The 2012–13 season was the

Cornish Pirates The Cornish Pirates () are a professional rugby union team who play in the RFU Championship, Championship, the second level of the English rugby union pyramid, and are the premier Cornish rugby club. The Cornish Pirates team are the 'First XV' o ...

tenth season in the second tier of the English rugby union league system, the

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and their fourth in the

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Pre–season friendlies

RFU Championship

Stage one consists of twelve teams playing each of the other teams twice, once at home and once away, making a total of 22 games for each team. The league programme starts on Saturday, 1 September 2012 and will be completed by Saturday, 20 April 2013. The top four teams qualify for the two–legged semi–finals whilst the bottom team will be relegated to

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Stage one fixtures

Stage one league table

British and Irish Cup

The

2012–13 British and Irish Cup The 2012–13 British and Irish Cup was the fourth season of the annual rugby union competition for second tier, semi-professional clubs from Britain and Ireland. The final was contest on 17 May 2013 and won by Leinster A with a 78th minute Penalt ...

is the fourth season of the annual rugby union competition for second tier,

semi-professional Semi-professional sports are sports in which athletes are not participating on a full-time basis, but still receive some payment. Semi-professionals are not amateur because they receive regular payment from their team, but generally at a cons ...

and

professional A professional is a member of a profession or any person who work (human activity), works in a specified professional activity. The term also describes the standards of education and training that prepare members of the profession with the partic ...

clubs from Britain and Ireland. First round matches began on the weekend of 13 October 2012 and the final will be on the weekend of 17 May 2013. The competition consists of eight groups of four teams playing each other twice to give each team six matches. The top team in each group qualifies for the quarter–finals and the final will be played at a venue to be decided when the finalists are known. The Pirates are in Pool 3.

Group stage

Quarter–final

The quarter–finals were played on the weekend of 6 April and was decided by how well each group winner performed in the group matches. This is the third time in four seasons that the two teams have met with the Pirates winning the two previous encounters. Details of the full draw can be found at

Squad 2012–13

Dual registration

* David Ewers (Exeter Chiefs) * Lloyd Fairbrother (Exeter Chiefs) * Sam Hill (Exeter Chiefs) * Charles Walker–Blair (Exeter Chiefs) * Rob Cook (Gloucester) * Jack Yeandle (Exeter Chiefs) * Lewis Vinnicombe (Redruth) * Owen Hambly (Redruth) * Tom Duncan (Redruth) * Ashley Smith (London Welsh) * Jack Nowell

Transfers 2012–13

Players in

* Tom Bedford (from

Newcastle Falcons Newcastle Falcons is a rugby union team that play in Premiership Rugby, England's highest division of rugby union. The club was established in 1877 as the Gosforth Football Club. Around 1882 the club merged with the Northumberland Football Cl ...

) *

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(from

Bristol Bristol () is a City status in the United Kingdom, cathedral city, unitary authority area and ceremonial county in South West England, the most populous city in the region. Built around the River Avon, Bristol, River Avon, it is bordered by t ...

) * Alex Cheeseman (from London Wasps) *

Adam Clayton Adam Charles Clayton (born 13 March 1960) is an English-Irish musician who is the bass guitarist of the rock music, rock band U2. Born in Oxfordshire, England, he lived in County Dublin, Republic of Ireland, Ireland after his family moved to ...

(from Birmingham & Solihull Bees) * Alaifatu Junior Fatialofa (from

) * Kieran Hallett (from

Nottingham Nottingham ( , East Midlands English, locally ) is a City status in the United Kingdom, city and Unitary authorities of England, unitary authority area in Nottinghamshire, East Midlands, England. It is located south-east of Sheffield and nor ...

) *

Gary Johnson Gary Earl Johnson (born January 1, 1953) is an American businessman and politician who served as the 29th List of governors of New Mexico, governor of New Mexico from 1995 to 2003 as a member of the Republican Party (United States), Republica ...

