London Scottish v Cornish Pirates RFU Championship Round 17 Saturday March 18th 2023 The RAG.
Kick Off 15:00
There are several changes in the Pirates starting line-up from the one that ran out against Coventry last week.
In the absence of injured skipper John Stevens, centre Rory Parata will captain the side whilst Jarrard Hayler has his first league start, playing at number 8.
Will Trewin and a fit-again Will Britton are selected in place of Wing Tommy Wyatt and lock Cory Teague, who are needed by Exeter Chiefs who play London Irish away on Sunday in the final of the Premiership Cup.
Joe Elderkin is named at inside centre with Harry Bazalgette at fly-half and Harvey Beaton at tight-head prop.
20-year-old Cornishman Ben Grubb - who is dual-registered with Exeter Chiefs - is a new name on the bench and will provide backrow cover.
Cornish Pirates : 15 AJ Cant, 14 Arthur Relton, 13 Rory Parata (C) 12 Joe Elderkin, 11 Will Trewin 10 Harry Bazalgette, 9 Alex Schwarz 1 Marlen Walker, 2 Will Crane, 3 Harvey Beaton 4 Steele Barker, 5 Will Britton, 6 Alex Everett 7 Will Gibson, 8 Jarrard Hayler
Replacements: 16 Morgan Nelson, 17 Hayden King, 18 Matt Johnson 19 Olly Adkins, 20 Ben Grubb 21 Ruaridh Dawson, 22 Carwyn Penny, 23 Garyn Smith
Scottish v Pirates
Posted by: Unofficial Pirates (IP Logged)
Date: 17/03/2023 15:54
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London Scottish will be tougher opponents than their league position would suggest.
We are missing a number of our D/R players from Exeter and a few of our own players have picked up injuries over the last couple of weeks stretching our playing resources to the limit.
Hopefully our confidence from the last two wins in the league will stand us in good stead and we can get the win.
A good win as we were made to work hard for the points against opponents who had nothing to lose.
Slightly disappointed that having established a two score lead we quickly put ourselves back under pressure by conceding a score shortly afterwards.
Thankfully we took our opportunities to put points on the board when it mattered.
We are now 5th in the table.
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 2023:03:18:18:05:03 by Pirate15.
Just relieved we got the win and the 5 points - a rare thing for us at the RAG. When you consider who wasn't playing for us today that's a pretty good outcome. Bazalgette's kicking was brilliant and made the difference in the end.
After reading the match report and how disrupted our training has been this week due to injuries and lack of other players this was a good win away from home.
Scottish also had a number of players from harlequins in their squad.
It’s a farce when their team is nowhere near an actual London Scottish team. On a different week it may have been a genuine Scottish team. Presumably there is no limit to the number of loan players allowed in a game?
Pleased we came away with a win plus BP. Was expecting a difficult game and with the amount mentioned playing from the Quins Pirates put on a good show. Next week will bit different again against Ealing but, things can happen.
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