Davies is now in his second season coaching the Pirates

Cornish Pirates forwards coach Ian Davies says the club will do everything they can to make the knockout stages of the British & Irish Cup.

The Pirates, who are defending champions, must get two points at Worcester to avoid dropping out of the competition in the group stages.

Davies told BBC Cornwall: "There's two trophies to win as a rugby player in this league and this is one of them.

"We worked hard to win it last year and we'd love to keep it."

A narrow 34-32 defeat away at Newport in January has left the Pirates two points behind Pool A leaders Leinster with just one game remaining.

Davies continued: "We could have made life a lot easier for ourselves by winning at Newport, but we haven't done that so we made a rod for our back and we've got to work through it.

"If we get four points on Saturday then we win the pool which gives us a home quarter-final which is important because I don't think anybody likes coming to Penzance."

Fly-half Johnny Bentley is rested for the clash, with number eight Blair Cowan also ruled out with a knee injury.

E-mail this to a friend

Printable version