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Bristol Bears team to face Dragons Rugby at Ashton Gate on Friday, September 18th (7.45pm KO):

15. Charles Piutau; 14. Luke Morahan, 13. Semi Radradra, 12. Piers O’Conor, 11. Henry Purdy; 10. Callum Sheedy, 9. Andy Uren; 1. Jake Woolmore, 2. Harry Thacker, 3. Kyle Sinckler, 4. Dave Attwood, 5. Chris Vui, 6. Steven Luatua (c), 7. Ben Earl, 8. Nathan Hughes.

Subs: 16. Will Capon, 17. Yann Thomas, 18. John Afoa, 19. Joe Joyce, 20. Dan Thomas, 21. Harry Randall, 22. Max Malins, 23. Alapati Leiua.

Dragons: Jordan Williams, Jonah Holmes, Nick Tompkins, Jamie Roberts, Ashton Hewitt, Sam Davies, Rhodri Williams (c); Brok Harris, Elliot Dee, Leon Brown, Joe Davies, Matthew Screech, Aaron Wainwright, Harrison Keddie, Ross Moriarty

Replacements: Richard Hibbard, Josh Reynolds, Lloyd Fairbrother, Joe Maksymiw, Taine Basham, Luke Baldwin, Josh Lewis, Adam Warren

About as strong as Bristol can get and a few old boys in the Dragons side. Should be a good game, hopefully a home win as well.

Bloody hell, Randall's bounced back quickly. I had thought that was him done for the season.

Puja

Puja wrote: Bloody hell, Randall's bounced back quickly. I had thought that was him done for the season.

Was just a big cut on the knee thankfully!

Cut knee! He went down as if he'd done something very serious. Glad he's back.

Bris should be favourites, though i confess i know nothing of the Dragon's form.

fivepointer wrote:Cut knee! He went down as if he'd done something very serious. Glad he's back.

Bris should be favourites, though i confess i know nothing of the Dragon's form.

Sheedy did take the piss a bit on twitter:

Nice I forgot about this. Will hopefully make a change from the "guess which game has first team players" premiership.

jimKRFC wrote:

Puja wrote: Bloody hell, Randall's bounced back quickly. I had thought that was him done for the season.

Was just a big cut on the knee thankfully!

Is that with a silent n?

Ok game so far, Bristol very sloppy for most of the 1st half. Don't usually have the commentators on and finding Healey a bit annoying.

Bristol look terrible one minute then imperious the next.

twitchy wrote: Bristol look terrible one minute then imperious the next.

Yup, makes for exciting watching! Happy with that performance in the end. Expect we'll play Bordeaux next week now as it was Semi's old club.

Bristol can go from one extreme to another. Some of their tries last night were fabulous.
Impressed with Earl's all round game, Thacker was excellent but the man who stood out for me was Randall. He looked electric. His passing has definitely improved, he has a really sharp running game and a keen eye for an opening. He is small but goodness he's such a threat.