By DC
May 23 2025

Doncaster Knights v Cornish Pirates
RFU Championship Round 21
Saturday May 24th 2025
Castle Park

Kick Off 14:30

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Changes in the Pirates starting line-up from last weekend see Bruce Houston move from fly-half to full-back, with Iwan Jenkins named in the ‘10’ shirt.
Harry Hocking starts at hooker and Tyler Gendall, now aged 30, who in the past made 76 appearances in Pirates’ colours and has been playing for Redruth, is selected at tight-head prop.
22-year-old prop Darragh McSweeney, who arrived at the Mennaye from Munster this week to provide injury cover, is named on the bench.

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Cornish Pirates:.
15 Bruce Houston 14 Robin Wedlake 13 Chester Ribbons
12 Joe Elderkin 11 Matt McNab
10 Iwan Jenkins 9 Dan Hiscocks
1 Billy Young 2 Harry Hocking 3 Tyler Gendall
4 Charlie Rice 5 Josh King 6 Matt Cannon 7 Jack Forsythe
8 Alex Everett (captain).

Replacements:
16 Matt Pritchard 17 Jenson Boughton 18 Darragh McSweeney `
19 Fintan Coleman 20 Tomiwa Agbongbon
21 Will Rigelsford 22 Tom Georgiou 23 Harry Yates.  

Match Officials:
Referee: Hamish Grant

Doncaster Knights v Cornish Pirates

Discussion started by Unofficial Pirates , 23/05/2025 10:53

Unofficial Pirates
23/05/2025 10:53

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*Stalwart
23/05/2025 13:00

No Trewin, guess he's injured. Good team though, but a tough task at Castle Park.

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Pirate15
23/05/2025 15:33

Injuries continue to affect our selection and I can't remember a season where we have had so many loan signings due to injuries particularly in our front 5.
It's testimony to the character within the squad that we're in with a chance of a top 4 finish.
This will be a tough game against a Doncaster side who are unbeaten in 8 games.

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*Stalwart
23/05/2025 18:51

It's actually a ten game run for Donny, so they are in great form. Pirates have been on a brilliant run, too - so it should be close.

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Pirate15
24/05/2025 16:03

Doncaster 32 Pirates 15
A very tough day at the office against a big and experienced Doncaster side who are now unbeaten in 11 games.
We now need to regroup and recover for one last big 80 minutes next week as a top 4 finish is still possible.



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*Stalwart
24/05/2025 18:23

A couple more injuries today. Hope the boys can recover from a very tough afternoon at Doncaster and put in one, final big performance next week.

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wigston pirate
25/05/2025 12:18

Donny were very quick and passing the ball made their chances better than the Pirates. A fair result and hopefully next week will be good encounter to take 4th place.

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