Pirates v Bedford


By DC
October 11 2024

Cornish Pirates  v Bedford Blues
RFU Championship Round 4
Saturday, 12th October, 2024
Mennaye Field Penzance

Kick Off 14:30

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Centre Charlie McCaig, lock Charlie Rice, and flanker Tomiwa Agbongbon make their first league starts for the Pirates.
The inclusion of McCaig means Matt McNab moves out to the wing in place of Robin Wedlake.

Fit again scrum half Cam Jones returns to the starting line-up, whilst on the bench replacement hooker Sol Moody will be ready to make his Championship debut, as will Redruth forward Jack King who has arrived at the Mennaye Field this week on loan.

Cornish Pirates :
15 Will Trewin 14 Matt McNab 13 Charlie McCaig
12 Joe Elderkin 11 Arthur Relton
10 Bruce Houston 9 Cam Jones
1 Billy Keast 2 Morgan Nelson 3 Jay Tyack
4 Matt Cannon 5 Charlie Rice 6 Tomiwa Agbongbon
7 Will Gibson 8 Hugh Bokenham (captain).

Replacements:
16. Sol Moody 17 Billy Young 18 James French
19 Jack King 20 Harry Hocking
21 Dan Hiscocks 22 Iwan Jenkins 23 Iwan Price-Thomas.

Match Officials:
Referee:   Andy Wigley
Assistants:  James Cornell & Kevin Williams

 

 

 

Pirates v Bedford
Posted by: Unofficial Pirates (IP Logged)
Date: 11/10/2024 11:04

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Re: Pirates v Bedford
Posted by: Pirate15 (IP Logged)
Date: 11/10/2024 13:53

A worrying number of injuries in the back row has resulted in a first start for loan signing Tomiwa Agbongbon. We also have 2 hookers and new loan signing Jack King on the bench.
This will be a tough game against a very well coached and dangerous Bedford side.

Re: Pirates v Bedford
Posted by: Pirate15 (IP Logged)
Date: 12/10/2024 17:03

A very frustrating afternoon as the pirates lost to the last play of the game for the 2nd time this season.
Our lack of experience showed at times as unforced errors immediately after scoring gave Bedford easy opportunities to put us under pressure.
We failed to get control of the game and this allowed a dangerous Bedford side to dominate periods of play.
We are currently 10th in the league so we will need to regroup and show a lot of character away to Cambridge next week.



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Re: Pirates v Bedford
Posted by: *Stalwart (IP Logged)
Date: 12/10/2024 19:24

Fine margins again. Lots of positives, but problems at line out time and a few errors at crucial moments. Unlucky to lose the last two home games with the last play, but we will improve as new guys bed in and they have more time to gel.

Re: Pirates v Bedford
Posted by: TryBlues (IP Logged)
Date: 12/10/2024 19:49

As a Blues fan I thought Pirates did well to stay in the game. Blues should have been much further ahead at half time, having gifted you a try in 2 mins.

2nd half you did better at disrupting the lineout and stopped our attack more, as you threatened to beat us. It was only the last moment we managed to get over the line, which I thought we deserved over the 80 mins.

You have had a couple of tough home games, so I am sure you will start the rise up the league.

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