Spy in the Camp - Pirates

By Frank Stormont & CD
April 10 2009

Well it’s that time of the season again, our annual trip to Camborne. The Pirates are our friendly rivals from ‘over the Tamar’, but it will be Albion and their supporters who will be packing their flags and passports and crossing the Tamar to meet the Pirates on their ground, will it be ‘last one out of Plymouth switch the lights off’ and watch our Camborne here come Albion supporters

 

This Weekend

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Pirates v Albion
Sunday 12 April
K.O. 3 pm

Well it’s that time of the season again, our annual trip to Camborne. The Pirates are our friendly rivals from ‘over the Tamar’, but it will be Albion and their supporters who will be packing their flags and passports and crossing the Tamar to meet the Pirates on their ground, will it be ‘last one out of Plymouth switch the lights off’ and watch our Camborne here come Albion supporters.

The Pirates are one of the most consistent teams over the recent seasons and are currently sitting 6th in the league with 77 point, 3 above Albion who are sitting in 9th with 65 points. The Pirates average gate is 2968, with a maximum of 4913 this season, hopefully the travelling support from Albion will fill the Pirates ground to the gunnels.

The travel club are not running a coach as it was cheaper to travel by train – it is a bank holiday Sunday so please check trains before travelling – or you may have to stay with a friendly Pirate overnight.

Taken from TheTrainLine

Down		Back
Plymouth	Camborne	Camborne	Plymouth
9:05	10:33	17:42	19:15
9:38	11:11	19:21	21:04
10:30	12:14	20:21	21:58
11:18	12:57	21:37*	23:15
12:14	13:47
12:35	14:07

* Sleeper may not take the cheap tickets

Unfortunately there has been no team list posted on the Pirates site, but players to look out for:-

Brian Tuohy, (wing/centre) who played in the Churchill cup for Ireland A team, has 11 tries
Markika Vakacegu, (utility back) is a Fijian international has scored 9 tries
Nick Griffths (scrum half) a former Bees player and Iva Motusaga (flanker) have 7 tries each
Aisea Havili, (wing) from Tonga, who previously played for Worchester has 6 tries
Jimmy Moore (utility back) who has 6 tries, 9 conversions and 4 penalties
Darren Dawiduik (hooker) has 3 tries 
Rhodri McAtee, (wing/scrum half) who has played for the Barbarians has 3 tries
Bertrand Bedes (no 8) has 2 tries 
Ryhs Jones (fly half) who has previously played for Sale and Cardiff Blues, has 18 conversions, 2 drop goals and 24 penalties
Douglas Sanft (fly half), from CRC Madrid has 7 conversions and 5 penalties

The Pirates will be fighting all the way, Albion supporters will be shouting from the terraces and hoping to capture the prize , for Pirates the win over their Devon rivals, for Albion a ‘safe place’ in the league

This is Cornwall perview

CD’s prediction – this is going to be a hard game – Albion need as many points as they can – so same Result as Esher – Albion only 3 point behind – but getting 2 Bonus points – HOPE YOU PROVE ME WRONG ALBION !!

National League One Data

League Table
		P	W	D	L	F	A	dif	TF	TA	BP	Pnts
1	Leeds	28	26	0	2	1164	356	808	162	37	20	124
2	Chiefs	27	22	1	4	967	392	575	137	49	22	112
3	B Blues	28	21	0	7	816	441	375	112	48	17	101
4	Knights	27	19	1	7	803	514	289	96	59	15	93
5	Nott'ham	26	18	0	8	809	438	371	108	48	17	87
6	Pirates	27	15	1	11	683	521	162	87	56	15	77
7	Welsh	26	16	0	10	666	509	157	79	58	13	75
8	Cov	27	13	0	14	581	588	-7	76	76	15	67
9	Albion	27	13	2	12	555	572	-17	61	72	9	65
10	Titans	28	13	1	14	720	748	-28	92	93	11	61
11	Esher	27	12	1	14	622	698	-76	80	91	11	61
12	Moseley	25	10	0	15	634	653	-19	80	92	16	56
13	N Blues	27	4	2	21	360	937	-577	42	129	5	25
14	Tigers	28	4	0	24	392	1150	-758	54	162	8	24
15	Otley	26	3	1	22	365	943	-578	39	129	7	21
16	Man	28	2	0	26	389	1066	-677	50	156	10	18

ADJUSTMENTS

London Welsh -2 points
London Welsh fielded an ineligible player, Ben Thomas, against Rotherham due to a paperwork error.

Nottingham -2 points
Nottingham have had two league points deducted for including an un-registered player in their match squad for the match against Bedford played on 26th October.

Rotherham Titans -4 points
Back row forward Barry Jacobsz effective registration with the RFU expired on 18th Sept 2008 yet the player was included in Rotherham's match squad for 2 matches.

