Will Carpenter

6 days ago | bristolbearsrugby.com | Will Carpenter

Joe Batley will make his first appearance for six months in Bristol Bears’ blockbuster Big Day Out derby showdown with West Country rivals Bath Rugby at Cardiff’s Principality Stadium on Saturday (3.05pm KO, live on TNT Sports and ITV Sport). The second row, who hasn’t featured since November, partners Josh Caulfield in the engine room as Pat Lam’s side take on table-topping Bath in the Welsh capital.

1 week ago | bristolbearsrugby.com | Will Carpenter

Club Historian, Mark Hoskins takes a look at Bristol’s British and Irish Lions representatives through the years. The selection of Ellis Genge for the forthcoming British & Irish Lions tour provides the ideal opportunity to review the Bristol club’s previous contributions to these key events in the history of the game. Bristol’s first Lions tourist was forward Wallace Jarman, who toured with the British team (they weren’t called Lions in those days) to Australia in 1899.

1 week ago | bristolbearsrugby.com | Will Carpenter

Ellis Genge has become just the 12th Bristol player to named in a British & Irish Lions squad, after the Bristolian prop was selected in Andy Farrell’s 40-man touring party to take on Australia this summer. What it means ❤️#WeGoBeyond #Lions2025 pic.twitter.com/qIx6quxikq— Bristol Bears 🐻 (@BristolBears) May 8, 2025Genge, who has won 71 caps for England since debuting in 2016, was one of 13 England players to be included, and the first Bristolian since Mark Regan and Simon Shaw in 1997.

1 week ago | bristolbearsrugby.com | Will Carpenter

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1 week ago | bristolbearsrugby.com | Will Carpenter

By Mark HoskinsFixtures between Bristol and Bath date back to Bristol’s opening season, with the clubs meeting for the first time at the County Ground on October 27th 1888. This was the fourth fixture in Bristol’s history and only their second home game. They had yet to win a match, and Bath won 5-3, although Bristol’s full back ‘Sammy’ Derham had the honour of kicking the club’s first ever successful conversion.