DIRECTOR of rugby Dean Richards admitted that he had feared such a result had been on the cards for Newcastle.
“Before this game, we felt we’d been winning but not playing as well as we could do, and we became unstuck against a team that capitalised on that,” he said.
“Sometimes the players need a rocket and they had one today but there is still everything to play for in the final three games.”
He added: “Worcester were outstanding. We had a lot of inaccuracies with the ball in hand which meant we were defending a lot and that’s always going to tell...