Let’s face it Dean Ryan has hardly been short of reasons to pull out his hair, after all if baldness is what you crave Worcester Warriors are the team for you.

The Premiership’s cellar dwellers are frustration in rugby form. For months they perform badly, sometimes not seeming to care and even when they finally play well - they remain maddening.

Three times Warriors took the lead against champions Leicester last Friday night and three times they were almost instantly reined in by the concession of a needless penalty.

Ryan must either sit on his hands or wear a hat because for most of us it was enough to render even the most hirsute utterly egg-like.

So what does he do? Brings in Ryan Lamb, one of the most gifted English fly halves of the last decade but also one of the most exasperating.

Should he have known better? After all it was Ryan who first gave Lamb the oxygen of first team rugby with which to burn opponents and sometimes himself.

For the neutral Lamb is brilliant to watch, as liable to make an impudent break as throw an interception, the 27-year-old is many things - but boring is not one of them.

Which makes his recruitment all the more entertaining. We haven’t seen much of the director of rugby’s reputedly volcanic temper at Sixways yet, maybe Lamb could be the man to spark Worcester - and their coach.

“I don’t think there’s a coach who’s ever worked with Ryan who has got a full head of hair. That’s what comes with it,” Ryan said.

“That’s frustration at being right at the top where there are really small differences. Some of Ryan’s talent can sometimes be frustrating, [you need] an ability to adapt and be pragmatic.

“I think he’s better, you look at Northampton I think he got better at managing that because he had such a strong forward pack he was more capable of utilising that. Which was an advancement from where we were at Gloucester. And he has been involved in the Leicester culture, albeit for a short time, where it is about pragmatism. Life experiences will have given him some insight.

“But I will be surprised if I’ve had the last time pulling out my hair working with Ryan. That’s part of the attraction of working with him.

“I am fully aware of that, I am not walking blindly into the room. I am fully energised working with him. You see him training with us on his first day and what he’s capable of doing with the ball is second to none. My job is to harness some of that, talk with him and manage others around him.”

Ryan seemed wearied by Lamb’s high stakes approach when their time at Gloucester came to an end. But he insists there was no fall out and no need for a rapprochement.

“I have huge respect for what he is capable of doing. I have no reason to say that relationship ended in any other way than us taking different directions. The opportunity for us to work together again was a pretty straight forward conversation.”