A young Quins side, containing no starters from Saturday's Parker Pen Challenge Cup line-up, found themselves 15-0 behind with little more than a quarter of the game gone, but rallied before the break to go in only 18-6 behind thanks to two penalties from Fitzgerald.

Tom Williams pulled Quins back into contention with a try that Fitzgerald converted midway through the half, but it seemed insufficient until Reay found a gap to squeeze through in the dying seconds.

It was left to Fitzgerald to show how cool that he can be under pressure, with a no-nonsense conversion to leave Worcester wondering how they had lost a game that they must have thought they had sewn up in the opening quarter.