Fly half John Blake became captain in 1957 and under his leadership the club developed an entertaining running style of rugby involving backs and forwards, which was years ahead of its time. Bristol Bears (officially Bristol Rugby Club or Bristol Rugby) is an English professional rugby union club based in Bristol, England.They play in Premiership Rugby, England's top division of rugby..
Latest Bristol Bears Women is delighted to announce a new Player Pathway Programme ahead of the 2020/21 season with the aim to nurture and develop ...; Latest Shock Doctor will provide the latest in custom fit mouthguard technology to Bristol Bears first and academy teams. They finished 12th with only 3 wins and 20 accumulated points, 13 behind 11th placed Worcester Warriors. Records relating to Bristol Rugby Club are held at This article is about the current rugby union club. Their three victories involved beating Worcester 28-20 at Ashton Gate, beating Sale 23-24 at the On 1 June 2018, Bristol Rugby was re-branded as the Bristol Bears following their return to the Premiership.The club announced a raft of new signings including the Notable players to have played for the club include: However, Bristol failed to secure promotion to the premiership, losing both legs of the play-off finals to London Welsh. The County Ground was no longer available for home games so the club rented a field at Radnor Road,The fiftieth anniversary was celebrated in 1938 but the next few years saw a fall in performances and the final inter-war season was a poor one. Find all the comprehensive fixtures and results, league table information, player information and more The Bristol club set and broke new records for wins in a season and points scored and goal kicking forward Gordon Cripps rewrote the individual points scoring records.
Over the ensuing seasons the fixture list went from strength to strength, consisting of most of the top English and Welsh sides. The centenary season with Nigel Pomphrey as captain was celebrated in style with a game against the Barbarians and a narrow defeat in the cup final.Bristol could not replicate the success of the previous season and ended the Following a failed attempt to immediately return to the Premiership, losing to Exeter Chiefs in the final of the play-offs, a number of first team players quit the club and financial pressures caused significant worries at the club once more.In the 2012–13 season Bristol missed out on the play-off finals, finishing fifth in the championship. Club stalwart and top points scorer Mark Tainton was appointed interim head coach for the remainder of the season. Club form peaked in 1965–66 under Derek Neate's captaincy when 39 games were won, and again in 1971–72 under Tony Nicholls. At the end of the 2012–13 season it was announced that former Ospreys head coach Sean Holley would join Bristol Rugby as the first team coach.The 2013–14 season brought a return to form with Bristol Rugby finishing top of the championship table.