AT the eleventh time of asking, Worcester Warriors won in the Guinness Premiership - and didn't the home fans enjoy it.

The Ruddock Revolution' kicked in as the men from Sixways played a great brand of attacking rugby to see off Bristol.

The visitors were below par after their recent Heineken Cup exploits but still held a 5-3 lead at the interval. However, in the second-half, director of rugby Mike Ruddock's men really turned on the style, running in three tries through Pat Sanderson, Greg Rawlinson and Dale Rasmussen.

The only down-side for the Warriors' chief would have been the awful place-kicking of fly-half Loki Crichton, who contrived to miss a hatful of regulation chances. The mercurial Samoan can change a game when on song, but his kicking out of hand and off the floor remains a concern - on this evidence.

Bristol's forwards coach John Brain made his first return to Sixways since being sacked as director of rugby last season and he would not have enjoyed his afternoon as Worcester dominated up front and stole five line-outs in a row early in the game.

Craig Gillies was in imperious form, stealing possession almost at will on Bristol's throw, while former British Lions' prop Darren Morris enjoyed a fine game, which was typified by several bullocking runs.

Worcester began the game brightly and a big hit from Kai Horstmann, who was returning to the side after an ankle problem, turned the ball over and allowed Crichton to chip towards the corner. Bristol right-wing Tom Arscott claimed the ball but slid into touch.

Matt Powell's attempted grubber-kick was blocked and rebounded to Miles Benjamin, but the young winger was off-side.

Visiting prop Alex Clarke was then penalised for not realeasing, but Crichton failed to punish Bristol with a sliced kick into touch, which allowed Richard Hill's men to go on the attack. Scrum-half Graeme Beveridge probed the Warriors with a low kick to inside the home 22, but Gillies once again wrestled control of the ball.

Despite their dominance up front, Worces-ter fell behind on 12 minutes when Arscott's optimistic chip towards Crichton caught the Samoan napping and the former Ply-mouth Albion flyer made the most of the hesitancy to field his own kick and scamper over for the opening score. Outside-half Jason Strange missed the conversion.

Gillies again disrupted Regan's throw and enduced a knock-on from Bristol, who were then penalised at the resulting scrum and Crichton turned the screw with a good touch kick. Worcester claimed the line-out and Morris emerged with the ball to charge off down the left flank, but referee Tony Spread-bury brought play back for offside and Crichton split the posts to make it 5-3.

Shortly afterwards, Benjamin brought the Sixways crowd to their feet with an awesome display of pace and power. Fielding a difficult bouncing ball on his own 10 metre line, the newly-contracted winger out-stripped the on-rushing defence and burst all the way to the Bristol 22 as Worcester surged forward.

The second-half was less than a minute old and Benjamin was at it again. The exciting youngster turned on another pacy burst deep into Bristol territory. The Bristol pack then infringed at the resulting scrum and Crichton knocked over the simple kick to give Worcester the lead.

Bristol were now struggling to live with the Warriors and Bristol captain Matt Salter went over the top to prevent a score and was yellow-carded for his efforts. But to add to the hosts' disdain, Crichton somehow managed to miss his kick.

Ruddock's men were rewarded for their dominance in the 53rd minute when Pat Sanderson got his hands on the ball at the back of a powerful driving maul and steered his colleagues over the line. This time Crichton made no mistake and the scent of victory was in the Sixways air.

Scrum-half Matt Powell was prompting the Warriors' attacks and another well-worked move was rewarded with a try for Rawlinson who joined the line and crashed through the defence to score. Crichton's confidence was returning and he again added the extras.

Salter's afternoon was ended prematurely after a bone-crunching trademark Sam Tui-tupou tackle forced the Bristol skipper off the field with stars circling around his head.

Worcester soon extended their advantage. Some flowing rugby through Ryan Powell, Thinus Delport, Crichton and Rico Gear saw Rasmussen score in corner. Crichton missed the tough touchline conversion, but nothing was going to spoil the home fans' day.