Best show leaves Wild Geese adrift

By SAM HOLDSWORTH
Canterbury 21
London Irish 17
TWO late tries earned London Irish Wild Geese a losing bonus point but Canterbury took the win after dominating for large periods of a tense match.
Flanker Hugh McCormick-Houston opened the scoring for the hosts with just seven minutes gone with his score converted by fly-half Thomas Best.
Matthew Killeen replied by crossing the whitewash for the Geese but George Owen was unable to convert.
When Wild Geese centre Sean Cunningham was shown a yellow card on 35 minutes, the home side made them pay as hooker Tom Rogers extended Canterbury’s ...

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