Leading perspective on Cornish rugby
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Cornwall go into their final pool game against Devon in this season’s Under 20 County Championship knowing that only a win will do, reports Bill Hooper.
Sadly, neither side are in the running for the quarter-finals this season, having both featured last season, but with relegation having been brought in this year the loser of this game will be demoted to a lower level next season and neither county will relish that prospect.
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Bill
Photo – Tom Cowan-Dickie scored for the Reds against Taunton
St. Piran’s Day served up it’s very own rugby classic as Redruth powered to an impressive 38-3 win against Taunton Titans at the Recreation Ground.
The win saw the Reds leap-frog Taunton the National League 2 table and with a mouth-watering game this Saturday against Old Albanian again at the Rec the prospect of in the case of a win moving up to third!
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BillGloucestershire U20 36 – 14 Cornwall U20
Cornwall travelled to Cinderford RFC in the Forest of Dean for their second championship game of the season, despite a bright opening, Cornwall found their hosts too hot to handle especially with two yellow cards during the game.
Cornwall got off to a flying start with a try after 12 minutes when scrum half Dan Rutter dived over after some hard work by the forwards close to the Gloucestershire line.
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Bill
Let’s start with the league, on Sunday the Cornish Pirates had a dress rehearsal for their British & Irish Cup quarter-final tie with Doncaster Knights at the Mennaye on Sunday March 13th with the winners away to either London Welsh or Leinster.
Second placed Knights gave the home side food for thought with a 26-19 win to inflict a third straight defeat for the Cornish side.
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BillEngland Counties have named their side to face Scottish Clubs at Netherdale tomorrow night kick-off 7:30 pm
Former Cornish All Black, now with Plymouth Albion, prop Christian Judge, a star from Cornwall’s County Championship win last season starts the game at tight-head prop.
Redruth’s Tom Cowan-Dickie is on the bench and looks likely to be involved at some point.
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BillCORNWALL RFU UNDER 20 COUNTY CHAMPIONSHIP 2016
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Photos- Cornwall Under 20s in action at Berkshire
Cornwall Rugby Football Union (CRFU) Under 20 County Championship campaign 2016 continues on Sunday 28 February with another away trip against Gloucestershire.
Following the first game defeat away to last year’s beaten finalist Berkshire,
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Bill“CORNWALL RFU PREPARE FOR THE COUNTY CHAMPIONSHIP”
Photos – Simon Bryant Itkisphoto
Cornwall Rugby Football Union (CRFU) has started it’s preparation for the 2016 Bill Beaumont County Championship campaign that gets underway in May.
Selectors and coaches have been observing games and watching eligible players at all levels since the start of the season.
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Bill
Photos – Mark Collet – Huw Wright heads for the posts
Photo – CSM support cheers try
I took in two back-to-back games at Penryn on Saturday, the first a fairly dire display from a Penryn side that made far too many mistakes going down 8-0 to Cullompton in their Tribute Western Counties West encounter.
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Bill
The Tribute South West 1 West game at Camborne saw the leaders forced to battle hard to overcome a resilient Clevedon side in a game that at times threatened to erupt into major fisticuffs.
There were four yellow cards in the game with Camborne players being shown three!
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BillHISTORIC BOTTLE MATCH RETURNS TO PENRYN
By Ben Gilby
Penryn Rugby Club will be hosting the latest encounter of the second oldest inter-university rugby match on 20th February when Camborne School of Mines take on the Royal School of Mines once more.
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