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Bristol Bears team to face Leicester Tigers at Ashton Gate on Saturday, December 1st (1pm KO):

15. Charles Piutau; 14. Luke Morahan, 13. Will Hurrell, 12. Siale Piutau (co-capt), 11. Alapati Leiua; 10. Ian Madigan 9. Harry Randall; 1. Yann Thomas, 2. Harry Thacker, 3. John Afoa, 4. Joe Joyce, 5. Aly Muldowney, 6. Steve Luatua, 7. George Smith, 8. Jordan Crane (co-capt).

Replacements: 16. Shaun Malton, 17. Jake Woolmore, 18. Lewis Thiede, 19. Ed Holmes, 20. Dan Thomas, 21. Andy Uren, 22. Callum Sheedy, 23. Piers O’Conor.

Leicestr:
15 Jonah Holmes
14 Adam Thompstone
13 Manu Tuilagi
12 Kyle Eastmond
11 Jonny May
10 George Ford (c)
9 Ben Youngs
1 Ellis Genge
2 Jake Kerr
3 Dan Cole
4 Will Spencer
5 Graham Kitchener
6 Mike Williams
7 Brendon O’Connor
8 Sione Kalamafoni

Replacements
16 Tatafu Polota-Nau
17 Facundo Gigena
18 Gaston Cortes
19 Harry Wells
20 Mike Fitzgerald
21 Ben White
22 Matt Toomua
23 Matt Smith

No idea how Bristol will go, strugling with consistency at the moment.

Suspect this one will be close. Bris are no pushovers at home and Tigers havent been remotely convincing. Nice to see Genge back.

Could this be the game Bris finally get over the line and get the points their performances deserve?

Peej wrote:Could this be the game Bris finally get over the line and get the points their performances deserve?

As a Wuss fan, I hope not.

Bris up 13-7. Eastmond red carded for high tackle.

Thacker running riot.

Murphy has feck me off.

Won't sign a new defence coach despite Deacon being out of his depth.
Keeps picking Kitchener over wells.

Murphy has a lot of credit in the bank but he is draining that credit fast.

I really need somewhere to vent about Leicester.

Daily Fail might want a good piece they seem to print anything as well.

Finished 41-10.
Big result for Bristol.
I'm not at all sure what the heck is going on at Leicester.

Didnt expect that! Was the red deserved?

Easy red.

Not the first time Eastmond has earned an easy red in the tackle, really it looked like he wanted Christmas off so he can get on the beers

Digby wrote:Not the first time Eastmond has earned an easy red in the tackle, really it looked like he wanted Christmas off so he can get on the beers

League background, added to being little, so he feels the need to go too high when he goes high.
He's always been a card waiting to happen, increasingly likely as the tackler line comes down and refs are told to be harsh on them.

He can produce some magic to own a match singel-handedly; but he's also capable of going way too high and way too obvious, and losing the match singel-handedly as well.

I'm not the biggest fan of his BUT I feel like Tigers could do with getting Ratu Peni Rayani Latianara in.

Tigersman wrote:I'm not the biggest fan of his BUT I feel like Tigers could do with getting Ratu Peni Rayani Latianara in.

Oh god, that's the last thing we need. May as well sign a league coach - it's just as distant a code and would come with less of a chip on his shoulder and less of an ego.

Puja