Tag: cornish pirates

  • Started Well!!

    Started Well!!

    Pirates started their league season with a top win away from home. Four tries and five points away to Nottingham Rugby, The Archers.

  • Winning Never Gets Old

    Winning Never Gets Old

    I’ve lived and breathed Cornish Pirates Rugby Club since they were Penzance and Newlyn Rugby Club and I played as a boy. Every win is a joy. Every loss is a lesson. THIS WIN was the best of all. Winning never gets old, and it keeps me young. On Saturday 25th May 2024 Cornish Pirates…

  • In The News…

    In The News…

    It was a privilege to sit and do a long interview with Alex Mead at The Rugby Journal earlier this year. Not least because I share an edition with Jiffy, Jonathan Davies, a legend of Welsh rugby and a visitor to Hemingways here in Kenya. I’m pretty explicit about my feelings for the people that…

  • Big Surprise from the Pirates

    Big Surprise from the Pirates

    CLICK on the screen below to get a rousing chorus from the lads 😁 (or turn them off !!!) Cheered me up no end 👍 Basically my wife is in the UK and not back until the end of the month. This is the first birthday for 51 years without her. Missing her big time…

  • Floyd Steadman OBE – an inspiration

    Floyd Steadman OBE – an inspiration

    Floyd Steadman blazed his own trail in 1980s rugby. A black scrum-half at a time when that was considered unusual, he became captain of Saracens and a key player for one of the sport’s traditional powerhouses. But before he even set eyes on a rugby ball, Floyd had overcome – and continued to overcome –…

  • EXCITING TIMES AHEAD

    EXCITING TIMES AHEAD

    What does it mean to be Cornish? Kernow Sport Ltd will shortly be launching a Crowdfund campaign in order to provide members of the public with the opportunity to invest in professional sport in Cornwall.  This is a unique and rare opportunity to not just be a fan, but to own your own part of…

  • ⚡️Breaking News ⚡️

    ⚡️Breaking News ⚡️

    UK Government and Love of the Game announce new concussion guidelines Rugby legend Simon Shaw, heads up the campaign to avert the dangers of concussion in sport. See his interview in The Times. Simon’s charity Love of the Game (LOTG) works with Government, Medics and researchers to find ways to prevent immediate and long term…