For their Round 4 fixture in Champ Rugby this weekend, the Cornish Pirates travel to play London Scottish away – kick-off 3pm at the Richmond Athletic Ground.

With two narrow losses and a draw behind them, the Pirates will be fully focused and keen to record their first win in the campaign. As for selection, there is just a single change in their starting XV from the one that ran out against Doncaster Knights last weekend. Fit again Joe Elderkin returns in the centre to partner Chester Ribbons, with Harry Yates this week taking a seat on the bench.

Speaking ahead of Saturday’s encounter, Cornish Pirates’ coach Joe Walsh has said:

“We have prepared for a really important contest this week, and one when we mustn’t take the foot off the gas, because London Scottish will offer a lot of threats.

“There was a feeling that we improved in what was an arm wrestle of a draw against Doncaster Knights last weekend, though ultimately playing without the full accuracy sought to achieve the desired result. At the end we reflected that it was a fair result on the day.

“As for London Scottish, they will clearly be buoyant after their 38-15 first win of the season away to Cambridge on Saturday, and we know from our loss away to them last season that we’ll need our energy to be there this weekend. If so, and we can apply ourselves physically and seize some of those critical moments going forward, then it’ll help our cause.”

The Cornish Pirates full selection for Saturday is as follows:

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

Replacements: 16 Sol Moody 17 Alessandro Heaney 18 James French 19 Milo Hallam 20 Luke Ratcliff 21 Will Rigelsford 22 Louie Sinclair 23 Harry Yates.

Referee:  Charlie Gayther

Assistants:   Iain Kiy & Darryl Chapman

Official 4:   Lewis Franks