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Swashbuckling Gus the star for Pirates

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The Rugby Paper Team
23 August 2026

By BEN JAYCOCK

CORNISH Pirates recovered from a difficult start to claim an impressive 35-21 pre-season victory over Plymouth Albion at Brickfields and return to Cornwall with south west bragging rights over their Devonian rivals.
The Champ side trailed 14-0 after 20 minutes and lost Harry Ascherl to the sin-bin amid a mounting penalty count, but exploded into life on the stroke of half-time.
Harry Palmer showed his electric pace to collect an Angus Mawson kick and race over before Arwel Robson converted. Moments later Robson danced through himself and converted his own try to make...

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