{"id":294188,"date":"2025-12-02T03:40:21","date_gmt":"2025-12-02T03:40:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/294188\/"},"modified":"2025-12-02T03:40:21","modified_gmt":"2025-12-02T03:40:21","slug":"rees-zammit-future-takes-turn-as-comments-in-tv-interview-say-it-all-rugby-sport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/294188\/","title":{"rendered":"Rees-Zammit future takes turn as comments in TV interview say it all | Rugby | Sport"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Louis Rees-Zammit is loving life back in the Premiership with Bristol Bears as speculation over his long-term future continues to rumble on. Reez-Zammit joined Bristol in the summer and came off the bench during his side&#8217;s hugely impressive 46-12 win over Northampton Saints on Saturday night.<\/p>\n<p data-mce-linkchecker-status=\"valid\">The winger signed a one-year contract at Ashton Gate upon his return to the UK following his exploits in the NFL, as he had agreed to sign up to the <a data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/sport\/rugby-union\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">R360<\/a> breakaway league next year. The rebel league, fronted by former <a data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/latest\/england-rugby-team\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">England<\/a> international <a data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/latest\/mike-tindall\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Mike Tindall<\/a>, has spent months targeting high-profile stars from around the globe to launch the competition with impetus.<\/p>\n<p>But in the latest in a number of setbacks, the launch of the new competition has been pushed back to 2028, meaning there are real question marks over what will happen once his one-year deal at Bristol comes to an end.<\/p>\n<p>For now, though, he says he&#8217;s enjoying life at Ashton Gate. Speaking to <a data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tntsports.co.uk\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">TNT Sports<\/a> after the game, he said: &#8220;I absolutely love it. It&#8217;s so good to be back in the Premiership. It&#8217;s amazing to be at Bristol as well.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The whole club, my team-mates, they&#8217;ve all made me feel so welcome. The supporters as well. We get such a good turnout every week.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>His impact has also been hailed by team-mate Harry Randall, who said: &#8220;He&#8217;s had a very big impact. The person he is coming into a squad.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe&#8217;s brilliant for our commercial team, I should think! He&#8217;s probably brought a few more followers for them!<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;But he&#8217;s been brilliant. He&#8217;s fitted in seamlessly, and it&#8217;s been a joy to have him round the place. He&#8217;s massive for us to have on the field, as you can see from the small period of time he&#8217;s been here already.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Commenting on the win, Rees-Zammit added: &#8220;Yeah it&#8217;s absolutely massive for us. We spoke about it last year.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We won a lot on the road and not so much at Ashton Gate, and we kind of want to turn that around. So now we&#8217;ve got three out of three at Ashton Gate, and it&#8217;s absolutely massive for us.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Bristol Bears coach Pat Lam has remained tight-lipped over the Welsh star&#8217;s future beyond the season, saying:\u00a0 &#8220;I\u2019m going to be consistent on recruitment.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If I have something to tell you, I\u2019ll let you know. I\u2019d love to keep all my players and bring more players in, and would love to have as many world-class players as I can.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Louis Rees-Zammit is loving life back in the Premiership with Bristol Bears as speculation over his long-term future&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":294189,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[40189,22069,5903,15685,118921,101,56,54,55,9015],"class_list":["post-294188","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-rugby","tag-bristol-bears","tag-louis-rees-zammit","tag-rugby","tag-rugby-section","tag-rugby-news","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-wales-rugby-team"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294188","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=294188"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294188\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/294189"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=294188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=294188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=294188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}