THERE were a lot of positives from the 16-16 draw with Gloucester at Sixways on Saturday.

We had a game-plan against them, which we stuck to and was promising — there were bits of excellence from us and I thought we looked impressive in attack once again.

It is going to come, we are playing in a more positive style of rugby this year as opposed to the Worcester of last year.

It won’t happen overnight, but we will stick with what we’re doing and we are 100 per cent positive that what we’re doing is going in the right direction.

We could have had a couple of tries in the first-half, but for the final pass, and those extra passes are what we’ve been working on all summer. If you keep hammering away at that, eventually they will pay off and we will start making them count to win games.

The lads are down after the manner of the draw and it will be a tough week in training, but we always knew it wouldn’t happen straight away. We have to keep chipping away and the wins will come.

The commitment and effort was there — no-one was shying out of tackles — but it just didn’t come off for us again on the day.

We missed the final re-start which was contested and maybe we could have secured it better and we’ll have a look at that last scrum to see if it was a penalty or not. We just need to eradicate these mistakes we are making with 30 seconds left on the clock.

We could easily be looking back on our start to the season with two wins and a losing bonus point at Leicester, but the reality is I really don’t want this to become the story of our season.

I can say, hand on my heart, we are the hardest working team in the Premiership. I’ve never been in such an environment before when we’ve put in as many hours on the training pitch and the video room.

We know where we want to be and there is a good ethos in the club, so we have to carry on doing that, but we don’t want to fall into the bracket of ‘what-ifs’. We need to be killing these games and making sure the last passes count to secure the wins.

I thought Nikki Walker did really well, despite dislocating his thumb in the first few seconds of the game, which wasn’t great for him. It’s good to see him back in the mix and it is always tough to come straight back in after a long time injured, but he seemed to go pretty well and he is a good asset to the club.

We’ve banged on in the off-season that we want our bench players to come on and make an impact and we brought all the replacements on and they did well.

Semisi Taualva made some good line-breaks and got his legs pumping, James Currie scored a try and I was really happy for him.

In our opening three games, we’ve had four yellow cards — that is the equivalent of one half of rugby with 14 men on the pitch, which makes life impossible.

We have been banging on about discipline, yet we are still giving away stupid penalties, which is ultimately costing us. That is a massive area we need to brush up on, you can’t give away cheap points at this level.

We go to Northampton this week and that will be a tough game too. They have an excellent set of forwards, but we have a big pack too and that is certainly one of our weapons.