Cornwall were beaten 36-33 at Sandy Park by an Exeter side made up mainly of academy players – although the likes of Ehren Painter and Lewis Pearson added some hardened top-flight experience for the hosts. <\/p>\n
It was their only game before a two-legged play-off with reigning county champions Kent over the next two weekends to determine who will face Lancashire at Twickenham next month for the Bill Beaumont Cup. <\/p>\n
As well as Bodilly, Cornwall have top-flight experience though captain Sam Matavesi and his brother Josh, as well as former Gloucester and Cornish Pirates back Kyle Moyle. <\/p>\n
“We asked for a committed performance – we needed to stand up to them in the close contact area and the scrum and the line-out and to be fair our boys delivered,” Cornwall head coach Graham Dawe told BBC Radio Cornwall.<\/p>\n
“We have in mind the side we want to pick within reason, but definitely there’s seven or eight boys there that have put their hand up to be included.<\/p>\n
“They see this pitch on television every other weekend, and for them to grace it and to play on it, that would have lifted their game.<\/p>\n
“You don’t take days like this lightly. You play rugby to play on the big stages if you’re really ambitious, and these guys are ambitious.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Cornwall were beaten 36-33 at Sandy Park by an Exeter side made up mainly of academy players –…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":678411,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[567],"tags":[64,63,760,85],"class_list":["post-678410","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-rugby","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-rugby","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/678410","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=678410"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/678410\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/678411"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=678410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=678410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=678410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}