{"id":90223,"date":"2025-05-10T14:08:13","date_gmt":"2025-05-10T14:08:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/90223\/"},"modified":"2025-05-10T14:08:13","modified_gmt":"2025-05-10T14:08:13","slug":"how-to-watch-bristol-bears-v-bath-rugby-live-on-tv-for-free-and-full-team-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/90223\/","title":{"rendered":"How to watch Bristol Bears v Bath Rugby live on TV for free and full team news"},"content":{"rendered":"

Bristol Bears will host Bath Rugby at the Principality Stadium on Saturday in Round 16 of the 2024\/25 Gallagher PremiershipBRISTOL, ENGLAND – JANUARY 26: Bristol Bears’ Kalaveti Ravouvou during the Gallagher Premiership Rugby match between Bristol Bears and Newcastle Falcons at Ashton Gate on January 26, 2025 in Bristol, England. (Photo by Bob Bradford – CameraSport via Getty Images)<\/p>\n

Bristol Bears are looking to restart their charge to make the Gallagher Premiership play-offs with a victory over top of the table Bath Rugby in Cardiff today.<\/p>\n

This is the 259th meeting between the two clubs, Bristol are comfortably ahead overall, with 146 wins and 93 defeats. There have been 19 draws.<\/p>\n

READ MORE: Bristol Bears vs Bath Rugby LIVE: Play-by-play updates from the Principality Stadium<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Here are all the ways you can follow all the action this weekend…<\/p>\n

When is the game?<\/p>\n

Bristol Bears vs Bath Rugby<\/strong> is being played on Saturday, May 10 at the Principality Stadium in Cardiff.<\/strong><\/p>\n

What time is kick-off?<\/p>\n

The kick-off time is at 3.05pm.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Is the game on TV or being streamed?<\/p>\n

Yes. The match has been selected to be shown live by broadcasters TNT Sports<\/strong> and online on the discovery+<\/strong> app.<\/p>\n

The game will be shown live on TNT Sports 1 with coverage starting at 2.30pm.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The match has also been selected to be shown for free on ITV.<\/strong><\/p>\n

This weekend’s game will be shown live on ITV4 with coverage also starting at 2.30pm.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Highlights will also be available on the Premiership Rugby website<\/strong> <\/a>shortly after the game.<\/p>\n

How else can I follow the game?<\/p>\n

If you are not going to be inside the stadium, and even if you are, BristolLive<\/strong> <\/a>and SomersetLive<\/a> <\/strong>will be live blogging the match bringing you all the build-up, team news, live play-by-play match updates, reaction, stats, analysis, interviews and highlights from inside the ground.<\/p>\n

Will there be live radio commentary of the match?<\/p>\n

BBC Radio Bristol<\/a> <\/strong>and will also be providing live commentary of the game.<\/p>\n

What’s the team news?<\/p>\n

Bristol Bears: <\/strong>15. Rich Lane (58 apps), 14. Kalaveti Ravouvou (28 apps), 13. Benhard Janse van Rensburg (46 apps), 12. James Williams (51 apps), 11. Gabriel Ibitoye (55 apps), 10. AJ MacGinty (49 apps), 9. Harry Randall (142 apps); 1. Ellis Genge (58 apps), 2. Gabriel Oghre (39 apps), 3. Max Lahiff (107 apps), 4. Josh Caulfield (34 apps), 5. Joe Batley (71 apps), 6. Steven Luatua (150 apps), 7. Fitz Harding (c) (93 apps), 8. Viliame Mata (14 apps).<\/p>\n

Replacements<\/strong>: 16. Will Capon (97 apps), 17. Yann Thomas (128 apps), 18. George Kloska (61 apps), 19. James Dun (50 apps), 20. Joe Owen (32 apps), 21. Kieran Marmion (48 apps), 22. Siva Naulago (43 apps), Santiago Grondona (12 apps).<\/p>\n

Bath Rugby:<\/strong> 15 Tom de Glanville, 14 Joe Cokanasiga, 13 Louie Hennessey, 12 Orlando Bailey, 11 Austin Emens, 10 Ciaran Donoghue, 9 Louis Schreuder; 1 Francois van Wyk, 2 Jasper Spandler, 3 Archie Griffin, 4 Ewan Richards \u00a9, 5 Ross Molony, 6 Josh Bayliss, 7 Ethan Staddon, 8 Arthur Green<\/p>\n

Replacements: <\/strong>16 Kepu Tuipulotu, 17 Arthur Cordwell, 18 Kieran Verden, 19 Will Jeanes, 20 Tom Cowan, 21 Tom Carr-Smith, 22 Ruaridh McConnochie, 23 Miles Reid<\/p>\n

Who are the officials?<\/p>\n

Referee:<\/strong> Luke Pearce<\/p>\n

Assistant Referees:<\/strong> Dan Jones and Simon Harding<\/p>\n

TMO<\/strong>: David Rose<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bristol Bears will host Bath Rugby at the Principality Stadium on Saturday in Round 16 of the 2024\/25…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":90224,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8818],"tags":[192,381,21571,748,393,4884,208,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-90223","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bristol","8":"tag-bbc","9":"tag-bristol","10":"tag-bristol-bears","11":"tag-britain","12":"tag-england","13":"tag-great-britain","14":"tag-itv","15":"tag-uk","16":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114483934211939384","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90223","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=90223"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90223\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/90224"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}