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Season 2007/08 - Rhodri McAtee - Scrum Half/Wing/Fullback
Rhodri McAtee
Harris Begley Ltd
  
Nickname Rodeo
DoB 2.8.84
Status Single
Place of Birth Newport, Wales
Nationality Welsh
Height 5’  10”
Weight 12st 12lbs
Position Scrum half/wing/fullback
Previous Club/s Worcester, Camberley
Representative Honours Eng 18, 19
Wales 21, 7’s

Joining us back in the summer of 2004, a playing colleague at Worcester who had also joined the Pirates just a few weeks earlier, Duncan Murray, said "this lad will be a crowd favourite", and he was right!

 

In our very first home league game he wasted no time in showing his ability in the match against Bristol, raising an already heightened start of the season pulse to set up a try for Kevin James at the Newlyn gate corner. That game was lost 20-28, but his presence in whatever position selected has entertained and helped us to a good number of wins since.

A magician on the rugby field, Rhodri will drift in and out of space seemingly at the speed of light, and is someone capable of scoring tries that others can only dream of.

Selection for Wales U21s in 2005-06 was a highlight, as has been playing for Wales in the IRB Sevens. However, his most memorable experience was competing in the Commonwealth Games held in Melbourne as a member of the Wales Sevens team. It is something he'll never forget, and despite missing the Plate competition final with a 'dead leg', he still finished the tournament as the joint top Welsh scorer.

Something of a character, Rhodri, who was also a talented athlete and cricketer in his teenage years, has settled well in Cornwall, and still tender in years it is likely that we'll witness many dollops yet of the flair and entertainment he brings to enrich our wonderful game.

His dazzling displays saw him score 14 league tries in the 2006-07 season, plus selection in the National One Dream XV.

Club honours include being our 'Most Improved Player 2005', and winning the 'Monckton Cup for Achievement' and the 'Roger Pascoe Cup' (as the 'Supporters Player of the Season') in 2006.

 

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