{"id":587077,"date":"2026-04-05T13:03:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-05T13:03:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/587077\/"},"modified":"2026-04-05T13:03:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-05T13:03:08","slug":"pat-lam-bristol-must-regroup-in-prem-after-cup-exit-says-director-of-rugby","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/587077\/","title":{"rendered":"Pat Lam: Bristol must regroup in Prem after cup exit says director of rugby"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Bristol won three of their four Champions Cup group games but after finishing third in their group and drawn away to six-time winners Toulouse, they faced a mammoth challenge to reach the quarter-finals.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">And while captain Fitz Harding&#8217;s try gave Bristol the perfect start, they conceded six before the break to go in 40-7 down with the game all-but done.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Bears rallied during the second 40 minutes, scoring through Kalaveti Ravouvou, James Williams and Noah Heward but Toulouse added another two of their own to send Bristol crashing out.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We started off really well and we talked before the game about the way that they play, we can&#8217;t give them anything for free and unfortunately, every turnover we made they scored &#8211; four tries off our mistakes,&#8221; Lam said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Then we were trying to get a grip hold on the game, we&#8217;re chasing the game, and it&#8217;s difficult.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;By the time we got into half-time, they [the players] knew, it was like show a bit of pride for our fans that have come out.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bristol won three of their four Champions Cup group games but after finishing third in their group and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":587078,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[567],"tags":[64,63,760,85],"class_list":["post-587077","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-rugby","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-rugby","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/587077","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=587077"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/587077\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/587078"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=587077"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=587077"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=587077"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}