Cornish Pirates

Rugby Times Dream Team'
May 13th 2010

This season's 'Rugby Times – Championship Dream Team' has been announced', whereby nominations for the 15 positions have been made by club coaches.

Three Pirates have deservingly and not so surprisingly been selected in the squad, namely skipper and scrum-half Gavin Cattle, No. 8 Blair Cowan, and hooker Dave Ward.

Special mention goes to Gavin Cattle who has made it into the Dream XV for the 3rd time, a clear five votes ahead of his nearest rival. The Rugby Times describes him as being head and shoulders above the other scrum-halves in the division.

Christened 'Captain Fantastic' he provides leadership, experience, has a good pass and is still a threat in his own right.

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Blair Cowan	Dave Ward

Blair Cowan, who has had a tremendous season, never fails to get over the gain line and has scored 14 tries to head the try-scoring list in the Championship alongside Errie Claassens (London Welsh) and Matt Jess (Exeter Chiefs).

As for Dave Ward, he has made a mighty impression in his first year with the Pirates. His work rate is top drawer, and he has the mobility and dynamism to also perform extremely well when has played on occasions at flanker.

 

The full XV is as follows:-

15 Luke Arscott (Bristol),
14 Matt Jess (Exeter Chiefs),
13 Brendan Burke (Bedford Blues
12 Alaifatu Fatialofa (Bristol),
11 Errie Claassens (London Welsh),
10 Myles Dorrian (Bedfofrd Blues),
9 Gavin Cattle (Cornish Pirates)
8 Blair Cowan (Cornish Pirates)
7 James Scaysbrook (Eexter Chiefs)
6 Iain Grieve (Bristol)
5 Roy Winters (Bristol)
4 Matt Corker (London Welsh)
3 Ben Prescott (Rotherham Titans)
2 Dave Ward (Cornish Pirates)
1 Matt Parr (Nottingham).