{"id":629556,"date":"2025-12-13T04:53:47","date_gmt":"2025-12-13T04:53:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/629556\/"},"modified":"2025-12-13T04:53:47","modified_gmt":"2025-12-13T04:53:47","slug":"bristol-bears-vs-pau-team-news-louis-rees-zammit-starts-at-full-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/629556\/","title":{"rendered":"Bristol Bears vs Pau team news: Louis Rees-Zammit starts at full back"},"content":{"rendered":"

Bristol Bears host Section Paloise at Ashton Gate on Sunday in the second round of pool stage games in the 2025\/26 Investec Champions Cup<\/p>\n

12:04, 12 Dec 2025Updated 13:12, 12 Dec 2025<\/p>\n

Bristol Bears Gabriel Oghre in action in Investec Champions Cup (Photo: INPHO\/Mike Jones\/EPCR)<\/p>\n

Pat Lam has opted to move Scotland star Tom Jordan to fly-half with Welsh flyer Louis Rees-Zammit moving to full back, for the visit of in-form French side Pau on Sunday in Round Two of the 2025\/26 Investec Champions Cup<\/p>\n

Bristol Bears<\/a> got off to a positive start in Europe last weekend with a hard-fought 17-16 win away at United Rugby Championship side the Scarlets.<\/p>\n

Pau, who sit second in the French Top 14, were narrowly beaten 35-27 at home by Northampton Saints, putting them under pressure in a bid to escape Pool 4 with some challenging fixtures still to come.<\/p>\n

Bristol Bears:<\/strong> 15. Louis Rees-Zammit, 14. Kalaveti Ravouvou, 13. Benhard Janse van Rensburg, 12. James Williams, 11. Aidan Boshoff, 10. Tom Jordan, 9. Kieran Marmion, 1. Ellis Genge, 2. Gabriel Oghre, 3. Lovejoy Chawatama, 4. Pedro Rubiolo, 5. Joe Batley, 6. Joe Owen, 7. Benjamin Grondona, 8. Fitz Harding (c)<\/p>\n

Replacements:<\/strong> 16. Harry Thacker, 17. Jake Woolmore, 18. Max Lahiff, 19. Santiago Grondona, 20. Luka Ivanishvili, 21. Sam Wolstenholme, 22. Sam Worsley, 23. Josh Carrington<\/p>\n

Pau: <\/strong>15. Aymeric Luc, 14. Aaron Grandidier Nkanang, 13. Fabien Brau-Boirie, 12. Quentin Valentino, 11. Clement Laporte, 10. Cl\u00e9ment Mondinat, 9. Dan Robson, 1. Daniel Bibi Biziwu, 2. Lucas Rey (c), 3. Siate Tokolahi, 4. Thomas Jolmes, 5. Mickael Capelli, 6. Joel Kpoku, 7. Cl\u00e9ment Paul, 8. Carwyn Tuipulotu<\/p>\n

Replacements:<\/strong> 16. Youri Delhommel, 17. Hugo Parrou, 18. Jon Zabala Arrieta, 19. Remi Picquette, 20. Loic Credoz, 21. Thomas Souverbie, 22. Nathan Decron, 23. Thomas Carol<\/p>\n

Referee:<\/strong> Eoghan Cross (Ire)<\/p>\n

Assistant Referees<\/strong>: Robbie Jenkinson (Ire) and Padraic Reidy (Ire)<\/p>\n

TMO:<\/strong> Leo Colgan (Ire)C<\/p>\n

Citing Commissioner:<\/strong> Tim Lowry (Ire)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bristol Bears host Section Paloise at Ashton Gate on Sunday in the second round of pool stage games…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":629557,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8818],"tags":[381,21571,748,393,4884,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-629556","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bristol","8":"tag-bristol","9":"tag-bristol-bears","10":"tag-britain","11":"tag-england","12":"tag-great-britain","13":"tag-uk","14":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115710474552049755","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/629556","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=629556"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/629556\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/629557"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=629556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=629556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=629556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}