Friday 18th. May, 2007

A large gathering attended the Pirates 2nd XV's Annual Awards Evening held at the Westholme" clubhouse, the event combined this year with annual annual award presentations also being made to the Colts and Under 16 sections.

The Pirates 2nd XV have played 30 games during the past season, winning 20, drawing 2, and losing 8, the side finishing a successful second in Cornwall's 2nd & 3rd XV Merit Table One. In total, 70 players represented the team during the year.

Robin Turner, Chairman of the Penzance & Newlyn RFC, presented the awards, with special mention made to young back-rower Matt Rashleigh who picked up the Player of the Year and Most Improved Player trophies. Another player in his first year out of the Colts, Tom McFadden, also picked the Best Back award, whilst a stalwart senior member of the side, who has done so much to resurrect the team, Scott Dugdale, was a deserved Sportsman of the Year.

The complete list of 2nd XV award winners was as follows:-

Player of the Year - Matt Rashleigh
Best Forward - Matt Pascoe
Best Back - Tom McFadden
Most Improved Player - Matt Rashleigh
Sportsman of the Year - Scott Dugdale
Social Cup - Danny Hewett.
A merit tie for 100 games was presented Andrew Snell, while Andrew Gwennap and Wayne Davey each received blazer badges for having played 50 games for the Pirates.

On Thurdsday 7th. June at 7pm, the team will be meeting for a game of touch, BBQ and team meeting at which new and present players are welcome.

The Pirates 2nd XV aims to play a number of extra games on Wednesday evenings throughout the 2007-08 season.

Match Reports

Redruth Development XV 42 Pirates 2nds 5
Saturday 31st. March, 2007

Playing away against a very strong 'Reds' Development side, the Pirates competed pretty well for much of the match. Indeed, the score was only 12-5 at half-time, the home team only running away with the game in the last quarter. The Pirates one try in the match was scored by wing Matthew Hanley.

Pirates - B. Quick, E. Skewes, T. McFadden, A. Snell, M. Hanley, N. Glinski, A. Weston, W. Davey, A Hands, S. Dugdale, D. Butterworth, M. Greig, M. Rashleigh, L. Williams, D. Lugg.
Replacements (all used) - S. Kent, K. Terry, D. Hewett, K. Walsh, N. Hosking.

The Pirates 2nds have two home games over the Easter, playing Camborne Reserves on Good Friday and Imperial Medicals on Saturday. Both games kick-off at 3p.m

Hayle 2nds 5 Pirates 2nds 75
Saturday 24th. March, 2007

Playing at an earlier time of 1pm, the Pirates were clearly in a rush to both score plenty of points and then travel the short distance to Camborne to support their first team against Plymouth Albion.

The amateur Pirates second string were in sensational form, scoring thirteen tries against Hayle, including hat-tricks for full-back Matthew Hanley and wing Kevin Walsh.

Two players from the Pirates Colts, Ben Taylor and Craig Stevens, also guested and acquitted themselves very well indeed.

Pirates scorers - tries: Matthew Hanley (3), Kevin Walsh (3), Tom McFadden (2), Danny Hewett, Ashley Weston, Tony Hand, Dave Lawrence, Matt Rashleigh. Centre Andrew Snell kicked five conversions.

Team - M. Hanley, K. Walsh, T. McFadden, A. Snell, D. Hewett, A. Weston, N. Hosking, T. Ball, T. Hand, J. McLeod, A. Ball, D. Lawrence ©, M. Rashleigh, B. Taylor, D. Lugg.
Replacements (all used) - T. Williams, I. Butterworth, C. Stevens, S. Dugdale.

Pirates 2nds 22 Helston 13
Saturday 17th. March, 2007

The Pirates side took on Helston in a friendly at the Mennaye Field on Saturday, scoring four tries in the match through lock Mike Grieg, fly-half Ashley Weston, centre Tom McFadden, and wing Ed Skewes, one of which was converted by Andrew Snell.

In an open game, the score could well have been a little closer, praise due prop Treve Williams and replacement Mitch Holmes for their tackling efforts on the day.

Pirates - B. Quick, E. Skewes, T. McFadden, A. Snell, K. Walsh, A. Weston, N. Hosking, T. Ball, M. Pascoe, W. Davey, M. Rashleigh, M. Grieg, T. Williams, I. James, J. Gwennap.

Replacements (all used) - L. Williams, J. McLoud, M. Holmes, M. Harvey, S. Dugdale, N. Rees, D,. Hewitt.

