{"id":602129,"date":"2025-11-29T22:12:17","date_gmt":"2025-11-29T22:12:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/602129\/"},"modified":"2025-11-29T22:12:17","modified_gmt":"2025-11-29T22:12:17","slug":"match-report-bristol-bears-46-12-northampton-saints","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/602129\/","title":{"rendered":"Match Report: Bristol Bears 46-12 Northampton Saints"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Worsley added another three to Bristol\u2019s tally after 74 minutes, when Saints were found off their feet at the breakdown, and Saints found themselves down to 14 men again when injury forced try-scorer Litchfield from the field with Northampton\u2019s bench already depleted.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Bristol, again, used their extra man instantly and sent their driving maul over off an attacking lineout to see Luka Ivanishvili score and end the match with the scoreline swung 46-12 in the home side\u2019s favour.<\/p>\n<p>Saints head into the Investec Champion Cup next weekend, with a trip to Section Paloise first up for Northampton in the competition they reached the final of last term.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>LINE-UPS:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Bears:<\/strong> 15 Jordan, 14 Bates, 13 Janse van Rensburg, 12 Williams, 11 Ravouvou, 10 Worsley, 9 Marmion; 1 Woolmore, 2 Thacker, 3 Chawatama, 4 Rubiolo, 5 Batley, 6 Grondona, 7 Harding (c), 8 Mata.<br \/>Replacements: 16 Oghre, 17 Lahiff, 18 Halliwell, 19 Owen, 20 Ivanishvili, 21 Wolstenholme, 22 Rees-Zammit, 23 Boshoff.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Saints:<\/strong> 15 Furbank (c), 14 Todaro, 13 Litchfield, 12 Thame, 11 Caqusau, 10 F Smith, 9 McParland; 1 Iyogun, 2 Wright, 3 Davison, 4 Prowse, 5 Van Der Mescht, 6 Kemeny, 7 Graham, 8 Chick.<br \/>Replacements: 16 R Smith, 17 West, 18 Kundiona, 19 Benson, 20 Pearson, 21 James, 22 Hutchinson, 23 Pater.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Worsley added another three to Bristol\u2019s tally after 74 minutes, when Saints were found off their feet at&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":602130,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8818],"tags":[381,748,393,4884,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-602129","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bristol","8":"tag-bristol","9":"tag-britain","10":"tag-england","11":"tag-great-britain","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115635286359384311","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/602129","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=602129"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/602129\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/602130"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=602129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=602129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=602129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}