Cornish Pirates

Tyrone Holmes, a South African-born tearaway flanker, has been confirmed as the Cornish Pirates last signing to complete the club's 32-man squad.

On leaving the RPC, Tyrone spent five months with Northampton Saints, where he enjoyed learning from some of the game's 'greats', such as Carlos Spencer, Bruce Reihana and Ben Cohen. However, when the Saints were relegated for a season into National One they changed their structure and consequently most of their Academy players were cut.

South African lock forward Roderick Labuschagne is the latest Pirates signing. At 29 years of age, he joins from successful Italian 'Super 10' side Benetton Treviso

Described as being an aggressive performer on the field, he is a big hitter who works hard in the loose and is very effective at rucks

At 6' 6" tall and weighing in at 18 stones 2lbs, he is the third new lock forward to have put pen to paper.

Earlier this month Rob Elloway played for Germany in the European Nations Cup Division One competition, known as Six Nations 'B', which is the premier competition for second tier nations in Europe.

Rob, who played international rugby for England 18 Group at youth level, made his debut for Germany when coming off the bench to play in the unaccustomed position of flanker.

WE advised last week that more signings would be announced to add to the ten names already released, and true to word the names of another two players have now been confirmed.

Joining from Sale Sharks is former Bath and Northampton Saints 23 year old hooker Dave Ward.

From Nuneaton comes 25 year old full-back/fly-half Rob Cook