WORCESTER Warriors’ players are determined to write their names into club folklore, according to Georgian hooker Jaba Bregvadze.

Worcester have defeated Newcastle Falcons, Gloucester and Harlequins in their last three Aviva Premiership outings in their best run in the top tier since March 2007.

And the players have a chance to create club history by achieving a record fourth successive Premiership win.

A crowd of more than 9,000 is expected to cheer on Warriors against basement boys London Irish at Sixways today (5.30pm).

Wing Cooper Vuna returns to the Warriors’ starting line-up in place of Tom Biggs, who impressed in last Saturday’s 21-15 win at Quins.

And a victory against bottom club Irish would almost certainly guarantee Premiership rugby for Warriors next season.

“There is just one thing on our mind and that’s to win this game, we are thinking about nothing else,” said Bregvadze, who is on Warriors’ bench after returning from international duty with Georgia.

“All the players want to make history for Worcester. That’s why we are playing and I hope we can win this game.”

Warriors have won four of their last five matches since scrum-half Francois Hougaard’s arrival last month.

But Irish deservedly defeated Warriors 20-13 in Reading last month and picked up a vital 23-18 win against a misfiring Gloucester last Sunday.

Warriors director of rugby Dean Ryan has labelled Irish as “dangerous opponents”, “who will throw everything” at his side.

And the warning about Irish’s threat was backed up by Bregvadze, who believes the Exiles are a much better unit than their league position suggests.

“It doesn’t matter that London Irish are bottom. We have to respect them and go on to the pitch and give it 100 per cent or we will come up short.”

Lock Darren Barry is another Warrior who is urging the Sixways supporters to be respectful of their opponents and admits the clash will be a tough test.

“The game has huge significance for both teams,” he said.

“We have to win because, despite our good run, mathematically we’re not safe.

“Obviously, the challenge is to get the win and we have also been setting ourselves little targets.”

Barry, who arrived at Sixways from Cornish Pirates in the summer, has been one of Warriors’ most consistent performers this term.

He missed around six weeks of the season after damaging the nerve in his shoulder in a 21-14 defeat at Bath at the end of December.

Barry said: “I kept getting stingers and was unable to move my arm above my head. The injury was something we had to monitor each week.

“I wouldn’t say I was quite ready to come back when I did against Sale Sharks. We were looking at giving it another week.

“But my shoulder was good enough to be strapped up and, after a few painkillers, I was sent out to play and fortunately I have had no re-occurrences with the problem.”

Two Worcester-born players will be trying to scupper Warriors in Irish flanker Luke Narraway and on-loan lock Elliott Stooke.

Irish head coach Tom Coventry said: “Worcester are clearly one of the form teams in the competition at the moment and they have picked up some valuable wins in the last few games.

“They have recruited well of late and their scrum and line-out is strong, so they will offer us a real threat.”

Warriors: Pennell; Heem, Olivier, Mills, Vuna; Heathcote, Hougaard; Rapava Ruskin, Annett, Schonert, O’Callaghan, Barry, Dowson, Kirwan, van Velze. Replacements: Bregvadze, Leleimalefaga, Johnston, Sanderson, Cox, Baldwin, Lamb, Grove.

Irish: Maitland; Lewington, Hearn, Williams, Ojo; Tonks, Steele; Court, Cruse, Aulika, Stooke, Symons, Narraway, Cowan, McCusker. Replacements: Paice, Smallbone, Halavatau, Sexton, Treviranus, McKibbin, Brophy Clews, Mulchrone.