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BBC News
3 days ago
- General
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Long-serving winger Wedlake to leave Cornish Pirates
Cornish Pirates winger Robin Wedlake is to leave the club at the end of the 30-year-old has scored 46 tries in 120 appearances during two spells at the Mennaye. The former Plymouth Albion player left the club in the summer of 2023 to join then-Championship champions Jersey Reds, but re-joined Pirates later that year after the island side folded "After seven incredible seasons with the Cornish Pirates, I've made the difficult decision to move on and embrace a new chapter in my life and career," Wedlake told the club website. "Representing this club has been a great privilege – both on and off the field."I'm immensely proud of what we've achieved over the years and deeply grateful to both Gavin (Cattle) and Alan (Paver), staff, team-mates, and most of all, the supporters, who have made my time in Penzance so special. "The passion and unwavering support of the Pirates family will always stay with me."Joint head coach Gavin Cattle said: "Robin has been a very good servant to the club who, as a big and athletic physical specimen, has scored some outstanding tries in a Pirates shirt."Also, a good man off the field, we sincerely thank him for his contributions." The news comes as young Cornish forwards Milo Hallam and Barnaby Elderkin have both agreed deals to stay at the club next has played twice this season while Elderkin made his debut in the Premiership Rugby Cup.
BBC News
20-05-2025
- Sport
- BBC News
Cornish Pirates coach Walsh agrees to extend deal
Cornish Pirates coach Joe Walsh has agreed a new deal to stay with the club next 25-year-old Irishman will take the role of lead forwards and defence coach for the Championship worked as a performance analyst for the Poland national team in the 2023 Rugby Europe has also been head of performance analysis at Rugby Academy Ireland and with the under-17s side at head coaches Alan Paver and Gavin Cattle agreed new deals last week "It's been a privilege to work with such a great group of players and staff this season and I'm really looking forward to seeing what we can produce as a team next year," Walsh told the club's said: "We're absolutely over the moon to have him for another year. "The way he's come in and contributed to what we do on the pitch, you've really got to see it on the inside."
BBC News
14-05-2025
- Sport
- BBC News
Hooker Nelson to re-join Cornish Pirates
Hooker Morgan Nelson has agreed to return to Cornish Pirates in the 25-year-old joined Premiership side Gloucester in October after almost four years at the Championship club, where he had scored 19 tries in 49 the former Wales Under 18 player has struggled to break into the Cherry and Whites' side, playing exclusively in the Premiership Rugby Cup and European Challenge Cup. "Before he left us Morgan was rightly earmarked as one of the best hookers in the Championship, and he now has the experience of having been involved at a top-level environment," Cornish Pirates joint-head coach Alan Paver said."We are clearly delighted that he'll be back with us, as he is still young and ambitious and has a lot of rugby ahead of him yet. "It's a massive plus because he knows our set up, will fit back in easily, and he is one of those players who adds something extra, both on and off the field."
