Harlequins went into this match hoping to match their away form with a first home victory in 2009. Meanwhile Warrington arrived at the Stoop having lost four out of four and desperate to get their season started.

After the mascots Buck and Dusty abseiled down from the roof of the stadium with the match ball, Chris Melling kicked off into the bright spring sunshine.

After only 2 minutes a clever pass from Orr allowed Dorn to sidestep through the Warrington defence and score a try to put the first points on the board. Harlequins couldn't have hoped for a better start, and Dorn and Orr again proved they are a combination to be reckoned with. Orr, standing in as captain and kicker for the injured Rob Purdham, converted moments later.

Just before 10 minutes, Warrington pulled back a try through Vinnie Anderson, but failed to convert, leaving Quins 6-4 in the lead.

On 18 minutes Jon Wells made an electrifying run, threatening to go all the way. Upon being tackled, he offloaded to Danny Ward who charged through and touched down between the posts. Danny Orr scored the conversion, sending the ball over the roof of the South Stand as he did so.

Moments later after the restart, a knock-on by Quins gave Warrington the put in for a scrum, and Pual Rauhihi pulled another try back for the visitors, but again the conversion missed.

Harlequins responded quickly and a mistake by Warrington put Danny Orrs kick into touch following the restart. Now it was the turn of Karl Temata to score from a scrum, and again for Orr to convert.

Further tries from Matt Gafa and Danny Orr, both converted by Orr, left Harlequins 30-8 at half time. Harlequins were looking very strong, making very few mistakes and quickly punishing Warrington for theirs.

By the time the second half started, the sun had gone behind the clouds, but this didn't stop Quins from getting off to a bright start. Randall scored on 45 minutes, and again Orr converted to extend his side's lead to an increasingly comfortable 36-8.

Randall came very close moments later, after a clever kick sailed towards the posts and bounced off the padding into the path of the number 9. No one could have predicted where the ball might have gone and Randall did exceptionally well to get near it, though unfortunately it slipped from his grasp as he crossed the try line.

Howell scored on 63 (Orr converted) and minutes later Luke Gale made light work of the clearly disheartened Warrington defence to score his first try at the Stoop. Rather predictably by now, Orr converted.

Warrington appeared to rally for a few minutes and came close to scoring on 71 minutes, but a fumbled ball and knock on denied them and summed up their disappointing afternoon of mistakes.

Another such mistake allowed Melling space to run the length of the pitch to get the ninth Harlequins try of the afternoon. Gale made it a nice round ten and got his second of the afternoon in the final few minutes after a similarly gutsy run of over 30 yards to the try line.

Danny Orr finished the match as he'd started it, kicking another goal to make it 10 out of 10, the final score 60-8. The Harlequins players made their way over to the home fans who had supported them throughout, whilst the Warrington players avoided their very disgruntled and disappointed fans.

Afterwards Brain McDermott gave Warrington credit for their performance: "We were 30-odd points up at one stage and I just didn't feel we were that far in front. Warrington made a contest of it for a long period of the game but towards the end, we ran away with it and gave ourselves a really flattering score line."

Danny Orr said: "Today's been our day and we've enjoyed every second of it." With typical modesty, he added: "10 out of 10 is a record for me, I'm not a great kicker... but I can stick one over now and again."

Warrington coach, Tony Smith, admitted: "Rarely does the scoreboard lie, we deserved that score line and I think [Harlequins] deserved that score line, they worked very hard for it."