The rest of the game was to prove more of a trial.

On 18 minutes Bears had a penalty six metres out. Before they went for a tap, first two players over the ball skipped to their right to distract the defence. TF held the first thrust, but not Gwen Pyrs second time. 5-7

Lark Atkin-Davies added their next score, by a method all England fans will be familiar with. 5-12 But now Hannah Botterman was shown yellow, to even matters up a little.

Cassandra Tuffnail, no doubt introduced at No 3 to counter Botterman’s threat, made a huge break to threaten Bears’ line, but they lacked invention as they hunted for a decisive opening. Letting the move be forced into touch was the proof.

Then they reverted to their more impressive selves: a sudden cross-kick by Julia Schell was caught by a leaping Vicky Laflin, and she was over. 10-12

An unwise box-kick by Emma Swords allowed Bears to build another long attack. Gwen Pyrs ran a smart line to cross.

Half-time 10-19

As the day darkened, an offside gave Trailfinders another chance, but Dow’s kick didn’t reach touch – a costly error.

Now TF were undone by series of penalties. Another drive, finished by Atkin-Davies brought the bonus. 10-24

Schell almost found an opening, but there had been an earlier handling error. As two local products, Megan Barwick and Annabel Meta, came on, Bears’ scrum creaked. But a TF drive to the line was repulsed.

Bears’ counter-rucking was a powerful weapon throughout the game. All too often scrum-halves take their time deciding on their best move, unaware of a possible disruption to their plans. More teams might adopt this threat.

To add to TF’s woes, they once more failed to nail their line-outs. Referees couldn’t care less about scrum put-ins, but the throws have to be dart’s-champion straight.

TF paid for other unnecessary lost possessions, especially kicks ahead, but it took Bears a long while to get their fifth score, this one to Lana Skeldon. Meryl Smith converted well.

Will these Scots be performing like this in the 6N?

The last minute saw Bears camped on the hosts’ line and sure enough, it was Skeldon ensuring that the front-rows hogged all their tries. What would a critical Kiwi say to that?

Result: Trailfinders 10 Bristol Bears 38

Player of the Match: Gwen Pyrs

Afterthoughts

Once more Trailfinders showed plenty of promise, but it will take a while longer before they can match the fluency of the leading clubs in the land, and Bears are one of those. It might help if the two hookers practised five hundred throws each before next week. And they do need to complete promising moves.

I echo Tyson Beukeboom’s wish for all games to be aired on screen.

Once more an Ealing game was played late in the day. The RFU has taken a permanent dislike to Trailfinders‘ lack of seating capacity, but their lighting system needs urgent improvement first.

That helps to explain the lack of scoring, just a try in each half for Gloucester-Hartpury. The Bears’ management must be even more concerned than last week that such a strong team failed to mount a single point.

In sharp contrast G-H completed a second successive victory to consolidate their position as potential trophy winners for a second year running.

The visitors made the vital early breakthrough, Sarah Beckett going over on the far left. Emma Sing had no problem potting the conversion from the edge. 0-7

For the Bears it became a matter oif counting up the near misses. They had three big chances near the break: Reneeqa Bonner was just forced into touch near the line; Sing intercepted with G-H defences outnumbered; then the pack won a turnover as Bears mounted a driving maul.

These and other efforts remained unavailing.

Half-Time: 0-7

Scoring proved as troublesome as before, but it was the Bears who had to force the issue, and that only led to more errors, some unforced, others caused by intense pressure from the Cherry-and-White defences.

For all their power up front Bears failed to find a way through out behind. The attack coach will be pointing out too many lateral runs when a more direct approach was needed. Still it was only that single score that separated the teams through most of the game.

You can say G-H deserved to add a second try; their defence was quite outstanding. At the three-quarter mark Sing was on the end of a patient build-up fed by Lleucu George. Her conversion attempt, as tricky as the first, just fell short. 0-12

So they came, they saw, they conquered.

In front of an admirably large crowd for so cold an evening the Bears remained pontless. With international players everywhere you looked (see my census below), it was hard to explain a second bitterly disappointing performance. Five points from three games is not championship material. The message must be: ‘More clinical!’

For the Cherry-and-Whites this was ten wins on the trot against their local rivals. Either they have got a very fine team, or Sean Lynn is some coach. No, I’ll rephrase that: ‘both’ ‘and’.

