{"id":751042,"date":"2026-02-08T17:49:11","date_gmt":"2026-02-08T17:49:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/751042\/"},"modified":"2026-02-08T17:49:11","modified_gmt":"2026-02-08T17:49:11","slug":"bill-mata-happy-to-commit-future-to-bristol-bears","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/751042\/","title":{"rendered":"Bill Mata happy to commit future to Bristol Bears"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Big Bill Mata had no hesitation in reaching for a pen when Bristol Bears offered him a new contract.<\/p>\n<p>The Fiji No.8, who joined the Bears last season from Edinburgh, has become a fan favourite at Ashton Gate with his charging runs and thumping tackles.<br \/>The 34-year-old has been a constant in an injury-ravaged campaign for Bristol, appearing in all bar one of their 10 Premiership matches and three of their four Champions Cup clashes.<br \/>\u201cIt was an easy decision to renew my contract,\u201d said the 38-cap Mata. \u201cThe Bears\u2019 game-plan suits me well and my family loves it here.<br \/>Strong position<br \/>\u201cWe are in &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Big Bill Mata had no hesitation in reaching for a pen when Bristol Bears offered him a new&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":751043,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[8818],"tags":[381,21571,748,9030,1102,393,33405,4884,93212,6875,11653,712,4209,2385,16,15,1764],"class_list":["post-751042","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bristol","tag-bristol","tag-bristol-bears","tag-britain","tag-championship","tag-edinburgh","tag-england","tag-fiji","tag-great-britain","tag-gregor-townsend","tag-premiership","tag-premium","tag-scotland","tag-six-nations","tag-toulouse","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-wales"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116036276239850563","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/751042","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=751042"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/751042\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/751043"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=751042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=751042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=751042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}