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Bristol Bears team to face Worcester Warriors at Sixways on Sunday, October 7th (3pm KO):

15. Zane Kirchner; 14. Luke Morahan, 13. Will Hurrell, 12. Siale Piutau (co-capt), 11. Alapati Leiua; 10. Ian Madigan, 9. Andy Uren; 1. Yann Thomas, 2. Harry Thacker, 3. John Afoa, 4. Ed Holmes, 5. Joe Joyce, 6. Steve Luatua (co-capt), 7. George Smith, 8. Jack Lam.

Replacements: 16. Nick Fenton-Wells, 17. Jake Woolmore, 18. Jake Armstrong, 19. Sam Jeffries, 20. Dan Thomas, 21. Nic Stirzaker, 22. Callum Sheedy, 23. Ryan Edwards.

Shoudl be close... I knid of hope that the new owners have unsettled the squad a bit and we can nick this one.

Cant see more than a score in it either way. Not much between the sides on paper. Home advantage just might swing it to Wuss.

Briz try 3 mins in.

Quality from mills. 15-7

Worcester completely outplaying Bristol everywhere, in every way.

The improvement in Mills since he got himself fully fit is a lesson to a lot of young players and their coaches about "playing hurt".

Close game i see......

Can't wait to see Singleton and Mills in a tigers shirt!

I still cannot get over the pronunciation of Hoo-har.

I wasn't expecting wuss to do this.

Disagree with Austin about where Bristol are.
For me Lam has built a team around fast loose play and it just doesn't work in the prem, and it won't get better in the winter.

Let's see how we do with a man down for the last 12 minutes…

Frustrating red card - when I saw it in real time I thought it was Hurrell making a lot out of it but was surprised to see play go on

Only caught the last 30mins or so but even with 14 men, it looked as though Worcester were easily containing the majority of Bristol's attacks and even when they did break through, the invariably coughed-up possession.

An impressive result for Worcester. I said at the start of the season that I thought they could cause a few sides some problems and with Hougaard back, they seem to be doing exactly that.

Awful performance and result for Bristol. They didnt help themselves at all at times with wild offloads and dozy defending. Wuss did look good, though. Mills is a very astute footballer and much of their good play comes through him.

Glad I missed that.... I blame my father, he only ever seems to go watch Bristol at Worcester......

Duncan Weir proving an astute signing so far, and not many predicted that

Both sides have tight fives that can leave a lot of space for the other side

Wuss are on a roll it seems - a completely different xv run in 5 tries on the road at SF who themselves are riding high in the Top14 - it didn't look their reserves team either.Bravo !