Result: Bristol 0 Gloucester-Hartpury 12

Teams:

Bristol
15 LOVIBOND 14 HESKETH 13 MURRAY 12 REED (co-captain) 11 WILLS 10 AITCHISON 9 BURGESS 1 BOTTERMAN 2 ATKIN-DAViES 3 BERN 4 BURNS 5 WARD (co-captain) 6 GALLAGHER 7 JOHNES 8 R. MARSTON-MULHEARN
16 SKELDON 17 CLARKE 18 E. MARSTON-MULHEARN 19 CUNNINGHAM 20 BUTCHERS 21 BEVAN 22 M. SMITH 23 VARLEY

Glos-Pury
15 SING 14 VENNER 13 LUND 12 HEARD 11. K. TAYLOR 10 GEORGE 9 HUNT (captain) 1 PERRY 2 N. JONES 3 MUIR 4 BECKETT 5 MONAGHAN 6 CASTELLUCCI 7 BROCK 8 MATTHEWS
16 K. JONES 17 CARSON 18 TUIPULOTU 19 K. WILLIAMS 20 LEWIS 21 MATTINSON 22 GOULDEN 23 H. JONES

Officials:
Referee: Alex Thomas
ARs: Simon Adams and Kevin Williams
with thanks to rugbyreferee.net

A Census

Bears boasted the England front row, one of the two best lock forwards in world rugby and two others with England caps. Out behind two contracted Red Roses backs.

Glos-Pury had six England test players among their backs; four in the pack. Only one uncapped player in the starting XV

Strength in depth = on the bench:

Bears: five test players
G-H: seven test players

As the game unfolded, the Bears were guilty of error upon error that cost them possession and territory. It was as if the Sandy Park bogey had its beady eye on them.

Gabriella Nigrelli, another of England’s young Under 20s hopefuls, did get them in front from a drive close to the line.

But across the first half the Chiefs’ pack proved the more dominant; they twice forced their way over, first by Emily Tuttosi, then by Rachel Johnson. Gaby Cantorna (50th club cap today) kept up the admirable record of the weekend’s kickers by converting both.

Half-time 14-7

Matters turned decidedly worse for the visitors as Johnson and Cantorna repeated their medicine just after the restart. Cantorna added a penalty to stretch the lead to 17 points.

Demi Swann, Chiefs’ recent signing, saw yellow for a hair-pull, but still Bears couldn’t take advantage.

Sarah Bern did manage one of her signature tries, but the errors, handicapped now by worsening weather, refused to disappear. 24-14 – and only 10 minutes left.

It was only right and proper that Chiefs added to their lead before the close: Alex Tessier made a telling break for the ball to finish in Claudia MacDonald’s hands over the line. So Bears lost out on three counts: the match, no try-scoring bonus, no losing bonus. On such narrow margins are trophies decided.

Final score: 29-14

Teams

Exeter
15 DOIDGE 14 MACDONALD 13 KOBAYASI 12 CANTORNA 11 BUCHANAN 10 TESSIER 9 BRADLEY 1 SWANN 2 TUTTOSI 3 MENIN 4 VAN DER VELDEN 5 LEITCH (captain) 6 JEFFERIES 7 ALLEN 8 JOHNSON
16 NIELSON 17 MIDDLEBROOKE 18 HANLON 19 FRYDAY 20 MILLAR-MILLS 21 FEAUNATI 22 McDONALD 23 CRAMER

Bristol
15 LOVIBOND 14 BONNER 13 MURRAY 12 M. SMITH 11 WILLS 10 AITCHISON 9 BURGESS 1 BOTTERMAN 2 ATKIN-DAVIES 3 BERN 4 BURNS 5 WARD (captain) 6 GALLAGHER 7 BUTCHERS 8 NIGRELLI
16 SKELDON 17 PAM 18 CLARKE 19 CUNNINGHAM 20 R. MARSTON-MULHEARN 21 BEVAN 22 VARLEY 23 HESKETH

Table ​​​

                                 P​     W​      L​      Pts

Saracens                 2       2     ​0       10
Exeter​​​                     2       2     0        10
Harlequins  ​​          2        1      1         6  ​
Glos-Pury         ​​     1        1      0         5
Bears       ​​               2       1       1         5
Sale         ​​               2        1      1         5
Trailfinders      ​​​    2       0      2         1
Lightning              1        0      1         0

This imbalance in the number of games played will remain throughout the season.

Afterthought

‘Don’t panic, don’t panic!’, the season is still young, but today’s result tips the final outcome against Bears. For those top four qualifying places the need is quite simple: avoid losses. Then any bonus points can make all the difference.

