Cornwall have named their team for Sunday’s Tamar Cup clash against Devon at St Ives (3pm).

The named XV has five Redruth players, including scrum-half Mark Richards who will captain the side.

He will partner Camborne’s Dave Mankee at half-back.

Cornwall will be aiming to regain the trophy after losing 13-11 to Devon at Okehampton last season.

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It’s been a while since I ‘ve written my blog, much has happened some good and some not so good in the world of Cornish rugby.

The Cornish Pirates are involved this weekend and next with the British & Irish Cup and should they prevail this afternoon against a second-string Exeter Chiefs XV then they will have every chance of progressing to the semi-finals should they defeat Welsh Premeirship side Newport next Sunday,

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Bit of a turn up for the books at Camborne on Sunday afternoon as Birmingham & Solihull Bees picked up a draw in their “home” game against the Cornish Pirates, switched to Cornwall due to the weather conditions in the midlands 31-31. Ben Patston, a thorn in the side of Redruth last season when playing for Cambridge,

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Redruth’s pre-match promoting of this latest Cornish derby centred around the deck of playing cards, but it was the Cornish All Blacks who ended up trumps with Tony Yapp playing a last gasp joker with an ungainly drop-goal, which broke Redruth hearts and gave the Launceston club the league double over their Cornish rivals.

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CORNISH PIRATES 46 – 7 PLYMOUTH ALBION

This was a Christmas Cracker of a game, with the result sending the majority of the 5,654 spectators back home rejoicing. Seven tries scored in a 46-7 stuffing that the fans have waited a long, long time to enjoy.

Whilst full-back Rob Cook continues to enhance his growing reputation amongst the Pirates’

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Rob Cook is fast making a name for himself with the Pirates’ faithful this season. The former Nuneaton player kicked an injury time conversion at Billesley Common to complete the Pirates second half recovery from 19-0 down at half-time to take the spoils 20-19!

It couldn’t have started worse for the Pirates at Moseley as within 30 seconds of the kick-off fly-half Jonny Bentley had a kick charged down at Moseley had an opening try.

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A two week rest for the Cornish Pirates from league action, but no chance of putting up their feet. Instead a new competition to get stuck into with the first couple of rounds of the British & Irish Cup.

Having got off to a flying start last weekend at Camborne against Scottish opponents Gael Force winning 29-8,

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No doubt that the game of the weekend in the southwest was the derby match played at Sandy Park between the unbeaten Exeter Chiefs and the Cornish Pirates in the Championship.

The Devon side reached the half-way mark of the regular season with another win their eleventh over their Cornish rivals winning a hard fought match 22-15.

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I watched two games live this weekend with both matches ending with a one point winning margin for the victorious side.

Sunday’s Championship encounter at Camborne between the Cornish Pirates and the Bedford Blues was a gripping affair, but when the Blues fly-half Myles Dorrian stepped up with just 2 minutes remaining to take a penalty on the 22 in front of the Pirates’

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In the Championship,having struggled with a spate of injuries the Cornish Pirates were this week hit by a flu bug prior to their trip to Rotherham, so in many ways it was perhaps not too surprising that they lost at Clifton Lane 29-20. Former Redruth centre PJ Gidlow came on as a second half replacement for the Titans making his debut for his new side.

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