Pirates 2nds 48 Falmouth 2nds 0
Saturday 3rd. March, 2007

This friendly match played at the Mennaye proved a one-sided affair, the Pirates mix of experience and youth conjuring up eight tries in the match without reply.

Lock Matt Uren, in his first year out of the Colts, played very well, whilst second half replacements Nathan Hosking and Matt Hanley also impressed, Hanley's running in open play outstanding.

Scorers
Tries: Davey (2), Skewes (2), Ball, Weston, Glinski, McFadden; cons: Glinski (4).

Pirates
S. Randall, E. Skewes, T. McFadden, A. Snell, K. Walsh, N. Glinski, A. Weston, T. Ball, M. Pascoe, W. Davey, M. Uren, M. Greig, J. Gwennap, I. James, J. Thomas.
Replacements (all used) - S. Dugdale, L. Williams, M. Rashleigh, J. McLeod, M. Hanley, N. Hosking, D. Lugg

St. Mary's College OBs 34 Pirates 2nds 24
Saturday 24th. February, 2007

A Saturday morning kick-off against St. Mary's College Old Boys made a good start to a weekend in London. It was fifteen against fourteen, the Pirates travelling one player short, but putting up a good performance nonetheless. Included in their line-up was Pirate 'exile' Jamie Eddy.

The match was refereed by Cornish rugby stalwart Des Thomas, whose son Dave played for the OBs side along with other former Pirates Colts players, brothers Peter and Robert Whyte.

Tries for the Pirates were scored by hooker Ian James, lock Treve Williams, full-back Ed Skewes, and fly-half Scott Randall who also landed two conversions.

Following the game the team went to 'The Stoop' to watch Harlequins play Bristol in the Premiership, the rest of the weekend then developing into an inevitable blur!

Pirates - Ed Skewes, Tom McFadden, Martin Bodilly, Scott Dugdale, Scott Randall, Nick Rees, Lee Williams, Matt Rashleigh, Jamie Eddy, Treve Williams, Dave Lawrence, Mark Blewett, Ian James, Zac Scott.

Pirates 2nds 44 St. Just 7
Saturday 3rd. February, 2007

This was clearly a comfortable win for the Pirates, the game memorable for a hat-trick scored by wing Danny Hewett and an appearance from the bench for veteran flanker and 'Marine' Tony Hands, a former 'Pirate' who has played for Withecombe in recent years.

St. Just arrived at the Mennaye a little short of playing personnel, grateful to James McLoud and Ian Butterworth for switching sides to guest for them.

Scorers:-
Pirates 2nds - tries: Danny Hewitt (3), Dave Lawrence (2), Matt Rashleigh, Matt Pascoe, Tom Ball; cons: Andrew Snell, Dave Lawrence.

St. Just - try: Richard Grose; con: Steve Walsh.

Pirates 2nds - Scott Dugdale, Danny Hewett, Tom McFadden, Wayne Davey ©, Matt Uren, Andrew Snell, Ashley Weston, Tom Ball, Matt Pascoe, Matt Rashleigh, Rob Davies, Mike Greig, Julian Gwennap, Ian James, John Thomas.
Replacements (all used) - Tony Hands, Dave Lawrence, Martin Bodilly.

Veor 19 Pirates 2nds 36
Saturday 20th. January

This was another entertaining 'friendly' encounter, the visitors to Wheal Gerry scoring six tries in the match. The front-row played very well indeed, whilst praise was due teenagers Matt Rashleigh (normally a back-rower) and Tom McFadden (normally a centre), for volunteering, some would say press-ganged, to form the second-row pairing.

Scorers - tries: Wayne davey (2), Ashley Weston, Nathan Glinski, Steve Kent, Ed Skewes; cons: Nathan Glinski (3).

Pirates - Ed Skewes, Simon james, Steve Kent, Andrew Snell, Mark Osaborne, Nathan Glinski, Ashley Weston, Wayne Davey, Matt Pascoe, Scott Dugdale, Tom Mcfadden, Matt Rashleigh, Mark Blewett, Lee Williams, Danny Lugg.

Perranporth 2nds 44 - Pirates 22nds 99
Sat 18th November

Played at the Droop ground last Saturday, this was not quite your normal game of rugby, though all involved thoroughly enjoyed participating in this 'friendly' affair.