For Sale this was an important staging-post. For the league, it means more evening-out: one fewer of the leading lights an odds-on bet.

G-H were on top for long periods of the game, their fluent combinations threatening to open up the Bears’ defences time and again. Yet they managed only three tries for all that endeavour.

The first try came after barely two minutes. It derived from that pet hate of mine, the caterpillar ruck. Bears took their time forming up, Keira Bevan hoisted a very deliberate box-kick, but, as so often happens, it put the opposition in charge. Sarah Beckett found herself doing her Sarah Bern turn in the centre; she broke through dangerously, took and retrieved a pass and was over.

That buoyed the home crowd.

Another chip ahead by Bevan was caught by Lleucu George who picked her spot to gain a mass of territory. Her kicking was to prove an important ingredient in G-H’s final success.

For the next twenty minutes the Cherry-and-Whites looked confident; they retained most of the possession, but couldn’t unlock the Bears’ defences. This was partly due to mishaps at the line-out. The presence of Sam Monaghan and Zoe Aldcroft among the waiting catchers points to where the fault lay.

On the half-hour everything went like clockwork: throw, catch and drive. Kelsey Jones found redemption by claiming the touchdown.

Half-time 14-0

This was far from a convincing lead. Bristol’s performance now reflected what Dave Ward must have suggested to them over the lemons. They roared on to the attack with the inevitable result: Lark Davies opened their account with her 22nd try of the season. Needless to say, she didn’t scamper down the wing on a 30 metre run. (14-7)

Both sides were guilty of handling errors that put paid to promising moves. Tatyana Heard made an exciting break, but Monaghan couldn’t hold her less than friendly pass.

The Bristol midfield pair, Amber Reed and Phoebe Murray, showed how things should be done. In thickish traffic Reed hoisted a chip which Murray somehow managed to regather. A few moments later there was Davies once more finishing off a drive to the line. That was her 23rd offering of the season. By my calculations, that leaves her just one score behind the all-time record-holder in the Prem 15s, Kelly Smith, who was on hand to observe events. Sadly for Elinor Snowsill her conversion attempt ricocheted off a post. (14-12)

Nerves jangled again.

At least the hosts finished the game well in charge. A delightful sequence saw the forwards drive remorselessly at the visitors’ line. Finally the chief puppeteer, Mo Hunt, sent the ball wide right, where Heard offered Rachel Lund a clear run to the line.

Result: Gloucester-Hartpury 21 Bristol Bears 12
Player of the Match: Alex Matthews

Teams

G-H
1 Muir 2 K. Jones 3 Delgado 4 Monaghan 5 Aldcroft 6 Matthews 7 Lewis 8 Beckett 9 Hunt 10 George 11 Venner 12 Heard 13 Lund 14 Rugman 15 Sing
Bench: 16 N Jones 17 Buggy 18 Tuipulotu 19 Learned 20 Brock 21 Blackburn 22 Bridger 23 Neumann

Bristol Bears:
1 Pam 2 L. Davies 3 Muir 4 Cunningham 5 Burns 6 Butchers 7 Molloy 8 Marston 9 Bevan 10 Snowsill 11 Coles 12 Reed 13 Murray 14 Wills 15 Lovibond
Bench: 16 Phillps 17 Pyrs 18 Mulhearn 19 Barwick 20 King 21 Burgess 22 Skuse 23 White

Afterthoughts

It’s unlikely the winners’ next opponents, either Exeter Chiefs or Saracens, will have been greatly perturbed by what they saw. G-H really should have put more points on the board. The coaching staff and analysts will seek out reasons why they didn’t. Did the importance of the result affect the team? Surely not, they have so many highly experienced operators in their ranks.

There was a decent crowd of over 2,000 present, but by today’s standards somewhat disappointing. Visiting fans didn’t have far to come, and they knew they could look forward to great tussles all over the field.

The final fixture: Saturday 24 June, KO 15.00, Kingsholm, Gloucester
Gloucester-Hartpury v Exeter Chiefs or Saracens

For the first time Wayne Barnes refereed a Prem 15s game.

This was a worryingly one-sided contest for Bristol, Quns’ running in five tries by half-time. Their power up front took an early toll, Amy Cokayne breaking off an advancing maul to score; Lagi Tuima converted. (7-0)

When Ellie Mulhearn was shown yellow for a high tackle, it cost the Bears dear, Quins adding two more tries. Cokayne completed a hat-trick inside 40 minutes.

