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Bristol Bears announce raft of re-signings

Pat Lam - PA

US Eagles fly-half AJ MacGinty, this season’s leading points scorer in the Gallagher Premiership, is one of 10 Bristol players to have signed new deals with the club.

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The 34-year-old is leading the race to become the first player to 100 league points having taken his tally to 87 in the record 54-24 win at Leicester in round eight last weekend.

MacGinty limped off in that game and Bristol have yet to disclose how long the Irish-born playmaker will be out for, but his decision to stay put at Ashton Gate is great news for the Bears given how important he is to their attacking system.

His replacement on Friday night, Sam Worsley, has also put pen to paper on a new deal, while dynamic hooker Gabriel Oghre, who toured New Zealand with England last summer, also extends his stay with the club.

Powerhouse Argentina back-row Santiago Grondona is another to commit his future, alongside versatile centre James Williams.

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Long-serving loosehead prop Jake Woolmore, who has made 161 appearances for the club since arriving from Jersey in 2018, extends his stay with the Bears into a seventh season.

Also penning extensions are highly-rated duo, Jack Bates and Joe Jenkins, who are home-grown products like Worsley, with all three featuring heavily in the Gallagher Premiership and Champions Cup already this season, while current Bristolian Academy forwards Paddy Pearce and Jimmy Halliwell will continue as Bears.

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Director of Rugby, Pat Lam, said: “We’re building a squad that can play the Bears way, with a mixture of guys that have been on the journey for a number of years and the addition of some quality international players. But the most exciting part is that we are bringing through a group of homegrown young players who have taken their opportunity through hard work and desire to do well for their community.

“It’s an exciting time to be part of this club, and following the announcements of Tom Jordan and Pedro Rubiolo already, it’s fantastic to see a core group of players – who have been in excellent form – commit their futures early. They want to be part of what we are doing.

“It’s also pleasing to see the power and success of our Academy pathway, with five of today’s announcements current or former Academy players and four – Sam Worsley, Jimmy Halliwell, Paddy Pearce and Joe Jenkins – a part of the 2022 Championship winning Bears U18s side.”

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JW 3 hours ago
Where is the new breed of All Black 10?

Players like Prendergast and Finn Smith already have a few seasons at top club level under their belt and are now test players, at an age when NZ players make their debuts in SR.

That’s just a difference in standards. You’re confusing SR for being their local domestic comps, where it’s more accurately comparable to Champions Cup, apart from that teams are happy to throw games as it’s in a bit of a limbo in terms of importance atm.


All these kids have been playing for a comparable NPC team for years now. Sam is no where near ready for tests but he has a great temperament, much like Sextons, that makes it a good choice to speed up his development. He wasn’t even a comparable Super Rugby starter before playing for Ireland, so not a great comparison.


Fin would be much better example, but then England don’t have 3 world class Test tens in front of him (not that I’d put Beauden their but obviously in terms of young NZ players chances, he is). Would he otherwise have debuted at the same age as Fergus Burke (injury and leaving withstanding), around 24, a couple of years later? England also aren’t as pedantic to who they give jerseys to, in NZ a test jersey is very hard earned for the most part.


In general I think the effects are as you say, but the only difference is the money involved, as you yourself said, their paths are just as all over the show being loaned out playing for clubs etc. My solution to that, and what you perceive as the problem, would be to introduce university football that utilitizes the large investment they have into high performance sport.

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