DOWNBEAT John Brain was in no mood for excuses after seeing Worcester fail to pick up the all-important bonus point at London Welsh.

The Sixways chief refused to blame the patchy performance from referee Geraint Ashton-Jones or the atrocious conditions for Worcester's display in Saturday's 21-3 win.

The victory -- and four National One points -- went almost unnoticed in the Worcester camp as the leaders failed to score four tries and dropped that extra point in their second successive away match this season.

"I was not very happy with the performance," he said. "We didn't control the ball for long enough and you have to do that, especially away from home. I thought we were going to get the fourth try towards the end but then we had a man sin-binned which makes it very difficult."

Neil Lyman received his marching orders for illegal use of the boot with just seven minutes to go and with Worcester chasing the final try of the match, it became an uphill struggle they just failed to win.

"We are very disappointed to not have the five points," he added. "There are no real excuses and that includes the weather conditions. The conditions were no excuse -- you have to deal with them as do the opposition. The performance was indifferent and obviously we have to put things right before the game with Coventry."

Ben Hinshelwood, Martin Morgan and substitute Duncan Roke scored the tries for the Gold'n'Blues while Tony Yapp kicked all the conversions. However, in truth, they never looked likely to get the fourth try and saw their lead in the division cut to one point after Rotherham's 55-6 victory over Otley.

After Worcester's 20-18 win over their title rivals last weekend, Brain admitted the London Welsh result was a big blow. He did, however, question the consistencies of decisions made by referees at this level.

"It's strange that we can put 16 phases of play together against Rotherham and score but struggle to achieve more than three or four today," he said. "We'll just have to look at the breakdowns on the video tape, the ruck area and see whether we need to be doing something different.

"We could never get any continuity into our game. There was no cutting edge there, we made it easy for their defence."