Half-time: 29-0

Ellie Kildunne started the second half with a picture-perfect 50-22. She caught a relieving kick off the bounce, then delivered a long punt over the head of the defending winger to put Quins in another attacking position. It’s a surprise that her all-round kicking skills haven’t been exploited more at club and international level.

It was Chloe Edwards who profited with the hosts’ sixth try. Dave Ward showed his feelings by making four changes as early as the 46th minute. (36-0)

Bears finally got their motor going. Almost inevitably it was Lark Davies who supplied the first try. (36-7).They were far more prominent now, but Kildunne punctured their hopes again with a lovely try after fine approach work by Léna Corson, Shaunagh Brown and izzy Mayhew. (43-7)

Near the end Grace White, who had a fine game on short rations, skipped away to score the Bears’ second. But Quins were intent on a half-century. An attacking line-out led to a final score to Bella McKenzie. But her conversion struck wood and stayed out.

How like England can you get? Six of their eight tries were scored by the Quins forwards. We have to hope that an injury to Emma Swords will not prove costly to her and her team. Lucy Packer was allowed back on as this was an HIA.

Result: Quins 48 Bears 14

Player of the Match: Rosie Galligan

Teams
Quins
1. Chloe Edwards 2. Amy Cokayne (co-captain) 3. Bryony Cleall 4. Rosie Galligan 5. Sarah Bonar 6. Shaunagh Brown 7. Emily Robinson 8. Jade Konkel-Roberts 9. Lucy Packer 10. Emily Scott (co-captain) 11. Lauren Torley 12. Lagi Tuima 13. Izzy Mayhew 14. Freya Aucken 15. Ellie Kildunne
Bench: 16. Rosie Dobson 17. Sheree Cooper 18. Hannah Duffy 19. Kaitlan Leaney 20. Lénaig Corson 21. Emma Swords 22. Bella McKenzie 23. Beth Blacklock

Bristol
15. Courtney Keight, 14. Grace White, 13. Phoebe Murray, 12. Amber Reed (c), 11. Reneeqa Bonner, 10. Elinor Snowsill, 9. Keira Bevan; 1. Simi Pam, 2. Lark Davies, 3. Ellie Mulhearn, 4. Beth Stafford, 5. Delaney Burns, 6. Claire Molloy, 7. Manon Johnes, 8. Rownita Marston.
Bench:: 16. Holly Phillips, 17. Gwenllian Pyrs, 18. Hannah Sims, 19. Bryonie King, 20. Bo Osborne-Clark, 21. Lucy Burgess, 22. Jo Smith, 23. Amy Coles

The table grows even more distorted, Quins’ extra Christmas-tide fixture leaving them as the only club to complete six matches.

Table ​​​

                                 P​     W​      L​      Pts

Gloucester-H        5       5     ​0        24
Exeter​​​                     5      4      1        20
Harlequins  ​​         6        4      2       19  ​
Bristol​​​                   5        3      2        15
Sale                   ​​     4       3       1        13
UWW      ​​              4        2      2        11
Saracens​​               4        2      2        10
Lightning         ​​​    5       0       5          3
Wasps                   4       0       4          0
DMPS ​​                  4       ​0​       4          0

This was announced as Shaunagh Brown’s final game for Quins, and, we must assume, her final game of rugby. She was carried off the field smiling on the shoulders of her team-mates.

She has added a lot of positive publicity for English rugby during her relatively brief career at the top level. Everyone wishes her well.

Only five ex-Wasps were on show today.

Bristol Bears v Saracens

Probably not, but a game started at 2.30 called a halt at 5.15

It all happened in the first half. Five minutes from kick-off. Georgia Evans sustained a nasty injury to her shoulder; her onfield treatment took a quarter-of-an-hour. Only a few moments after she was applauded from the field Cara Wardle made a big run but suffered a second injury on contact. She too left the field. Charlie Gayther, the referee, had to call a halt, since the one doctor on call was already tending to the first patient.

The match restarted 65 minutes after kick-off. Just eight minutes had been played.

Sarries had to work very hard to put the game to bed. For long periods they seemed to be cruising to victory, the assaults led by Poppy Cleall, Ella Wyrwas, Holly Aitchison and Alev Kelter. They were 17-7 up at half-time, partly due to an interception pass from Phoebe Murray that let Alysha Corrigan run almost the length of the field.

