The second Plymouth team of Division 2 and the Patrons Cup - Plymouth Marjon Cannons, formerly known as Tamar Valley Cannons - are visiting Body and Mind leisure centre in Canterbury this Saturday. The Cannons come to Kent with a mixed record this year in the Patron’s Cup having beaten form team Leicester by 9 points, but lost out to Cardiff, while having beaten Plymouth Raiders 2 in the National Cup. This game is important to both teams if they want to progress in this competition with having one win in the Patrons Cup.

Last season Cannons swept Crusaders 0-3, beating them in the league by 9 and 19 points and in the Patron’s Cup by 12. So they will be confident ahead of this weekends game, having also reached the semi-finals of this competition last year.

As always the size of Cannons will be a danger on the boards, as Last season they did alot of damage with their rebounding ability.

Crusaders have two players doubtful for the weekend with Sam Betts still struggling after surgery on his kneee, and Mike Webber who has a bad back.

Head coach Mads Olesen quoted ” We’re looking to keep up the winning ways against Plymouth Cannons by sticking to our team concept. For us to win any game we need to play hard and play together. Obviously it was nice to get a win last weekend, but our work is far from done. We need to win the rebound battle again, which will be much tougher against the size of Cannons.”

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