GLENN Delaney has warned his players that they face a another tough task against Birmingham and Solihull Bees.

The Bees are the visitors to Meadow Lane on Sunday (3pm) and after putting back-to-back victories together, Nottingham's director of rugby expects the visitors to be another early season obstacle.

After losing their first game of the season to Cornish Pirates, the Green and Whites have now beaten London Welsh and Moseley, who beat Premiership Leeds Carnegie to win the cup last season.

"We had to work hard against Moseley," said Delaney. "And it will be much the same this Sunday. It will be a tough game and maybe even tougher than against Moseley.

"The Bees are a good broken field side with a very limited amount of structure and if you give them space you could be in trouble.

"These are the kind of teams that if you give them that time and space they will score – that's rugby."

Nottingham made hard work of their trip to Moseley but their 31-20 win and the bonus point sees the them in fifth place in the Championship behind Exeter Chiefs.

"Getting a bonus point win at Moseley is very difficult at the best of times but we gave them 17 unanswered points in a period when we were up 21-3," said Delaney.

"We lost a bit of composure and rose to a bit of niggle which didn't help but, at the end of the day in the last ten minutes, we were looking pretty good.

"We got the driving game going and it shut the game down and a bit of dominance there got us through.

"It's always nice to get a five pointer with the four tries – it's good to see.

"Moseley scored a couple of good tries but they are regrouping at the moment after a couple of big losses.

"It was another hard game for them but we know how good they can be.

"You only have to look at the cup final last year where they beat Leeds at Twickenham, they can be a very good side.

"Every year we go to Billesley it's a close game that we know could go either way until the very end, we just came off right this year."