The Pirates had fifteen players, and Perranporth just eleven, though some sporting juggling around of numbers helped the home side's cause - to a degree. Wayne Davey scored four tries for the Pirates and then three for Perranporth when he switched sides, while there was surely some form of Pirates points scoring record achieved by Nathan Glinski whose personal points tally of 39 came from three tries and twelve conversions. Mark Osborne also scored two tries when playing for Perranporth.

Pirate scorers were: tries: W. Davey (4), N. Glinski (3), A. Gwennap (2), M. Pascoe (2), J. Thomas, J. Gwennap, M. Rashleigh, E. Skewes; cons: N. Glinski (12).

Pirates involved playing for the Pirates, Perranporth, or at different times both, were: J. Thomas, A. Gwennap, J. Gwennap, R. Davies, M. Greig, M. Pascoe, S. Butterworth, W. Davey, M. Rashleigh, A. Snell, E. Skewes, N. Glinski, S. Dugdale, M. Osborne, M. Davis.

Pirates 2nds 22 - St. Just 3
30th. December, 2006

Nearing the end of an enjoyable year of rugby the Pirates won this 'derby' friendly played in the mud on the Mennaye Nurseries field.

Pirates 2nds - Ryan Forrester, Danny Hewett, Nick Rees, Andrew Snell, Kevin Walsh, Ben Quick, Dave Pascoe, Wayne Davey, Matt Pascoe, Darren Hicks, Matt Nicholas, Dave Lawrence, John Thomas, Ian James, Mark Blewett.
Replacements (all used) - Scott Dugdale, Treve Williams, Daniel Lugg, Andrew Gwennap, Matt Rashleigh, Robert Davies, Gavin Tackle, Tom McFadden

Scorers:-

Pirates 2nd
Tries: Dave Lawrence, Matt Pascoe, Wayne Davey
Ccons: Andrew Snell (2); pen: Andrew Snell.

St. Just - pen: Simon Barnes.

Pirates 2nds 12 - Brooksy's Barbarians 12
31st. December, 2006

This fun rugby fundraiser played on a very muddy Mennaye Field looked to involve 50 players, the final number number actually involving just one less after Rugby Tackle's Pete Hendrickson unfortunately fell lame in the pre-match warm up.
Despite the conditions some fine rugby was played, a draw a fair result in a pretty competitive contest which heled raise over £200 for MacMillan Cancer Relief.
Scorers:-
Pirates 2nds - tries: Ben Quick, Ollie Lambert; con: Nathan Glinski.
Brooksy's Barbarians - tries: Sam Heath, Anthony Stevenson; con: James Trezise.

Pirates 2nds
Ben Quick, Ryan Forrester, Des O'Cobnnell, Andrew Snell, Kevin Walsh, Nathan Glinski, Dave Pascoe, Wayne Davey, Scott Dugdale, Matt Pascoe, Dave Lawrence, Robert Davies, Julian Gwennap, Andrew Gwennap, Treve 'Tank' Williams.
Replacements (all used) - Ian James, Matt Nicholas, Christian Hosking, Will Baker, Rob White, Daniel Bateman, Martin Bodilly, Ollie Lambert, James Maddern, Mark Thomas, Ashley Weston, Patrick Harvey.

Brooksy's Barbarians
Nick George, Paul Quayle, Richard Harris, Liam Kearey. Peter Lugg, James Trezise, Blaine Kearey, Anthony Stevenson, Micky Ringwood, Darryl Curnow, Sam Heath, Cullam Osborne, Daniel Lugg, Neil Turner, Rob Williams.
Replacements (all used) - Nicky Brooks, Dave Bowden, Chris Murley, Dave Thomas, Steve Walsh, Kevin Osborne, Shaun George.

Referee - Des Thomas.

Helston 2nds 0 - Pirates 2nds 69
16th. December, 2006

This was a rather one-sided contest, the visiting Pirates proving too strong for a game but overwhelmed Helston second string. In outstanding form for the Pirates was fly-half Nathan Glinski who crossed for two of the 11 tries scored in the match, besides also kicking seven conversions.

One 'Pirate' rolling back the years was replacement Nicky Brooks, who celebrated his twenty minutes cameo performance with a try.

Scorers:-
tries: Glinski (2), Gwennap (2), Davey, Quick, Snell, McFadden, Dugdale, Kent, Brooks; cons: Glinski (7).

