Year Founded: 1878
Nickname: Town/Cherry & Whites
Ground: Recreation Ground (7,000 capacity, 780 seats)
Current Position: Third (P9 W8 D0 L1 TB8 LB0 Pts 40)
Last season: Champions of National Two West (P26 W22 D0 L4 TB22 LB3 Pts 113)
Recent form:
Exceptional – Town have been luck a duck to water at Level Three and have won their past seven matches.
Last Saturday they downed Bishop’s Stortford 66-35 on the back of a 57-38 victory at Dings Crusaders.
The completed the first block with a 33-29 home triumph versus Sale FC, having previously overcome Cambridge (59-26 away), London Scottish (38-26, h), Sheffield (26-24, a) and Rosslyn Park (40-26, a).
Their only defeat so far came at home to unbeaten leaders Plymouth Albion (32-21), while they signalled notice of their intent with an opening-day 38-36 triumph at Leeds Tykes.
Players to watch:
Ben Priddey – A try-scoring machine at hooker, the former Royal Navy captain (and current Head Coach) leads the way with 15 in six National One outings this term.
Those include four against Bishop’s Stortford – coming off another quartet for Camborne 2nd XV at Camborne – plus hat-tricks versus London Scottish and Rosslyn Park.
He has scored in every game this season and has more than 200 tries in 166 appearances for the first team.
Racked up an incredible 45 tries in 2024/25 – including eight hat-tricks – and another 38 five-pointers in last season’s title-winning campaign.
Scored a hat-trick for the Navy against British Army at Twickenham in 2014, where he also won a County Championship with Cornwall in 2022.
*Above pictures by Chris Mather Photography
Sam Matavesi – Experienced Fijian international who played at both the 2019 and 2023 World Cups, the hooker/back row has nine tries so far this term.
A French Pro14 winner with Toulouse and Premiership champion for Northampton Saints, Matavesi has also played for Cornish Pirates and Lyon before joining Camborne ahead of the 2025/26 season.
Fraser Honey – Former Ram swapped London Scottish for his native Cornwall in the summer.
A popular figure at Old Bath Road, the fly-half made 51 consecutive appearances during the 2023/24 and 24/25 campaigns, posting 341 appearances (154 conversions and 11 penalties) for the Berkshire boys.
Tops Camborne’s point-scorers so far with 80 (40 conversions), and having missed the Plymouth loss through injury, is yet to lose for the Cherry & Whites.
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