FOLLOWING last Sunday's 28-13 loss at home to Nottingham, the Cornish Pirates have made six changes to their starting line-up.

Injuries have forced out Alex Cheesman and Tom Riley with Joe Atkinson and Alex Dancer coming into replace them.

Other alterations include bringing in Jack Andrew to join his brother Paul in the front row, Matt Bolwell replacing Laurie McGlone at number eight, Craig Holland coming in at left wing and Marcus Garratt featuring in the second row.

Director of rugby Ian Davies said his team know they are going into a tough test at Clifton Lane, but want to make improvements from their last game.

Davies said: "It is always a really tough challenge at Rotherham but that challenge is even greater now with Lee Blackett in charge.

"We underperformed last week and putting right some of those wrongs will be our focus for the match."

CORNISH PIRATES XV: 15 Laurence May, 14 Kieran Goss, 13 Max Bodilly, 12 Alex Dancer, 11 Craig Holland, 10 Kieran Hallett, 9 Tom Kessell; 1 Paul Andrew, 2 Tom Channon, 3 Jack Andrew, 4 Marcus Garratt, 5 Darren Barry, 6 Chris Morgan (c), 7 Joe Atkinson, 8 Matt Bolwell.

REPS: 16 Dean Brooker, 17 Kieran Davies, 18 Alan Paver, 19 Will Graulich, 20 Joel Conlon, 21 Stuart Townsend, 22 Rheon James.