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Kidney: 'I won't have a bad word said against the players'

Duncan Weir scores for Worcester

London Irish director of rugby Declan Kidney was keen to focus on the positives despite seeing his side beaten 20-6 by Worcester after having a player sent off for the second away Gallagher Premiership match in succession.

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Worcester fly-half Duncan Weir, who scored 13 of his side’s points, was on the receiving end of a head-high tackle from Motu Matu’u, which saw the hooker red-carded after only 34 minutes and left Irish to play the whole of the second half a man short.
Stephen Myler kicked two penalties for Irish but Worcester triumphed thanks to a try, conversion and two penalties from Weir, with replacement Jono Lance also on the scoresheet with a try and conversion.

Kidney said: “I saw the incident on the big screen and will need to look at it again and due process will take place afterwards.

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“We put in a massive effort on either side of half-time and I won’t have a bad word said against the players because there was fantastic commitment from them as obviously losing players makes it extremely difficult.

“I think we could have had a penalty try at the end when their full-back was yellow-carded, but then again they had a try disallowed by the TMO in the early stages.”

Worcester director of rugby Alan Solomons accepted his side were not at their best but was content with a valuable four league points.

“It was very important that we won and it was also important that we denied them a bonus point,” he said.

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“However, our error count was far too high, so we couldn’t build any pressure and it can’t have been a pretty game to watch.

“On balance, we deserved to win a very physical game of rugby, but sometimes things don’t work out and it’s hard to explain why.

“To be a top-six side, we need to be better than that, but against Sale and Exeter we showed we could be. But it’s a very strong competition and there are no easy games in it.”

Next up for Worcester is a trip to Saracens next weekend.

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“We need to be a hell of a lot better than we showed today as they are the best team in Europe,” added Solomons.

RugbyPass had the pleasure of interviewing Ireland and Lions star David Wallace.

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