Having narrowly lost their ‘Champ’ rugby opener at home to Hartpury last weekend, the Cornish Pirates will on Saturday be looking for improvements to get back on track away to Ampthill. Kick-off at Dillingham Park is at 3pm.

Changes in the Pirates starting XV sees Ben Cambriani selected on the wing, with Harry Yates moving to centre in place Joe Elderkin, who was shown a 20-minute red card last weekend. Matt Cannon will this week partner Josh King in the second row, with his ‘6’ shirt to be worn by Rory Suttor, a replacement last week who will making his first league start.

On the bench Milo Hallam, who started at lock against Hartpury, fills a gap left by Suttor, and prop James French takes the place of Ollie Andrews.

The ‘Mob’, to give Ampthill their nickname, will feel a level of confidence playing at their Dillingham Park home, whilst speaking ahead of Saturday’s encounter, Cornish Pirates’ joint head coach Gavin Cattle has said:

“Last Saturday we were slow out of the blocks, which is something we need to address, and although overall getting probably what we deserved we did show a bit of character in the second half.

“As always, we are expecting a tough game against Ampthill, who are aggressive at the breakdown and have good line speed, plus they nowadays have the wisdom of my old friend Dave Ward behind them.

“We know they will be quite buoyant after their win last weekend away to Cambridge, and for us it is about how we respond and perform, to hopefully see an improvement in certain areas to help get us back on track.”

The full Cornish Pirates selection is as follows:

Cornish Pirates:   15 Iwan Price-Thomas 14 Ben Cambriani 13 Chester Ribbons 12 Harry Yates 11 Arthur Relton 10 Arwel Robson 9 Dan Hiscocks; 1 Billy Young 2 Morgan Nelson 3 Alfie Petch 4 Matt Cannon 5 Josh King 6 Rory Suttor 7 Jack Forsythe 8 Alex Everett (captain).

Replacements:   16 Sol Moody 17 Alessandro Heaney 18 James French 19 Milo Hallam 20 Tomiwa Agbongbon 21 Will Rigelsford 22 Louie Sinclair 23 Matty Ward.