Exeter Chiefs v Cornish Pirates - Premiership Cup

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Exeter Chiefs

15. Josh Hodge
14. Ben Hammersley
13. Tom Hendrickson
12. Ollie Devoto
11. Tommy Wyatt
10. Will Haydon-Wood
9. Tom Cairns
1. Scott Sio
2. Dan Frost
3. Ehren Painter
4. Rusi Tuima
5. Lewis Pearson
6. Ethan Roots ©
7. Jacques Vermeulen
8. Ross Vintcent

Replacements:

16. Jack Yeandle
17. Billy Keast
18. Josh Iosefa-Scott
19. Jack Dunne
20. Aidon Davis
21. Niall Armstrong
22. Harvey Skinner
23. Joe Hawkins

Cornish Pirates:

15 Kyle Moyle,
14 Will Trewin,
13 Ioan Evans,
12 Joe Elderkin,
11 Arthur Relton,
10 Iwan Jenkins,
9 Ruaridh Dawson;
1 Leftheri Zigiriadis,
2 Morgan Nelson,
3 Marlen Walker,
4 Will Britton,
5 Steele Barker,
6 Alex Everett,
7 Will Gibson,
8 John Stevens (captain)

Replacements:

16 Oli Burrows,
17 Fin Richardson,
18 Jack Andrew,
19 Josh King,
20 Harry Dugmore,
21 Alex Schwarz,
22 Tom Pittman,
23 Dan John

Match Officials

Referee: Simon Harding

Assistant Referees: Dan Jones and Gareth Holsgrove

Weather Forecast cast as at 1200 Friday

Sunny intervals with a gentle breeze from the East

Temperature 21 degrees but will feel like 25 degrees

Low Chance of precipitation

TV Coverage

Not on TV

Usually available to watch on PRTV on Sunday

Strong line up again isn’t it? Will be good to watch the Chiefs playing for Pirates too.
Not as one sided as last week but I’d still be surprised if it wasn’t a heavy score.

Chiefs 58 Pirates 14

Rob has done what we expected, good young team, against good opponents with loans on show. As mentioned should be a win, but Pirates will put up a better fight than last week.

Expect the Pirates will give us more of a match than Bristol and our lineup doesn't look quite as strong this time around.

Chiefs 35 Pirates 10.

Chiefs 62 - 12 Pirates

Ethan Rootes made captain in only his second game for the Chiefs.
Think Chiefs will win but expect Pirates will play with passion and think the score will be 40-17.

Looking forward to this game, should be good entertainment. Chiefs should win again, but not quite the rout of last week.

Chiefs 59 15 Pirates

is Immanuel FW injured?was looking forward to seeing him this season. Ben Hammersley must have impressed people though. Good chiefs win again you would think.

Looking forward to this as unable to go last week.
I think Pirates will give us a game and hoping it’s entertaining……like to think we will be too strong for them but no silly score like last week

Chiefs 42 Pirates 21

Really looking forward to this. Pirates will put up one hell of a fight thats for sure and it will be a much sterner test than last week. This is above all the fixture i have missed the most over the years!

Chief 46 pirates 10

Chiefs 47 - 18 Pirates

Chiefs 49 pirates 22

Chiefs 38 Pirates 22

Chiefs 52 Pirates 15. I think first half may be tight-ish wih us pulling clear in the second half.

Looking forward to a more competitive match than last week, but expect us to be too strong for the Pirates this time.
Chiefs 49 Pirates 14

In Rob we trust.
By the way - cream on first. There's nothing to debate.

I think this may be a close one, so Chiefs 45 Pirates 38

Agree expect a lot more competitive match than last week. Is Capstick injured again ?
Exeter 37 Pirates 20

Chiefs 42 Pirates 10

This will be more of a balanced match up than last weekend.
Expect Chiefs to win but the Pirates will come to SP with tails up after a good performance against Bath.
Chiefs 29 - 19 Pirates



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Chiefs 49 Pirates 18

Chiefs 42 Pirates 15

Brother here this weekend so cannot go. No idea of result really but chiefs side looks strong I hope Innard, Street, Woody and Capstick are not injured. Chiefs 48 pirates 20.

Chiefs 38 - Pirates 12

pirates are no walkover so i predict 32. 21 to the chiefs

At least no one can complain that this isn't a development fixture for Ex, with Iwan Jenkins, Dan John, Arthur Relton and Oli Burrows playing....🤣

Exeter 35 - 17 Pirates

Exeter 38 Pirates 20

Enjoyable game. I thought Sir had a pretty good start, but perhaps lost it towards the end ... at least with lineout calls. I hope Frosty isn't too injured as his pace was missed when he went off. Good work from Rus and worthy MotM and a needless to say it was always exciting to see what Josh and Ben were going to do with a little space. The future's bright!

In Rob we trust.
By the way - cream on first. There's nothing to debate.

Well done to thestokecanon for getting the Chiefs' score correct and within a point of the Pirates' score, and also to Ex58 and ExeterFan for predicting the Chiefs' score. Honourable mentions to those of you who now have 5 points for predicting scores within 1 point of one team or the other.



You may note I've added a little extra jeopardy to previous years' competitions; should two or more players accumulate the same number of points, the player who does so by predicting the outcome of the fewer number of games will be ranked the higher. Not that, in reality, it makes a blind bit of difference since, as I found out last season, you get nothing but bragging rights if you win ............................ and don't forget, no-one likes a bragger

Just to add, Alain le Chief asked after the Bristol game how the points were awarded. I've noticed this week that should you predict a points difference the same as the actual score, you are awarded a bonus point, which ExTeddChief received this week (although you don't seem to get this if you predict the actual scores)!!?? Please don't blame me - our friends on the Saints forum (I believe) were kind enough to give us the scoring model and spreadsheet.

Clearly there’s a downside to using a nickname near the end of the alphabet (as well as failing to submit my prediction…)