{"id":28964,"date":"2026-04-30T19:44:51","date_gmt":"2026-04-30T19:44:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/alfie-petch-cornish-pirates-prop-signs-new-deal-with-champ-side\/"},"modified":"2026-04-30T19:44:51","modified_gmt":"2026-04-30T19:44:51","slug":"alfie-petch-cornish-pirates-prop-signs-new-deal-with-champ-side","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/alfie-petch-cornish-pirates-prop-signs-new-deal-with-champ-side\/","title":{"rendered":"Alfie Petch: Cornish Pirates prop signs new deal with Champ side"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Experienced Cornish Pirates prop Alfie Petch has agreed a new deal with the Champ club for the 2026-27 season.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 26-year-old Cornishman <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/rugby-union\/articles\/ckg4zxxxd8yo\" class=\"ssrcss-18834jl-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">joined the Pirates on a permanent deal last summer from Gloucester.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The former Exeter forward previously had two loan spells at Mennaye while at the Prem club.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He has been a fixture in the Pirates&#8217; front row this season, missing just two league matches and has played a total of 52 times for the club across his loan and permanent stays.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He becomes the 14th player to agree new terms for next season after young back Finn Love signed a deal on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;He&#8217;s such an important part of the scrum and the success we&#8217;ve had in that area of the game, but his skill level around the park is extremely underrated,&#8221; joint-head coach Alan Paver said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;He&#8217;s a local lad and I know it means a great deal to him to be here and represent Cornwall.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Meanwhile, Cornish Pirates have confirmed that six players will not be offered new terms at the end of the current season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Charlie Rice, Ollie Andrews, Iwan Price-Thomas, Will Rigelsford, Rory Suttor and Ben Cambriani will all leave the club in the summer.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/rugby-union\/articles\/cvgzl321g2xo?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Experienced Cornish Pirates prop Alfie Petch has agreed a new deal with the Champ club for the 2026-27 season. The 26-year-old Cornishman joined the Pirates on a permanent deal last summer from Gloucester. The former Exeter forward previously had two loan spells at Mennaye while at the Prem club. He has been a fixture in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":28965,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28964","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-rugby"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28964","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28964"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28964\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28966,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28964\/revisions\/28966"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28965"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}