{"id":704116,"date":"2026-01-18T11:27:11","date_gmt":"2026-01-18T11:27:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/704116\/"},"modified":"2026-01-18T11:27:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-18T11:27:11","slug":"its-time-for-bristol-bears-to-stand-up-and-deliver","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/704116\/","title":{"rendered":"It\u2019s time for Bristol Bears to stand up and deliver"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When you\u2019re shipping 49 points, as Bristol Bears did against the Bulls in Pretoria last weekend in the European Cup, you\u2019ve got to score a lot of tries \u2013 and that\u2019s exactly what Pat Lam\u2019s side did.<br \/>Their nine touchdowns at Loftus Versfeld left a Bulls side, which included 10 present or former Springboks, in disarray after a 61-49 victory.<\/p>\n<p>Now Bristol face European Cup title holders Bordeaux-Begles at Ashton Gate, with today\u2019s clash undoubtedly one of the biggest challenges of Lam\u2019s nine-year tenure as the club\u2019s director of rugby.<br \/>At the start of the season, most people would not have seen&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"When you\u2019re shipping 49 points, as Bristol Bears did against the Bulls in Pretoria last weekend in the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":704117,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8818],"tags":[5012,381,748,393,5014,4884,14097,18673,20795,4306,6875,11653,2384,12070,2385,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-704116","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bristol","8":"tag-bath","9":"tag-bristol","10":"tag-britain","11":"tag-england","12":"tag-gloucester","13":"tag-great-britain","14":"tag-jeremy-guscott","15":"tag-leicester","16":"tag-leicester-tigers","17":"tag-leinster","18":"tag-premiership","19":"tag-premium","20":"tag-sale-sharks","21":"tag-saracens","22":"tag-toulouse","23":"tag-uk","24":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115915865704923652","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/704116","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=704116"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/704116\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/704117"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=704116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=704116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=704116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}