WHEN Mike Ruddock turns up for work at Sixways this morning the first thing he will be looking for is an Argos catalogue.

The Worcester Warriors director of rugby will be heading straight for the computer section and he will be ordering a sack load of Nintendo DS's complete with Dr Kawa-shima's Brain Training game.

Why? To try and help improve his side's lack of concentration.

Once again this new-look Warriors side showed glimpses of the style of rugby that the former Grand Slam winning coach is trying to play but, like the three previous matches, Worcester's lapses of concentration left them still waiting for their first Guinness Premiership victory of the season.

At times against Saracens, the Warriors showed guile and determination up front where they annihilated the Vicarage Road side's front eight, while the backs showed speed and skill that had the near 9,000 Sixways' crowd on its feet.

But the Londoners still went away with their third victory on the road this term.

It wasn't as if Alan Gaffney's men had stomped all over the Warriors like England had done to Australia in Marseille earlier in the day.

No, this Saracens win was handed to them on a plate.

While only four games have gone in this current campaign, this worrying trend of gifting opponents victory must be dealt with.

The habit of losing games must be broken otherwise when the World Cup campaigners, Chris Horsman, Aleki Lutui and Aisea Havili, and the star signings of Rico Gear, Greg Rawlinson and Sam Tuitupou come into contention, the Sixways outfit may again be fighting for their Premiership lives.

Worcester started this match with serious intent and took the game to the Vicarage Road side up front.

In only the second minute the Warriors' pack got their driving maul going and had the Londoners retreating faster than Gordon Brown getting ready to announce a Novem-ber election.

But for all the early pressure, Worcester committed the cardinal sin of coming away without turning possession and territory into points.

This clash was sadly lacking points and when Dale Rasmussen sent Adam Powell crashing to floor with a thumping tackle it looked like Worcester were ready to put a strangle-hold on the match. However, an infringement at the ruck saw Saracens awarded their second penalty and Glen Jackson made no mistake in sending the visitors into a 3-0 lead.

Shane Drahm made a searing break for the line 13 minutes before the interval, but his run was brought to a crashing halt and, just like at Gloucester the previous weekend, more infringements allowed Worcester's opponents to ease the pressure.

However, shortly afterwards, Thinus Del-port made a superb break for the line and with his opposite wing Marcel Garvey up in support, the two former Kingsholm men engineered the Warriors first score of the match.

The South African charged down the left flank before the ball was spread out wide to the lightning-quick Garvey on the right and he went over in the Saracens corner. Drahm completed the conversion to put Ruddock's men 7-3 up on 31 minutes.

But the Warriors lead was short-lived.

As Worcester looked to break out of their own half a suicide pass from Drahm allowed Rodd Penney to pounce.

The Auckland-born outside-centre saw the Warriors part like the Red Sea and raced away under the posts. Jackson fired over the easy conversion.

The Saracens' number 10 stretched the visitors' lead even further in first-half stoppage time with another penalty.

Worcester came out in the second period fired up just like they were at the beginning of this match and, with another powerful driving maul, they came agonisingly close to getting their second try of the match. Full-back Richard Haughton, though, managed to touch the ball down behind his own try-line for a drop out on the visitors 22.

Drahm pulled the Warriors back within three points with his first penalty of the match, but then Gavin Quinnell, who had only been on the pitch for two minutes, had a sudden rush of blood.

Coming on for Kai Horstmann to the Automatic's Monster, the giant back-rower nearly decapitated Sakiusa Matadigo and the former Llanelli Scarlet earned himself 10 minutes in the sin-bin.

Jackson sent over the resulting penalty to restore the six-point lead, before Drahm responded with three points of his own on 63 minutes.

With the visitors leading 16-13, Haughton put Saracens out of reach with a superb try that saw the pacy full-back cut a diagonal across the field to go over in the far corner. Jackson failed to add the extras.

Drahm made sure that the Warriors went home with a losing bonus point with another penalty, but Ruddock and his charges know that three points from the opening four games of the season is not good enough.

One positive for Ruddock is that Horsman, Lutui and Havili should be back in contention for Friday night's basement battle at Leeds Carnegie.