Meanwhile Cornwall’s Women travel to North Midlands on Sunday hoping to secure their own spot at Twickenham.<\/p>\n
They are in the semi-finals of the second tier of the County Championship having thrashed Berkshire 86-0 and beaten rivals Devon 26-17 last week to top their pool and earn a place in the last four.<\/p>\n
“I think we’ve got such a talented bunch at the moment,” Cornwall coach Jo Holden said.<\/p>\n
“We prepare for a team the same way we always do, we look at our game and we kind of focus on the things that we can make better, because especially at county level you never know what players they could bring in or not bring in.<\/p>\n
“We look at what we’ve got and how we can make that better and we’re very lucky this year with the talent that we’ve got in the Cornish squad.<\/p>\n
“We’ve got some fantastic impact players that can change a game as well, so we are extremely lucky this year.”<\/p>\n
It is a return to the semi-final stages for the first time in two years for Cornwall after losing at Durham in 2024. <\/p>\n
It is the third time they have reached the knockout stages since being promoted as Division Three champions in 2022.<\/p>\n
“We’ve been in this position before – we went away to Durham and unfortunately didn’t get the result that we wanted,” added Holden. <\/p>\n
“So again we have to learn that lesson, we have to go ‘it’s this game’.<\/p>\n
“I’ve said at the beginning of this campaign we’re aiming for four games in this championship, and we’re on three, so we focus on three, and if we can get to four, then we’ll start to really push for that spot.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Meanwhile Cornwall’s Women travel to North Midlands on Sunday hoping to secure their own spot at Twickenham. They…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":702008,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[567],"tags":[64,63,760,85],"class_list":["post-702007","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\/702007","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=702007"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/702007\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/702008"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=702007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=702007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=702007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}