{"id":354673,"date":"2026-01-06T05:58:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-06T05:58:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/354673\/"},"modified":"2026-01-06T05:58:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-06T05:58:07","slug":"total-flop-the-five-worst-gallagher-prem-signings-of-the-season-page-3-of-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/354673\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Total flop&#8217; &#8211; The five WORST Gallagher Prem signings of the season &#8211; Page 3 of 3"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>5 James O\u2019Connor (Leicester Tigers)<\/p>\n<p>James O\u2019Connor\u2019s time at Leicester Tigers has been frustratingly disjointed. Touted by some as a potential successor to Handre Pollard, his season has been repeatedly interrupted by international call-ups.<\/p>\n<p>After joining Leicester in the summer, O\u2019Connor was recalled to Australia for back-to-back Bledisloe Cup Tests against New Zealand, before returning home again for the Wallabies\u2019 final two Rugby Championship matches.<\/p>\n<p>With Billy Searle now in outstanding form, O\u2019Connor has found himself effectively surplus to requirements at Welford Road, a situation that contrasts sharply with the excitement that greeted his arrival.<\/p>\n<p>EDITORS PICKS:<\/p>\n<p>LIVE TRANSFER BLOG:<\/p>\n<p>Like this:<\/p>\n<p>Like Loading&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"sd-link-color\"\/>\t\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"5 James O\u2019Connor (Leicester Tigers) James O\u2019Connor\u2019s time at Leicester Tigers has been frustratingly disjointed. Touted by some&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":354674,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[5903,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-354673","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-rugby","8":"tag-rugby","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354673","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=354673"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354673\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/354674"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=354673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=354673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=354673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}