(from

London Welsh London Welsh Rugby Football Club () was a rugby union club formed in 1885. Based in Old Deer Park, Richmond-upon-Thames, London Welsh RFC played in the English Premiership in the 2012–13 and 2014–15 seasons, after gaining promotion from ...

) * David Lyons (from

Moseley Moseley ( ') is an affluent suburb in south Birmingham, England, south of the city centre. It is located within the eponymous Moseley ward of the constituency of Birmingham Hall Green and Moseley (UK Parliament constituency), Hall Green and ...

) *

Kyle Moyle Kyle Moyle (born 19 January 1993) is an English rugby union player who competes for Gloucester in the Premiership Rugby. His main position is a fullback. Moyle started early in his senior rugby career playing for the Pirates Amateurs, St. Iv ...

(from St Ives) *

Ben Prescott Ben Prescott (born 31 July 1978 in Tripoli, Libya) is a Libyan born Scottish former rugby union player for Glasgow Warriors at the Tighthead Prop position. Amateur career Prescott played for Aberdeen GSFP. He also played for Blackrock Colle ...

(from

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and

) * Tom Riley from ( Newport Gwent Dragons) * Darren Semmems (from

Cornish All Blacks Launceston Rugby Club (also known as the Cornish All Blacks, the name of the 1st team) is a Cornish rugby club which play at Polson Bridge, Launceston, Cornwall. They are currently in Regional 1 South West, at the fifth tier of the English ...

) * Peter Joyce (from

Redruth Redruth ( , ) is a town and civil parishes in Cornwall, civil parish in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. According to the 2011 census, the population of Redruth was 14,018 In the same year the population of the Camborne-Redruth urban area, ...

) * Ben Mercer (unregistered)

Players out

* Rudi Brits (released) * Rob Cook (to

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) (dual registration from 7 September) * Tom Cooper (to

Jersey Jersey ( ; ), officially the Bailiwick of Jersey, is an autonomous and self-governing island territory of the British Islands. Although as a British Crown Dependency it is not a sovereign state, it has its own distinguishing civil and gov ...

) * Tom Cowan–Dickie (to

Plymouth Albion Plymouth Albion Rugby Football Club is a rugby union club who play in Plymouth, England. The present club was founded in 1920 from a merger between Plymouth RFC (founded 1876) and Devonport Albion RFC (founded 1876). Since 2003 they have played ...

and

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, dual registration) *

Darren Daniel Darren Daniel (born 13 September 1986) is a Welsh rugby union footballer. Daniel began his career with Llanelli RFC, working his way up through the junior and youth teams, before finally reaching the senior squad. By the time he was 18, Daniel ...

(released from contract in March 2012) * David Doherty (to

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) * James Doherty (to

) *

Drew Locke Drew Locke (born 11 September 1986) is a rugby union player for London Scottish. His position of choice is at centre but is also able to play at fullback. His previous clubs were Jersey, Cornish Pirates, Coventry and the Exeter Chiefs. Drew ...

(to

) * Rhodri McAtee (released and moving to

) * Mike Myerscough (to

) * Ian Nimmo (to Newport Gwent Dragons) * Carl Rimmer (to

) *

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(to

) * Andrew Suniula (released) *

Ceiron Thomas Ceiron Thomas (born 23 October 1983) is a Welsh former rugby union footballer who played for the Scarlets, Leeds Carnegie, Cornish Pirates, and St Ives RFC. His regular position was at fly-half, though he often played at fullback. Thomas began ...

(released and moving to St Ives RFC) * Dave Ward (to Harlequins) * Ryan Westren

Coaching staff

* Ian Davies () (Head Coach) from April 2012. Previously Forwards Coach appointed in April 2009. * Harvey Biljon () (Backs Coach) appointed in April 2009. * Simon Raynes () (Strength and Conditioning Coach) since summer 2005.

References

External links

Cornish Pirates
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Pre–season friendlies

RFU Championship

Stage one fixtures

Stage one league table

British and Irish Cup

Group stage

Quarter–final

Squad 2012–13

Dual registration

Transfers 2012–13

Players in

Players out

Coaching staff

See also

References

External links