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By Matt Hardy Championship sides Chinnor and Cambridge will compete in the Not The Premiership Rugby Cup after being excluded from the original competition. On Friday night at Mennaye Field in Penzance, Cornish Pirates will fancy themselves against a winless Exeter Chiefs in the opening fixture of the Premiership Rugby Cup. The competition has been one of the most progressive moves Premiership Rugby and the Rugby Football Union have made amid concerns over the future of promotion and relegation, and the stability in the English game. But two clubs – Cambridge and newly promoted fellow Champion…

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