BillThe Phoney War is over! The real meat of the Cornish Pirates’ season is now upon us The Play-Offs. Six games to decide who will progress to the Championship semi-finals, the top two from each of the two pools of four. First up for the Cornish Pirates a trip to the Memorial Ground at Bristol to take on the favourites for promotion to the Premiership.
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BillIt’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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BillA 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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BillNo 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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BillThe Cornish Pirates are going through a pretty tough time at the moment and on Saturday London Welsh heaped more misery on the Cornish side with a 34-10 win at Old Deer Park in the Championship.
It was the Pirates’ third straight loss with the Welsh exiles scoring six tries,
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BillLAUNCESTON, recorded their fifth win from six games on Saturday as they defeated Tynedale 23-17 at Polson Bridge in National League 1. Although out scored on the try front 3 to 2, the Cornish All Blacks can thank the boot of Tony Yapp as he kicked a valuable 13 points.
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BillAt half-time you really thought that the visitors would runaway with the game in the second half as they led 20-5. Nothing of the sort, as Redruth fought back with credit to lose in the end by 17-23, Esher’s relief at just booting the ball off the park at the end when they spurned a penalty chance to deny Redruth any points sums up just how hard a test they were given.
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BillVery much a first game of a tour performance is the best you could describe the British & Irish Lions’ opening win of their 2009 tour of South Africa at an almost deserted Stadium in Rustenburg. For 60 minutes the unthinkable was on the cards an opening match loss against a side that will be the weakest opposition on tour.
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BillFor those in Black & Gold on Saturday afternoon at Plymouth Albion’s splendid Brickfields stadium, it was a day to remember as Cornwall knocked the County Championship kings these past few seasons off their lofty perch. OK granted Devon are not the reigning champions but three wins out of the last five finals is pretty impressive,
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BillCamborne on Trevithick Day is probably not the best time to play your final league game of the season, the weather certainly didn’t help as the Pirates lost to London Welsh 10-8 in a very average game, which will only live in the memory for the sole fact that we said farewell to a good number of the present squad,
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