{"id":20667,"date":"2017-12-22T23:16:22","date_gmt":"2017-12-22T22:16:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2017\/12\/22\/worcesters-josh-adams-deepens-premiership-gloom-for-london-irish\/"},"modified":"2017-12-22T23:16:22","modified_gmt":"2017-12-22T22:16:22","slug":"worcesters-josh-adams-deepens-premiership-gloom-for-london-irish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=20667","title":{"rendered":"Worcester\u2019s Josh Adams deepens Premiership gloom for London Irish"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u2022 Worcester 23-8 London Irish\u2022 Wing Adams scores two tries in Irish\u2019s 10th defeat in 11 league gamesThe Aviva Premiership season has barely reached its halfway point but the odds on London Irish escaping relegation are already starting to lengthen. There was only one winner of this pre-Christmas basement battle with Worcester, now a full 10 points clear of their struggling rivals, and the Exiles will need something truly remarkable to avoid a swift return to the Championship.Worcester, who have picked up 17 points from their last five Premiership games, were far from perfect but two tries from their in-form wing Josh Adams and the accurate boot of Chris Pennell proved sufficient to inflict Irish\u2019s 10th defeat in 11 league games. Irish\u2019s director of rugby, Nick Kennedy, made no attempt to sugarcoat the bitter pill, conceding his team had been \u201cvery poor\u201d and fallen short of the required level. \u201cIt\u2019s very disappointing and frustrating\u2026we\u2019ve obviously given ourselves some work to do,\u201d he said. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2017\/dec\/22\/worcester-london-irish-premiership-match-report\" target=\"_blank\">Worcester\u2019s Josh Adams deepens Premiership gloom for London Irish<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2022 Worcester 23-8 London Irish\u2022 Wing Adams scores two tries in Irish\u2019s 10th defeat in 11 league gamesThe Aviva Premiership season has barely reached its halfway point but the odds on London Irish escaping relegation are already starting to lengthen. There was only one winner of this pre-Christmas basement battle [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20667","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20667","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20667"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20667\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}