth minute, Goode fired Warriors into the lead with a ninth minute penalty.

But as the half wore on, the Sixways men’s handling was once more letting them down and they were penalised for going off-side in the 13th minute and Saints stand-off Stephen Meyler levelled the scores with the penalty.

Neither team provided much threat to the whitewash with Claasens and Sai-nts wing Paul Diggin going the closest.

Goode restored the Warriors lead eight minutes before the interval after his team’s scrum won a penalty on the half-way line which he duly converted to give Hill‘s side a 6-3 interval lead.

The former England number 10 extended the Warriors lead five minutes into the second-half when Saints centre Jon Clarke impeded at the ruck.

Worcester began to pile on the pressure after the break and Saints were feeling the heat as they began to infringe at the breakdown repeatedly which saw prop Brian Mujati sent to the bin on 51 minutes.

Goode made it 12-3 with a simple penalty on 68 minutes as Warriors started to believe that they could win.

While Saints’ Ryan Lamb missed a penalty to bring his team back into the contest, Warriors closed the victory.