{"id":815171,"date":"2026-10-27T06:00:11","date_gmt":"2026-10-27T06:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/815171\/"},"modified":"2026-10-27T06:00:11","modified_gmt":"2026-10-27T06:00:11","slug":"totoa-auvaa-bristol-sign-samoan-forward-sacked-by-saracens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/815171\/","title":{"rendered":"Totoa Auvaa: Bristol sign Samoan forward sacked by Saracens"},"content":{"rendered":"

Bristol Bears have signed Samoan forward Totoa Auvaa, two weeks after he was sacked by Saracens.<\/p>\n

Auvaa, 21, was involved in a nightclub altercation with England cricketers Ben Stokes and Gus Atkinson in June.<\/p>\n

He was let go by Sarries<\/a> following another incident in St Albans, which police are investigating.<\/p>\n

“His agent reached out to me to see if I would be willing to help him and give him a second chance,” Bristol’s director of rugby Pat Lam said.<\/p>\n

“I’ve always believed that young people deserve the opportunity to learn from those experiences, grow and become better people.”<\/p>\n

Lam, himself a former Samoan international, told Bristol’s website, external<\/a> he believed the club could help provide support to Auvaa and was the right place for him to develop on and off the field.<\/p>\n

“Totoa is a big, physical young man with enormous potential, who unfortunately has made some mistakes since arriving from a small village in Samoa to the massive city of London.<\/p>\n

“Having spent time with Totoa, I feel confident that we can provide him with the mentorship, guidance, support and structure to give him the best possible opportunity to succeed, not just as a rugby player, but as a person – someone his parents and family all the way back in Samoa will be proud of.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bristol Bears have signed Samoan forward Totoa Auvaa, two weeks after he was sacked by Saracens. Auvaa, 21,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":815172,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[59,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-815171","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-gb","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/815171","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=815171"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/815171\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/815172"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=815171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=815171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=815171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}