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Cornwall’s Matt Shepherd has been called up for England Counties tour to Canada.
Shepherd joins fellow Cornish players Tom Cowan-Dickie and Craig Williams in the touring party.
The tour will begin on Friday 3 June in Vancouver with a match against BC Bears who they last played on the 2010 Canada tour.
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BillBill Hooper reports from Camborne, photos by Simon Bryant Iktisphoto
Cornwall completed their preparations for Twickenham with their final training session last night (Thursday 26th May) at Camborne RFC.
Prior to training, it was the usual pre-Twickenham media scrum with BBC Spotlight, Radio Cornwall, Pirate FM and the written press all seeking that quote from the coaches and players!
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Full-back Tom Foden, who played in Cheshire’s final pool game against Lancashire, misses out through injury with Macclesfield’s Charlie Venables coming in from the bench.
Caldy’s Harrison Crowe, who was also on the bench, is the other player to miss out from Cheshire’s final pool game.
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Photo, by Simon Bryant: Camborne parade three of their new signings Leigh Hocking (middle), Brad Howe & Joel Matavesi
Despite his preoccupation with Cornwall’s County Championship campaign, Camborne’s new Director of Rugby Ian Morgan has wasted little time in adding to his squad for next season’s National League 3 SW campaign,
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Photo: Greg Goodfellow will be looking to bring the curtain down on his Cornwall career with a winner’s medal
Cornwall’s selectors have made just the one change to the starting line up for Sunday’s Bill Beaumont Cup Final at Twickenham, kick-off mid-day.
Plymouth Albion’s Rupert Freestone starts at hooker,
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Games between Cornwall and Cheshire don’t come round that often: according to the records, this is only the sixth meeting between the two counties.
Cornwall lead 4-1, but that sole Cheshire win came in 1998 at the Tetley’s Bitter County Championship final on the 18th April,
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Photo: Gavin and Alan with Chris Stirling overlooking Wellington Harbour
The Cornish Pirates coaching duo, Alan Paver and Gavin Cattle, are in New Zealand this week, meeting up and staying with the club’s former High Performance Manager, Chris Stirling, writes Cornish Pirates’
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By Bill Hooper, at the Recreation Ground, photos Simon Bryant
Cornwall were again pushed all the way before making sure of the win during the final ten minutes of a pulsating game, to book a fourth successive County Championship final at Twickenham next Sunday,
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BillBill Hooper reports from the training session at Camborne last night (Wednesday 18 May) with photos from Simon Bryant Iktisphoto.
Cornwall go into Saturday’s game against Surrey knowing that they are just eighty minutes from a fourth successive visit to England rugby’s illustrious HQ!
Between them and that achievement is a Surrey side who will be battling to avoid a swift return to Division 2 of the Bill Beaumont Cup following two defeats against Hertfordshire and Gloucestershire.
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Cornwall versus Surrey – A Look Back In Time!
For Cornish rugby followers of a certain vintage, this weekend’s match will kindle memories of three thrillingly tense matches played against Surrey 49 years ago.
Lineout action from the Athletic Ground,
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