Sarries had almost finished the job when the Bears launched two memorable assaults. Both involved driving mauls. The first was astonishing as it pushed the vaunted Sarries pack back a good 20 metres, (try Alysha Butchers). The second (Sarah Bern) made a signal difference: it assured the hosts of a bonus point for their fourth try, an extra losing point and, even more important, a one-point nudge above Quins to restore them to second place in the table.

Amber Reed had had a day she would prefer to forget, her kicks from hand rarely finishing as planned, and her hands let her down in unfamiliar fashion. But on 80 minutes, with those two points desperately needed, she returned to type and nailed a great conversion into the wind.

Result: 26-30

Table ​​​                      P​     W​      L​       D    Pts

Saracens​​               14      13      1     0    62
Bristol​​​                   15      ​11      4     0    56
Harlequins  ​​         15      11      4     0  ​  55
Exeter​​​                    15      10     4     1     51
Wasps                    15        8     6      1 ​  45
Loughborough ​​​     15       8      6     1    43
Gloucester-H        14        6      ​7     1    37
Worcester​​              15        4     11     0   24
Sale                   ​​      14         1     13    0      7
DMPDS​​                  15         ​0​    15    0      0

Officials:

Bristol Bears v Saracens
Referee: Charlie Gayther
ARs: Dave Philpot and Holly Wood

with thanks to rugbyreferee,net

Afterthought

I return to a pet subject: why did Alev Kelter join Sarries? It didn’t happen at the start of the season, which would have been more understandable. Instead, the Eagles’ greatest player, having decided to devote herself to 15s, joined the runaway leaders of the Prem 15s. What did the RFU think about it? They can be very media-shy when they want to be. But this move runs counter to the broad aims of the league in more ways than one.

Of course she fancied joining a top team with a proven record, but what good does it do to the state of English rugby? She takes the place of a native-born player in the side and – certainly in today’s game – takes the kicks at goal instead of, say, Holly Aitchison. who might be on call for kicking duties against the USA in the World Cup.

How does Kelter’s move help to balance out the league? Of course, it doesn’t, and under current regulations a top club can apparently mop up a leading overseas player whenever it wants to.

The RFU is busy trying to help DMPDS out of their misfortunes. What if Kelter had been directed there? ‘It’s a free country!’ comes the cry, but when Nigel Melville was in charge at Twickenham Towers, he hinted at the possibility of ‘inviting’ players to switch clubs, in the name of competition. Other people are in charge now, probably with other ideas.

This is in part a reflection of the awkward position the league is in, hovering between pro and amateur status. So long as the ten clubs aren’t offering their players the mouth-watering salaries men earn, London will remain the destination of choice. Sale, Worcester and other clubs can only look on and wonder.

The one big surprise is Clara Nielson, the only Red Rose the Bears had available all last season; she was their captain too. The other names are Chelsea Jones, Gemma Rowland, Lauren Smyth, Megan Wynne, Serena Settembri and Stef Evans. The only definite news concerns Megan Wynne, who returns to Bath Ladies after a spell on loan at Shaftesbury Park.

The name Stef Evans will ever be associated with the #icare movement that she set up at the start of the year as a counter-whack to the remarkable statement ‘nobody cares’, presumably made by a nobody. She has provided a material difference to the game by creating the company Ruggette RFC, to provide comfortably fitting kit for women.
The presence of Welsh names in the list renews doubts about the future of the vast cohort of Welsh players ‘invited’ to join English clubs by their ever-attentive national union.
We are left wondering where Ward’s scouts will be casting their eyes as they look for reinforcements to the Bears’ playing-strength. Are Quins and Sarries forming a thin red line to protect their troops?

It’s a plus that he is a Bristol man himself.

It’s very much end of the season with only one fixture still to play, so his eyes will be fixed on starting the Bears’ 2021-2 season at full blast. By then they might hope to have Amber Reed and Sarah Bern restored to full fitness.

Now for Bears to offer terms to Abbie Ward of Quins. She’s quite promising! If not, the next Bears-Quins fixture would be a first in Prem 15s annals.

A fiery first half saw seven tries from Wasps leaving Bristol with work to do going into the second- the home side came back with two of their own but Wasps added three more to the board to total a 10-64 win.

It was a quick start to the game when Muir turned over the ball from the kick off and left Burton to play and take Wasps over the line in the first 30 seconds of play.