Pirates 2nds:
Tom McFadden, Mark Osborne, Andrew Snell, Mitchell Holmes, Danny Hewett, Nathan Glinski, Ben Quick, Wayne Davey (c), Andrew Gwennap, Matt Rashleigh, Adam Anderson, Dave Lawrence, Mark Blewett, Ian James, Daniel Lugg.

Replacements (all used) - John Thomas, Scott Dugdale, Steve Kent, Darren Hicks, Des O'Connell, Nicky Brooks, Ollie Pryer.

Pirates 2nds 75 Hayle 2nds 0
9th. December, 2006

The Pirates proved somewhat too strong for their opponents in a one-sided match played at the Mennaye Field last Saturday.

Twelve tries were scored in the 'friendly' affair, including a hat-trick for No. 8 Wayne Davey. Former Mounts Bay player Richard Sharp came on as a replacement, a welcome chance for the commando to play some rugby at home before leaving on a tour of duty to Afghanistan.

Scorers: - tries: W. Davey (3), D. Hewett (2), D. Fisher (2), J. Gwennap, M. Micholas, T. McFadden, S. Dugdale, M. Osborne; cons: N. Glinski (3), A. Snell (3); drop goal: N. Glinski.

Pirates 2nds - Scott Dugdale, Dan Fisher, Ben Quick, Tom McFadden, Danny Hewett, Nathan Glinski, Gavin Tackle, Wayne Davey, Matt Pascoe, Matt Rashleigh, Rob Davies, Matt Nicholas, Julian Gwennap, Ian James, Treve Williams.

Replacements (all used) - John Thomas, Darren Hicks, Ollie Pryer, Richard Sharp, Andrew Snell, Mark Osborne, Ben Gibson.

Pirates 2nds 17 - Launceston 3rds 31
2nd. December, 2006

This match, played on the Mennaye Nurseries field, was another closely fought Merit Table contest.

That 'Lanson' deserved to win, there was no doubt, but the Pirates performed ably enough with one of three tries a particularly fine effort scored by Ian 'Jumbo' James. Showing a surprising turn of speed, including a side step along the way, the hooker ran thirty metres to score following a line-out.

Other try-scorers were prop Treve 'Tank' Williams and speedy centre Richard Harris. Full-back Anthony Stevenson kicked the one conversion

Pirates - Anthony Stevenson, Dan Fisher, Tom McFadden, Richard Harris, Scott Dugdale, Nathan Glinski, Gavin Tackle, Matt Pascoe, Matt Rashleigh, Ian Butterworth, Matt Nicholas, Mike Grieg, Mark Blewett, Ian James, Treve Williams (c).

Replacements - John Thomas, Julian Gwennap, Andrew Gwennap, Rob Davies, Ben Gibson.

Camborne 2nds 18 - Pirates 2nds 10
25th. November, 2006

This was another closely contested Merit Table game, the "Cherry & Whites" proving very able opponents. Lock Mike Grieg was outstanding in the Pirates eight, whilst Andrew Snell, playing out of position at scrum-half, acquitted himself very well. Indeed, he crossed the line for one of the two tries scored by the Pirates in the match, the other coming from powerhouse prop Treve 'Tank' Williams.

Pirates - Ed Skewes, Danny Hewett, Anthony Stevenson, Tom McFadden, Kevin Walsh, Nathan Glinski, Andrew Snell, Tom Ball, Matt Pascoe, Wayne Davey, Ian Butterworth, Mike Grieg, Treve Williams, Ian "Jumbo" James, Julian Gwennap. Replacements (all used) - Scott Dugdale, John Thomas, Andrew Gwennap, Matt Rashleigh.

Pirates 2nds 31 Camborne 3rds 19 - 11th. November, 2006

Playing this 'friendly' at the Mennaye Field, the Pirates were deservedly victorious in an entertaining game of rugby football.

Included in their line-up was centre 'Mitch' Holmes, a member of the club's successful Colts team a few years back, who made a welcome return.

Scorers - tries: Treve Williams, Dave Lawrence, Tom McFadden, Ed Skewes, Dan Fisher; cons: Nathan Glinski (3).

Team - Ed Skewes, Kevin Walsh, Mitchell Holmas, Nick Rees, Tom McFadden, Nathan Glinski, Ben Quick, Tom Ball, Matt Pascoe, Julian Gwennap, Dave Lawrence, Rob Davies, Treve 'Tank' Williams, Ian James, Mark Blewett.

Replacements (all used) - Andrew Snell, John Thomas, Wayne Davey, Mike Greig, Ian Butterworth, Dan Fish, Scott Randall.