 

Points by type & Discipline Record
Team	Tries	Cons	Con Rate	Pens	Drop goals	Pen try	Yell	Red
Pirates	86/53	51/37	59	42/52	5/2	2/4	11/13	0/1
Albion	60/69	45/40	75	51/42	2/2	1/2	11/17	0/0

This table shows the for and against for each team. eg Tries 74/17 is 74 tries scored and 17 conceded. Con Rate is the percentage tries converted.

Next Fixtures

Saturday 11 April
Coventry	v	London Welsh
Doncaster Knights	v	Esher
Manchester	v	Nottingham
Moseley	v	Bedford Blues
Rotherham Titans	v	Exeter Chiefs
Sedgley Tigers	v	Otley
Sunday 12 April
Cornish Pirates	v	Plymouth Albion
Leeds Carnegie	v	Newbury Blues
Wednesday 15 April
Newbury Blues	v	Nottingham

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Side by side
Gate 2968 avg 4913 max	Gate 3288 avg 6871 max
Form home l l w w w w l w l l l w away w l w w w l l w l w w d w w l	Form home l l w d w w w w w w l l w w away l l l w l w w l l d w l l
Best home game 48 - 5 N Blues Worst away game Chiefs 38 - 7	Best home game 47 - 6 Man Worst away game Leeds 49 - 18
Most points in a match 25 Rhys Jones Pirates 55 - 13 Otley	Most points in a match 21 Kieran Hallett Albion 26 - 25 Nott'ham
Most tries in a match 3 Nick Griffths Moseley 26 - 37 Pirates Brian Tuohy Welsh 23 - 38 Pirates Marka Vakacegu Pirates 20 - 31 Nott'ham	Most tries in a match 2 Matt Hopper Albion 36 - 14 Esher Justin Mensah-Cover Albion 31 - 7 Tigers
Recent results Tigers 27 - 35 Pirates Leeds 33 - 9 Pirates Pirates 7 - 16 Esher Pirates 5 - 6 B Blues N Blues 10 - 39 Pirates Moseley 26 - 37 Pirates	Recent results Esher 31 - 28 Albion Albion 14 - 31 B Blues Welsh 22 - 9 Albion Knights 28 - 23 Albion Tigers 11 - 27 Albion Albion 20 - 33 Titans
TRIES 11 Brian Tuohy 9 Marka Vakacegu 7 Nick Griffths Iva Motusaga 6 Aisea Havili Jimmy Moore 3 Darren Dawiduik Rhodri Macatee Rhodri McAtee 2 Bertrand Beades Bertrand Bedes Paul Devlin Rob Elloway Mark Ireland Chris Morgan Ratu Vacacegu Simon Whating Steve Winn 1 Nick Buckley Mike Burak Peter Cook Blair Cowan Matthew Evans Ed Fairhurst Scott Franklin Rhys Jones Geraint Jones Rhodri McEntee Dan Seal Hendrik Senekal Adryan Winnan	TRIES 6 Matt Hopper Justin Mensah-Cover 5 Arran Cruikshanks Geoff Griffiths 4 Gareth Evans Wayne Sprangle 3 Mike Denbee Keni Fisilau Liam Gibson Ryan Hopkins Tom Jarvis 2 Kieran Hallett Greg Nicholls James Owen Sean-Michael Stephen 1 Ross Allan Alex Davies Jannie Du Toit Scott Ireland Ross Laidlaw Kyle Marriott Martin Rice
Kicking Points Con DG Pen Points Rhys Jones 18 2 24 114 Jimmy Moore 9 - 4 30 Douglous Sanft 7 - 5 29 Tom Luke 3 2 4 24 Geraint Jones 7 - 3 23 Simon Whating 4 1 2 17 Chris Morgan 1 - - 2 Iva Motusaga 1 - - 2 Brian Tuohy 1 - - 2	Kicking Points Con DG Pen Points Kieran Hallett 23 2 27 133 Ross Laidlaw 15 - 12 66 Alex Davies 7 - 12 50
Discipline SinBin Mike Burak Rob Elloway Scott Franklin Ben Gulliver Sam Heard (2) Chris Morgan (2) Iva Motusaga Dan Seal Marka Vakacegu	Discipline SinBin Arthur Brenton Arran Cruikshanks Jannie Du Toit Gareth Evans Keni Fisilau (3) Matt Hopper Tom Jarvis Sean-Michael Stephen (2)

 

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Officials for the day

Referee: Adrian Hartwell
Touch judges: Nigel Higginson, Mark Summerhayes
Assessor: Tony Spreadbury

Name	Mats	Penalty Kicks (3points)	Penalty Tries	Yellow Cards	Red Cards
Adrian Hartwell	16	27 (1.68)	5 (0.31)	14 (0.87)	-
Totals - Refs 32	215	628 (2.92)	32 (0.14)	198 (0.92)	2 (0.009)

Adrian has had his whistle at 16 match in NL1 this season and it will be the 4th time Albion have been under his control and Pirates 3rd. His penalty count is lower than the average with his cards coming out the average number of time but he has given 5 penalty tries, twice the average. 

One PT against us for London Welsh in September and one for Pirates against Tigers in November. So is it our turn???

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