RUGBY: MCATEE WINGS IN FOR DUCHY DECIDER

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Created on Thursday, 10 May 2012 08:24

Last Updated on Friday, 18 May 2012 13:09

Published on Wednesday, 09 May 2012 08:24

Cornwall have been forced to change to their winning line-up ahead of Saturday’s eagerly anticipated RFU Bill Beaumont Cup Division One decider away to Hertfordshire (Hertford RFC, Ware 1400).

Cornish Pirates wing Rhodri McAtee comes into the Duchy XV as London Scottish centre Ryan Westren (groin) is ruled out by injury confirmed Cornwall head coach Dave "Benji" Thomas to SWSN.

Plymouth Albion’s Steve Johns switches inside to partner Launceston’s Lewis Paterson in the centre.

Cornwall kicked off their 2012 county championship campaign with a 23-16 win over Gloucestershire at Redruth while group favourites Herts hammered North Midlands 52-8 at Woollams, St Albans scoring eight tries in the process.

Nevertheless Cornwall’s first win over Gloucestershire for five seasons has lifted the hopes of the travelling Trelawny’s Army as their heroes try and avenge last season's heart-breaking 25-18 home defeat to finalists Herts.

Coach Thomas said: “I was pleased with our performance against Gloucestershire, we were up against a much bigger pack and our forwards played very well.

“Last season we had no players from Launceston available to us because of league commitments so we are much more at full-strength this year.

“Herts are a pretty powerful outfit and have a number of Saracens and Old Albanian players in the side.

“We are not going to be overawed, we’ve got a job to do, we’ve trained hard this week and we’re looking for a result on Saturday.

“We’ll certainly go there and give it our best shot.”

Cornwall Brett Rule (Redruth); Richard Bright (Launceston), Steve Johns (Plymouth Albion) Lewis Paterson (Launceston) Rhodri McAtee (Cornish Pirates); Lewis Webb (Launceston), Greg Goodfellow (Redruth); Darren Jacques (Redruth), Jamie Salter (Launceston), Craig Williams (Redruth); Ben Hillton (Launceston, capt), Bryn Jenkins (Cambridge); Mike Rawlings (Launceston), Tom Rawlings (Launceston), Sam Hocking (Plymouth Albion).

Bench David Pascoe (Penryn) Jake Murphy (Launceston), Tom Duncan, Peter Joyce, Richard Brown, Chris Fuca Tom Notman (all Redruth).

Hertfordshire (from) Richard Gregg (Old Albanian); Ben Ransom (Saracens), Kameli Ratouvou (Saracens), Chris Lombaard (Old Albanian), Michael Allen (Hertford); James Shanahan (Old Albanian), Stefan Liebenberg (Old Albanian); Jared Saunders (Saracens), Brett MacNamee (Hertford, capt), Petrus Du Plessis (Saracens), Craig South (Hertford), Eoin Sherriff (Saracens), Ollie Cooper-Miller (Old Albanian), Rod Farenheim (Old Albanian), Billy Johnson (Bedford). Last week's replacements John Morgan (Tring), Rob Schillaci (Hertford), Marco Cecere (Old Albanian), Tom Mowbray (Chinnor), Luke O’Keefe (Old Albanian), Tom Newton (Tring), Tom Coleman (Bishop’s Stortford)

• Hertford RFC is located at Highfields, Hoe Lane, Ware

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