Exeter vs Bristol - Sat 3pm

[Puja]

Bristol Bears team to face Exeter Chiefs at Sandy Park on Saturday (3pm KO):

15. Charles Piutau (78 apps), 14. Siva Naulago (25 apps), 13. Joe Jenkins (6 apps), 12. James Williams (14 apps), 11. Gabriel Ibitoye (16 apps), 10. Callum Sheedy (150 apps), 9. Harry Randall (cc) (100 apps); 1. Yann Thomas (109 apps), 2. Will Capon (68 apps),), 3. Max Lahiff (65 apps), 4. Joe Batley (37 apps), 5. Chris Vui (116 apps), 6. Steven Luatua (cc) (112 apps), 7. Sam Jeffries (60 apps), 8. Fitz Harding (50 apps).

System players: 16. Fred Davies (7 apps), 17. Jake Woolmore (129 apps), 18. George Kloska (26 apps), 19. Charlie Rice (4 apps), 20. Dan Thomas (126 apps), 21. Andy Uren (156 apps), 22. Sam Bedlow (61 apps), 23. Ioan Lloyd (78 apps).

Unavailable: Ellis Genge, Harry Thacker, Bryan Byrne, Kyle Sinckler, Jay Tyack, Joe Joyce, John Hawkins, Ed Holmes, Sam Lewis, Magnus Bradbury, Will Porter, AJ MacGinty, Semi Radradra, Deago Bailey.

[jimKRFC]

No idea how this will go... hopefully we can end the season with two derby wins but there a lot of key Bristol names missing!

[fivepointer]

Chiefs at home are a dozen points better than the team that travels.

Might be close but the SP effect will favour Exeter.

[p/d]

Big last game at Sandy for a host of players. An emotional day could be the difference

[Banquo]

Is Nowell crocked/banned?

[Oakboy]

Is Nowell crocked/banned?

Not sure but when he did his infamous tweet there was a 'currently injured' reference in the press. Baxter referred to his performance in the Stormers game as 'one of the best I've seen on one leg'. It probably means he is still injured.

[twitchy]

Not on tv sadly. End of an era.

[jimKRFC]

On first seeing the result (on twitter) i was fairly happy that we'd only lost narrowly..

I then found out we'd played 14 for most of the game and it's (again) penalties killing cohesion that Bristol we're in danger of building.
Really is difficult to get any enthusiasm for the side at the moment with repeat stupid errors (catching restarts), terrible discipline and losing players all over the place...

[fivepointer]

Know someone who went and he confirmed a) it was a rubbish game and b) Bristol were terrible.

Bristol commit so many dull errors that you do wonder just what kind of messages they are getting. I like Lam but his record over the last 2 seasons has been pretty awful.

[Danno]

Know someone who went and he confirmed a) it was a rubbish game and b) Bristol were terrible.

Bristol commit so many dull errors that you do wonder just what kind of messages they are getting. I like Lam but his record over the last 2 seasons has been pretty awful.

I like Lam as well, but he's surely just an attack coach at this point. The gamble on superstars paid off as well as everyone figured it would (beyond the 2020 season) as soon as they started dropping, and dropping, and dropping like flies and then there was 0 depth. Doesn't really scream head coach to me because there's just no, or not enough planning