• Exiles seven points from safety with two games to play
London Irish’s 20-year stay in the top flight is all but over after defeat to the only club they can overtake. They are now seven points behind Newcastle with two matches to go and, as one is at Wasps, they are clinging on to their Premiership status by a cracked fingernail.
Only a side as low on confidence and self-belief could have lost a match they dominated. They had 68% of the territory in the second-half as they looked to overhaul a 10-6 interval deficit, having presented Newcastle with their try when Greig Tonks’s ambitious, misdirected pass was scooped up by Marcus Watson just inside his own half and there was no one to stop the wing.
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