Cornish Pirates v Doncaster Knights


By DC
December 1 2023

Cornish Pirates v Doncaster Knights
RFU Championship Round 6
Sunday December 3rd 2023
Mennaye Field Penzance

Kick Off 14:30

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Just a few changes in the starting XV this week
Fit again Kyle Moyle returns at full-back with Will Trewin moving to the wing, whilst in the centre Tom Georgiou is named to make his first league start for the Pirates.

Cornish Pirates :
5 Kyle Moyle 14 Will Trewin 13 Joe Elderkin
12 Tom Georgiou 11 Matt McNab
10 Bruce Houston 9 Alex Schwarz
1 Lefty Zigiriadis 2 Morgan Nelson 3 Matt Johnson
4 Hugh Bokenham 5 Steele Barker 6 Alex Everett
7 John Stevens (captain) 8 Ben Grubb.

Replacements:  
16 Rhys Williams 17 Marlen Walker 18 Finn Richardson
19 Charlie Rice 20 Will Gibson
21 Ruaridh Dawson 22 Iwan Jenkins 23 Frankie Nowell

Match Officials
Referee: Joe James
AR1: Veryan Boswowan
AR2: Mike Woods

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Cornish Pirates v Doncaster Knights
Posted by: Unofficial Pirates (IP Logged)
Date: 01/12/2023 12:30

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Re: Cornish Pirates v Doncaster Knights
Posted by: *Stalwart (IP Logged)
Date: 01/12/2023 14:49

Great to see Moyler back and Marlen on the bench.

Re: Cornish Pirates v Doncaster Knights
Posted by: Pirate15 (IP Logged)
Date: 01/12/2023 18:39

This will be a big challenge for our young squad but I'm sure they will give their all and any win would be a great result against Doncaster who are currently 2nd in the league.
A warm welcome to 2nd row Charlie Rice who's on loan from Bristol Bears.

Re: Cornish Pirates v Doncaster Knights
Posted by: cornishbob (IP Logged)
Date: 03/12/2023 16:29

A deserved win for Donny I feel. We were far too slow out the blocks. No excuses but Donny qame management was far better than ours and we fell foul of sir too many times. I did however think that Donny deliberately slowed the game down once they realised 'sir' was being lenient!! Never mind lads we grow with every game, no complaints at the effort put in by any of the boys.

Re: Cornish Pirates v Doncaster Knights
Posted by: Pirate15 (IP Logged)
Date: 03/12/2023 16:50

The pirates never really recovered from a disastrous start when we conceded 2 tries inside the opening 10 minutes.
A number of unforced errors, discipline and poor defence around the breakdown didn't help our cause.
Fair play to Doncaster who made their physical size count coupled with good game management to run out worthy winners.
A big learning curve for our young players to understand that we need to be on top of our game from the first to the last minute.



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 2023:12:04:08:45:44 by Pirate15.

Re: Cornish Pirates v Doncaster Knights
Posted by: *Stalwart (IP Logged)
Date: 03/12/2023 21:58

Well summed up by P15. It was good, though, that the boys kept going and managed to get the losing BP at the death.

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