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Bears rack up another ridiculous scoreline in routing of Enisei en route to quarter-finals

Andy Uren, who scored five tries for Bristol Bears against Enisei

Bristol Bears stormed into the last eight of the European Challenge Cup as Andy Uren’s five-try display inspired a 107-19 demolition of Enisei on Saturday.

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The Bears crossed the whitewash a remarkable 17 times, matching the tally of Northampton Saints, who had romped to a 111-3 success over Timisoara Saracens just a day previously.

Uren was responsible for five of those scores, while Ryan Edwards claimed a hat-trick as the home side ran riot at Ashton Gate to secure qualification to the quarter-finals as runners-up in Pool 4.

The Bears will have to go on the road in the knockout phase, having booked a date with familiar foes La Rochelle, who secured top spot in the group thanks to a 22-10 win at Zebre.

Joining La Rochelle and Clermont Auvergne in hosting quarter-finals will be Sale Sharks and Worcester Warriors, who both celebrated victory on Saturday.

Worcester mounted a sensational late comeback at home to Stade Francais, recovering from 28-14 down at half-time to run out 36-31 victors and set up a home meeting with Harlequins in the last eight.

The Warriors were still trailing by nine points with seven minutes remaining when Ollie Lawrence got them back to within two, only for Nicolas Sanchez’s penalty – Stade’s sole points of the second period – to stretch the lead again.

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With two minutes remaining Tom Howe crossed for the Warriors but Chris Pennell’s missed conversion meant the scores stayed level until, with the clock having ticked beyond the 80, Dean Hammond capped a memorable fightback with the decisive score.

Sale, meanwhile, were more comfortable in seeing off Perpignan 39-10 at AJ Bell Stadium, Chris Ashton scoring the first of their five tries after the away side had taken an early lead via Jean-Bernard Pujol.

The Sharks qualify as Pool 3 winners courtesy of their superior head-to-head record against Connacht, whose 33-27 victory at Bordeaux Begles was enough to see them advance as the sixth seed and set up a quarter-final reunion at Sale.

Saturday’s other match saw Pau defeat Ospreys 26-21 in Pool 2.

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Challenge Cup quarter-finals:

Clermont Auvergne v Northampton Saints

La Rochelle v Bristol Bears

Sale Sharks v Connacht

Worcester Warriors v Harlequins

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JW 1 hour ago
'Passionate reunion of France and New Zealand shows Fabien Galthie is wrong to rest his stars'

Where? I remember saying "unders"? The LNR was formed by the FFR, if I said that in a way that meant the 'pro' side of the game didn't have an equal representation/say as the 'amateur' side (FFR remit) that was not my intent.


But also, as it is the governing body, it also has more responsibility. As long as WR looks at FFR as the running body for rugby in France, that 'power' will remain. If the LNR refuses to govern their clubs use of players to enable a request by FFR (from WR) to ensure it's players are able to compete in International rugby takes place they will simply remove their participation. If the players complain to the France's body, either of their health and safety concerns (through playing too many 'minutes' etc) or that they are not allowed to be part in matches of national interest, my understanding is action can be taken against the LNR like it could be any other body/business. I see where you're coming from now re EPCR and the shake up they gave it, yes, that wasn't meant to be a separate statement to say that FFR can threaten them with EPCR expulsion by itself, simply that it would be a strong repercussion for those teams to be removed (no one would want them after the above).


You keep bringing up these other things I cannot understand why. Again, do you think if the LNR were not acting responsibly they would be able to get away with whatever they want (the attitude of these posters saying "they pay the players")? You may deem what theyre doing currently as being irresponsible but most do not. Countries like New Zealand have not even complained about it because they've never had it different, never got things like windfall TV contracts from France, so they can't complain because theyre not missing out on anything. Sure, if the French kept doing things like withholding million dollar game payments, or causing millions of dollars of devaluation in rights, they these things I'm outlining would be taking place. That's not the case currently however, no one here really cares what the French do. It's upto them to sort themselves out if they're not happy. Now, that said, if they did make it obvious to World Rugby that they were never going to send the French side away (like they possibly did stating their intent to exclude 20 targeted players) in July, well then they would simply be given XV fixtures against tier 2 sides during that window and the FFR would need to do things like the 50/50 revenue split to get big teams visiting in Nov.

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