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Team v Plymouth
DIR By: Steve Bott
Date: March 7, 2025, 6:00 am
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Round 21 of National 1 this weekend sees Rotherham Titans take
on what many pundits believe to be the toughest test in the
division, when they travel to Devon to take on Plymouth Albion
at Brickfields Stadium; kick-off on Saturday is 3pm.
Rotherham will go into the game on the back of a brutal battle
with Birmingham Mosely at Clifton Lane, in which the South
Yorkshire side squeeze out a narrow 28-27 victory.
Although in the latter stages Titans had the upper hand, they
were unable to convert that pressure into a fourth try and a
bonus point.
Nevertheless, the victory itself was an outstanding result
against a much-improved Moseley side who pushed Rotherham all
the way to the final whistle.
This week Titans face another old rival in Plymouth Albion, and
Albion will be full of confidence having strung together an
impressive run of results that has seen them win nine on the
trot.
Notable results for the South Devon side have included wins home
and away against Bishop’s Stortford, Leicester Lions, Blackheath
and Birmingham Moseley; but the real eye-catching result was
last time out when they went to Rams and beat them convincingly
47-33 at Old Bath Road.
Indeed, the last time Albion lost a game was back in November
2024 when they suffered a narrow 33-29 loss away to Rosslyn
Park.
Brickfields has always been a challenging place to go and get a
result and you have to go back to 2013 to find Rotherham’s last
win there.
That came in a Championship clash where tries from Jack Roberts,
Jack Preece and Michael Keating and points from the tee from
Juan Pablo Socino and Joel Hodgson helped the Titans to a 28-17
win.
The sides have met in the league on 31 occasions with the
head-to-head standing at 17 wins for Rotherham, 13 for Albion
and one draw. Most of these clashes have been extremely close
and keenly fought affairs and something similar is expected this
weekend.
Going into the match Rotherham have made four changes to their
starting XV.
In the front row hooker Morgan Veness returns to the side for
Loma Kivalu and he’ll be flanked by props Zach Toerien who comes
in for Charlie Capps at loosehead and Eoin Harrison who comes in
for Andrew Foster at tighthead.
The second row is unaltered and sees Harry Gilson-Fox partner
skipper Zak Poole.
The back row also stays the same with Travis Gordon on the
blindside, Harry Newborn on the openside and Callum Bustin at
number 8.
Across the backline is the same consistency in the half backs as
scrum half JB Bruzulier accompanies fly half Rob Povey.
The midfield remains the same too, as it has done for much of
the season, and Lloyd Hayes and Jamie Cooke will link up again.
The back three sees Jack Townend come into the side at full
back, meaning Ronnie Du Randt goes on to the wing for Calum
Barrett, with Tomasi Tanumi on the other wing.
Titans: 15 Jack Townend, 14 Tomasi Tanumi, 13 Lloyd Hayes, 12
Jamie Cooke, 11 Ronnie Du Randt, 10 Rob Povey, 9 JB Bruzulier, 1
Zach Toerien, 2 Morgan Veness, 3 Eoin Harrison, 4 Zak Poole ©, 5
Harry Gilson-Fox, 6 Travis Gordon, 7 Harry Newborn, 8 Callum
Bustin.
Replacements: 16 John Okafor, 17 Charlie Capps ©, 18 Andrew
Foster, 19 Curran Maguire, 20 James Naylor.
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Re: Team v Plymouth
DIR By: Chris.Garbutt
Date: March 7, 2025, 7:27 am
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This is going to be one of our toughest games of the season
however we pushed Richmond away right until the last minutes of
the game so anything is possible.
Give it all you have got lads!
Come on Roth!!
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Re: Team v Plymouth
DIR By: Jim Garbutt
Date: March 7, 2025, 9:41 am
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It will be tough. Plymouth is always a hard game.
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Re: Team v Plymouth
DIR By: Stingray
Date: March 7, 2025, 10:27 am
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Good to see John back. Interesting choice of starting props, but
the quality of our bench could prove decisive. Good luck lads.
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