Cornish Pirates

Cornish Pirates V Nottingham
Sunday October 28th Kick Off 2:00pm

For the Cornish Pirates first 2pm kick-off of the season, they welcome the Merry Men from Nottingham, the 'Green & Whites', to the Recreation Ground, Camborne, on Sunday.

It's a match between the fourth and fifth placed teams in National Division One, with surely another closely fought contest all but guaranteed.

Nottingham have named a strong line-up, which includes former 'Pirate' Tom Barlow at fly-half, their leading points scorer both last season and to date in this. At inside centre is Alex Dodge, son of former England captain Paul Dodge, whilst full-back Rohaan Nirmalendran, who topped their try-scoring list in 2006-07, is one to keep an eye on.

Kiwi blind-side flanker Craig Hammond skippers their side, part of a formidable back-row which includes former Leicester 'Tiger' Dan Montagu at No. 8, and ex 'Harlequin' Luke Sherriff, the second top try-scorer in the league this term, on the open-side.

As for the Cornish Pirates, the side shows just one change in the starting line-up from the team that narrowly beat Bedford Blues in a mightily tough encounter played at Camborne last Sunday. Rhodri McAtee comes in on the wing for an injured Brian Tuohy, with a fit again Ali Koko taking Rhodri's place on the bench.

Tony Spreadbury, who refereed the Pirates pre-season friendly against Leicester Tigers, before taking charge of the opening game in the Rugby World Cup, makes a quick and welcome return to officiate once more at at the 'Rec'.

Fly-half Jimmy Moore netted two early penalties during the last encounter in march 2007

Cornish Pirates
Ollie Thomas, James Moore, Paul Devlin, Nick Buckley, Rhodri McAtee, Gareth Steenson, Ed Fairhurst
Tim Cowley (capt), Iva Motusaga, Chris Cracknell, Bruce Cumming, Joe Beardshaw, Dan Seal,
Rob Elloway, Alan Paver.

Replacements
Darren Dawidiuk, Peter Cook, Sam Heard, Scott Hobson, Matt Evans, Richard Bolt, Ali Koko.

Nottingham
Rohaan Nirmalendran, Josh Kay, Matt Smith, Alex Dodge, Andy Savage, Tom Barlow, Tim Usasz
Dan Montagu, Luke Sherriff, Craig Hammond (capt), Nic Rouse, Sam Raven, Nigel Hall
Joe Duffey, Matt Parr.

Replacements
Ryan Hopkins, Peter Wilcox, Tim Stannard, David Wilks, Chris Pilgrim, Ben Thompson, Greig Tonks.

Referee - Tony Spreadbury (RFU)

Nick Williams & Kevin Obern

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