Next up it was the turn of Boatman on her debut after an intercept from Crake and assist from Captain Alder set Boatman up for her first in a Wasps shirt. Shortly followed by a second from Burton, set up by fellow England 7s player Quansah on the wing.

Despite going a man down in the 18th minute- the points continued to come for Wasps with four more tires before the half time whistle. Including two speedy efforts from Captain Alder, a one man show spectacular from Crake, and a skilled finish from Jones – who’s 5th successful conversion took the team into halftime 45 points ahead.

“It really felt like things clicked today and we corrected things that were shown up in the previous two games. I’m really excited to see us progress even more with every game we play as we settle into the season”

Elizabeth Crake, No. 6

It was a slower start to the second half that came with three changes in the Wasps line up in the first 10minutes that welcomed Nye, Williams and Ransley to the field.

It was the turn of the front row to add some points to the scoreboard with upfront tries from Ransley and Muir in the 50th and 57th minutes. But a sneaky try from Bristol’s replacement scrum half, Settembri, after a loose ball at the lineout put Bristol on the board and back in the fight.

In the second half we also saw the return of McMahon following her injury at the start of the season, welcomed to the field alongside Afilaka, Caux and Rowland. In the 60th minute it was the turn of Boatman to make it a debut two and a try under the posts after a runaway from Burton.

It was the hosts who brought the game to a close- Coles sneaking their second in the corner on the blow of the final whistle.

A huge performance from Wasps to secure the bonus point win on the road and a 4th place position in the league after three rounds. Next week they face DMP Sharks back at Twyford Avenue.

Described by Liz Crake as an inevitable “dog fight”, this week’s events did not disappoint when Wasps took on Bristol at Shaftsbury park. Wasps have remained victorious over the hosts in their previous encounters of the Tyrrell’s competition. But with Bristol sitting below them in fourth place the stakes were high for both teams.

The hosts got off to a flying start with an early penalty taken by Elinor Snowsill landing them the first points on the board. But Wasps were quick to retaliate- a penalty earned them a line out in Bristol’s 22 and a driving maul took Hannah West flying over the line.

Right down to the final play of the half, possession and power swung between both teams- with Bristol trying to penetrate Wasps defence. But when Wasps fell a man short, Bristol took their opportunity to win a penalty try from a scrum on Wasp’s 5m, securing them the lead at half time.

Determined to maintain their unbeaten run over Bristol, Wasps came back from the sheds ready to sting. Not long into the second half, Hannah Edwards closed the gap between the teams with a penalty kick shortly followed by another from Lizzie Goulden- Wasps now had the lead with 20 to go.

Looking to solidify their lead over the hosts, Wasps maintained their dominance in the second half searching for gaps in Bristol’s defence. With minutes left in the game, Claudia MacDonald, returning to the field from injury, made her mark sniping through a gap to take her over the white line and take Wasps to an 8 point lead.

A huge game for both teams, but Captain Kate Alder lead her team to victory against Bristol Bears once again- the final score 10-18. Testament to her endless energy on attack and flawless defence, she was named Player of the match by Heather Fisher and Jonnie Hammond.

Wasps Ladies

15.Abby Dow, 14.Katie Mason, 13.Gemma Rowland, 12.Kate Alder, 11.Tova Derk, 10.Hannah Edwards, 9.Lucy Nye; 1. Isabel Rico, 2.Hannah West, 3.Mica Evans, 4. Alex Powell, 5.Liz Crake, 6.Sarah Mitchelson, 7.Claire Molly, 8.Harriet Millar-Mills

Replacements: 16.Louise Dodd, 17.Mica Evans, 18.Nora Baltruweit, 19.Edel McMahon, 20.Claudia MacDonald, 21.Lizzie Goulden, 22.Makeda Lewis

Bristol Bears Women

15. Lauren Smyth, 14. Lilly Stoeger-Goddard, 13. Lucy Attwood, 12. Lucie Skuse, 11. Phoebe Murray, 10. Elinor Snowsill, 9. Lucy Burgess; 1. Naomi Keddie, 2. Clara Nielson (CC), 3. Sarah Bern, 4. Hollie Cunningham, 5. Siwan Lillicrap, 6. Ebony Jefferies, 7. Poppy Leitch, 8. Row Marston

Impact Players: 16. Charlie Budge, 17. Caryl Thomas, 18. Ellie Mulhearn, 19. Daisie Mayes, 20. Charlotte Wright-Haley, 21. Becky Hughes, 22. Lois Bird

Courtesy of Wasps