The Cornish Pirates are scheduled to play the first of their three pre-season friendlies at home to Redruth on Saturday, with the kick-off scheduled for the earlier than usual time of 2pm.

After the hard graft weeks of pre-season training this match will prove useful for the players and coaches, plus it will give an opportunity for supporters to cast an eye over the squad, including the new signings.

The Cornish Pirates selection for Saturday is as follows:

Cornish Pirates:   15 Iwan Price-Thomas 14 Will Trewin 13 Tom Georgiou 12 Joe Elderkin 11 Arthur Relton 10 Bruce Houston 9 Cam Jones; 1 Billy Young 2 Morgan Nelson 3 Jay Tyack (Guest player) 4 Charles ‘Buster’ Rice 5 Matt Cannon 6 Alex Everett 7 Will Gibson 8 John Stevens.

Replacements:   Sol Moody, James French, Oisin Michel, Ollie Andrews, Milo Hallam, Josh King, Hugh Bokenham, Barnaby Elderkin (Guest player), Dan Hiscocks, Will Rigelsford (Guest player), Robin Wedlake, Harry Yates, Charles McCaig.

Referee:   Tom Foley

Assistants:   Neil Chivers & Kevin Williams

Match Day Sponsor:   Yeomans

Tickets:   Admission is £10 for adults and £2 for children under 16. Available seating is on a first come first served basis.

Mentioning the seating aspect, it is important to note that as per last Saturday there will be no entry to the main grandstand for this fixture. This follows an inspection which has deemed it necessary for certain essential maintenance to be carried out in preparation for the start of the league season that gets underway in September.