{"id":41443,"date":"2017-02-27T09:27:45","date_gmt":"2017-02-27T07:27:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.times.mw\/?p=41443"},"modified":"2017-02-27T09:27:46","modified_gmt":"2017-02-27T07:27:46","slug":"no-joy-for-joyce-mvula","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/2017\/02\/27\/no-joy-for-joyce-mvula\/","title":{"rendered":"No joy for Joyce Mvula"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Malawian shooter Joyce Mvula is yet to realise the feeling of winning in the United Kingdom Vitality Superleague after her new club Manchester Thunder lost a second consecutive game on Saturday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>Mvula was reportedly in the thick of things as Thunder lost 58-48 to defending champions Surrey Storm at Super Ten in Birmingham.<\/p>\n<p>The Malawian signed for Thunder on a six-month deal from Blue Eagles Sisters.<\/p>\n<p>During the match, Thunder website reports that they went toe-to-toe with the holders.<\/p>\n<p>What made the defeat painful for Thunder Coach, Karen Greig, was that her charges were in control of the proceedings in all but the last quarter.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut they again played with plenty of passion, skill and composure and the final scoreline today does not reflect their performance,\u201d the website reports.<\/p>\n<p>Nonetheless, Greig remains bullish that her side can turn their fortunes around, starting with their home game with Scottish Sirens next weekend.<\/p>\n<p>Surrey lead the standings alongside Wasps Netball, Loughborough Lightning and Sirens, while Thunder are rooted to the bottom of the table.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Malawian shooter Joyce Mvula is yet to realise the feeling of winning in the United Kingdom Vitality Superleague after her new club Manchester Thunder lost a second consecutive game on Saturday afternoon. Mvula was reportedly in the thick of things as Thunder lost 58-48 to defending champions Surrey Storm at Super Ten in Birmingham. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":40167,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41443","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41443","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41443"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41443\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41447,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41443\/revisions\/41447"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40167"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}