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Photo: Marek Churcher
Redruth head coach Marek Churcher has been appointed Cornwall’s backs coach taking over the role from Ian Morgan who stepped down earlier this season.
Speaking about the appointments to the coaching staff Cornwall’s head coach Graham Dawe said,
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BillYesterday evening, players, coaches and officials from the Cornwall RFU assembled at St. Austell Brewery Visitors Centre to plot a chart that will hopefully bring Cornwall a third successive Bill Beaumont Cup, reports Bill Hooper.
With a new group there were some new faces and inevitably some familiar faces from previous seasons who will not be participating this season.
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Photo – Last season’s squad in action against Berkshire
Under 20s
Cornwall 33 Devon 19
U20s coaches Mike Rawlings, Bryn Jenkins and Matt Shepherd will have been pleased by the bright start their squad have made to the season prior to the Championship pool matches.
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Bill
A win was the only objective for Camborne on Saturday and they got just that with 25-18 success against Ivybridge.
It’s been a tough few weeks at Crane Park and the Cherry and Whites mounting injury crises will not ease matters in the short term.
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Bill
Ducker scored a great try against Chinnor
It was good to get back to rugby and see my first game for 2017, and what a game it was as Redruth defeated Chinnor 29-12 scoring four superb tries in a National League 2 South thriller.
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Photo- Redruth’s Brad Howe receives the Tony Pill Memorial Cup as man-of-the-match
REDRUTH 54-7 CAMBORNE
Words By Bill Hooper, Photos Phil Trevarton
Redruth comfortably retained the Rodda’s Milk Cup against old rivals Camborne in front of a large crowd on a sunny Boxing Day afternoon.
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Bill
Only one place to start this week and that’s in Camborne, where it has been an eventful 48 hours for all the wrong reasons.
I could sense all was not well when arriving at the ground on Saturday and this was soon confirmed when told Ian Morgan was not at the game.
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Bill
Having surprisingly lost at home the previous week to bottom side Richmond in the Championship, the Pirates turned their attention to British & Irish Cup action against London Irish on Sunday.
With a rotated squad the Pirates slipped to a 33-24 defeat leaving the exiles in control of their pool prior to next Sunday’s return fixture at the Mennaye.
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On Sunday the Cornish Pirates travelled to Doncaster Knights, last season’s beaten play-off finalist’s, and came away from Castle Park with an emphatic 35-26 win.
It put an end to a losing Championship run of five games and showed that this squad can compete with the best in the Championship.
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Bill
The Cornish Pirates played a home game on Saturday when they entertained Championship leaders London Irish at the Mennaye.
Despite a crowd of 2,043 packed in at the Mennaye the Pirates couldn’t deny Irish as the exiles continue their march back towards the Premiership following their 35-24 win.
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