Ealing v Pirates
By DC
January 24 2025
Ealing Trailfinders v Cornish Pirates
RFU Championship Round 12
Saturday January 25th 2025
Trailfinders Sports Ground
Kick Off 15:00
Live Stream: https://www.youtube.com
Changes for the Pirates in the backs sees Iwan Price-Thomas named at full-back, with Will Trewin moving to the wing, Joe Elderkin will partner Charlie McCaig in the centre and Iwan Jenkins will make his first league start of the season at fly-half.
In the forwards, tight-head prop Alfie Petch has returned on loan from Gloucester, for whom he featured in their Challenge Cup encounter in Bayonne last weekend, and Alfie Bell, a debutant off the bench last week, will partner Fintan Coleman in the second row. Sol Moody is selected at hooker, with Harry Hocking moving to the back row, and ready for debut action as a replacement will be Matt Pritchard, a recent signing from Redruth.
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Cornish Pirates
15 Iwan Price-Thomas 14 Arthur Relton 13 Charlie McCaig
12 Joe Elderkin 11 Will Trewin
10 Iwan Jenkins 9 Dan Hiscocks
1 Billy Young 2 Sol Moody 3 Alfie Petch
4 Alfie Bell 5 Fintan Coleman
6 Alex Everett 7 Harry Hocking
8 Hugh Bokenham (captain).
Replacements
16 Matt Pritchard 17 James French 18 Ollie Andrews
19 Josh King 20 Chris Mills
21 Cam Jones 22 Bruce Houston 23 Robin Wedlake.
Match Officials
Referee: Joe James
AR1: Ian Kiy
AR2: Mike Woods
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Hooker Harry Hocking is selected in the back row with the 2 Redruth loan players on the bench.
We currently have 15 players either out injured, not available on D/R or in the case of the 3 Ealing loan players unable to be selected for this fixture.
After last week's disappointing result at Hartpury it would be nice to get something out of this game.
Either way I'm sure the players will give 100% effort on the pitch.
As P15 says, they will give it 100% and that's all we can ask.
Unfortunately one way traffic with the pirates struggling to deal with Ealing in the contact area which is giving them quick ball to exploit the space out wide.
This was always going to be a difficult game for our depleted squad and so it proved against a ruthless Ealing side.
They dominated the collisions and with quick ball on their synthetic pitch it allowed their talented backline to exploit the space.
Great credit to our players who never gave up and claimed a losing bonus point for their 5 tries.
Hopefully we can get a few more bodies onto the pitch when league action resumes in a few weeks time.