Doncaster Knights v Cornish Pirates


By DC
January 30 2026

Doncaster Knights v Cornish Pirates
Rugby Champ Round 15
Saturday January 31st 2026
Castle Park

Kick Off 14:30

Live Stream https://www.clubbertv.co.uk

There is one change in the Pirates starting XV from the one that ran out last weekend against Ampthill. Milo Hallam has been selected to partner Josh King in the second row following injury to Buster’ Rice

On the bench there are four changes. Morgan Nelson is named as replacement hooker, whilst prop James French and Aussie duo Rory Suttor and Luke Ratcliff will be keen to see action.

Cornish Pirates Match Preview https://cornish-pirates.com

Cornish Pirates:.
15  Iwan Price-Thomas 14 Arthur Relton 13 Chester Ribbons
12 Joe Elderkin 11 Matty Ward
10 Arwel Robson 9 Dan Hiscocks
1 Alessandro Heaney 2 Sol Moody 3 Alfie Petch
4 Milo Hallam 5 Josh King 6 Alex Everett (captain) 7 Jack Forsythe
8 Tomi Agbongbon

Replacements:
16.Matt Pritchard 17 Billy Young 18 James French
19 Rory Suttor 20 Luke Ratcliff
21 Will Rigelsford 22 Louie Sinclair 23 Ben Cambriani.

Match Officials:
Referee: Ian Tempest
Assistants: Nikki O’Donnell & Greg Dawson

 

 

 

Doncaster Knights v Cornish Pirates
Posted by: Unofficial Pirates (IP Logged)
Date: 30/01/2026 11:50

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Re: Doncaster Knights v Cornish Pirates
Posted by: Pirate15 (IP Logged)
Date: 30/01/2026 13:57

This is always a tough fixture against a Doncaster side who will be keen to get back to winning ways after last week's draw with Cambridge.
We will miss Charlie Rice in the 2nd row who is having a great season.
It's unfortunate timing as Alfie Bell has been recalled by Exeter and is on the bench for tomorrow's premiership cup match.
Hopefully the spirit in the squad is high after last week's performance and we can get the win.

Re: Doncaster Knights v Cornish Pirates
Posted by: Pirate15 (IP Logged)
Date: 31/01/2026 16:04

Doncaster 44 Pirates 12
A very embarrassing defeat on the road for the pirates despite scoring a converted try in the first minute.
Doncaster seemed to cut us wide open whenever they moved the ball at pace across their backline even from their own goal line.
We need a big reaction from the squad ahead of next week's visit of London Scottish.

Re: Doncaster Knights v Cornish Pirates
Posted by: welshpirate (IP Logged)
Date: 31/01/2026 16:56

For a professional team, it's just not acceptable to get pumped like this. Shipping 40 points plus, every away game since December. Very,very disappointing.

Re: Doncaster Knights v Cornish Pirates
Posted by: *Stalwart (IP Logged)
Date: 31/01/2026 17:26

That's a shocker, didn't see that coming.

Re: Doncaster Knights v Cornish Pirates
Posted by: piratelover (IP Logged)
Date: 31/01/2026 23:29

Really disappointing. Unfortunately too many poor performances this season. With the budget, you don’t expect wins every week, but a degree of fight would be nice and this seems to be lacking in spades when on the road.

Re: Doncaster Knights v Cornish Pirates
Posted by: cornishbob (IP Logged)
Date: 01/02/2026 14:13

Disjointed, seems when we click we are as good as most in the league but when we don't we look very ordinary, some might say it was a bad day at the office, we'll struggle to make the top six at this rate!!! I'm sure the lads played their hearts out and gave 110% but they weren't on the same page today. That said Donny played well and closed us down easily, lessons learned I hope and any injuries are minor.

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