With the Gallagher Premiership club tight on the salary cap, he has yet to reach an agreement amid links with Glasgow and Scotland ace Sione Tuipulotu.
Bath’s first defeat of the season came after a dominant first-half display from a Bristol side inspired by flanker Santiago Grondona.
Former Leinster and Ireland second row Ross Molony is set to make his Bath debut in a pre-season clash against a familiar foe.
His preparations consisted of an on-the-fly drawn two-match series in Georgia before flying to South Africa where his English young guys carved a reputation for stickiness.
A glossy 28-page programme was published for that edition of the tournament and the preview intro certainly hyped what was set to unfold in Manchester.
Bath missed the opportunity to begin 2024 at the top of the Premiership table as they crashed to a convincing 35-22 defeat to Leicester.
South Africa U20 and England U20 will bring their World Rugby U20 Championships to a close this Friday with wholesale changes in their third place play-off encounter at Athlone Stadium.
France produced a remarkable comeback to book a World Rugby U20 Championship Final berth by dispatching England in Cape Town on Sunday.
Hand on heart, the future of international rugby is in a good place just now judging by the array of entertaining personalities that RugbyPass has encountered these past few weeks at the Junior World Championship in South Africa.
There are numerous players at the Junior World Championship who hail from families with serious reputations at the top-end of the sport... Another eye-catching family name within the England ranks is Bracken.