Latest Bristol rugby Podcast Episodes
Ep 167 - Raw, raucous and rip-roaring and the action at the Gate wasn't too bad either. The live pod has dropped.
Bears Beyond The Gate - April 22, 2024 20:00 - 1 hourIt's a carnival atmosphere down at the Bristol Beer Factory Taproom this week as having constantly 'talked about' doing a live pod the lads actually execute one straight after the 13-try massacre of Newcastle Falcons at Ashton Gate. It's raw and it's raucous but the lads try their best to analy...
Ep 166 - Live pod details, season card renewals, Bears Women storm to final and Falcons preview
Bears Beyond The Gate - April 14, 2024 20:00 - 41 minutesIn this week's episode we formally announce our first ever live pod, in the sense that we are inviting an audience to the Bristol Beer Factory Taproom post Falcons at 6.30pm next Sunday. If you are interested in finding out more, and even contemplating joining us, then complete the Eventbrite r...
Ep 165 - Janse takes a fancy as the Rifles Cup is retained
Bears Beyond The Gate - April 01, 2024 08:00 - 52 minutesYou’re listening to Bears Beyond the Gate, a Bristol Bears podcast made by fans for fans. We’re two and a half season cardholders at Ashton Gate who love the club, the game and all things Bears. Well, Miles is happy as Pat listens to his selection advice from the ski slopes of France and moves ...
Ep 164 - Janse takes a fancy to the Kingsholm turf as Bears retain the Rifles Cup
Bears Beyond The Gate - April 01, 2024 08:00 - 52 minutesYou’re listening to Bears Beyond the Gate, a Bristol Bears podcast made by fans for fans. We’re two and a half season cardholders at Ashton Gate who love the club, the game and all things Bears. Well, Miles is happy as Pat listens to his selection advice from the ski slopes of France and moves ...
Ep 164 - Bears batter League leaders as Saints come a cropper in BS3 yet again…
Bears Beyond The Gate - March 24, 2024 21:00 - 41 minutesIn this week’s episode Pete and Miles dial in from their respective ski resorts whilst Lee shakes his head at the whole middle classy-ness of it all. That said, it was worth the effort as the boys chew over the fantastic victory against Saints on Friday and give their thoughts on what was very...
Ep 163 - Back to business! Saints preview with help from the Telegraph's Charlie Morgan
Bears Beyond The Gate - March 20, 2024 22:00 - 1 hourIn this weeks's episode we preview the return of the Prem with help from the Telegraph's Charlie Morgan. It's been a long break but there's all to play for and as we're only three points off 6th and six points off 4th can we dare to dream? We also comment on Pat's interview on Bears TV this wee...
Ep 162 - Interview with Paul Morgan of Premiership Women's Rugby (PWR)
Bears Beyond The Gate - March 18, 2024 06:00 - 34 minutesIn the second of our occasional 'doc-pods' we head towards the end of this long fallow period by hearing from Paul Morgan, who is the Communications Lead of PWR and previously Communications Director at Premier Rugby and before that editor of Rugby World. He talks about the rebranding of the PR...
Ep 161 - Joe Joyce interview and a few other things
Bears Beyond The Gate - March 13, 2024 21:00 - 59 minutesIn this week's slightly delayed pod (technical difficulties) we hear from Bristol legend and current Galway resident Joe Joyce . He gives us some insight into what it's like getting a bit of niggle going with some of your best mates in the European Cup, speaks candidly about why he left his hom...
Ep 160 - Bears Women condemn Loughborough Lightning with a solid second half strike
Bears Beyond The Gate - February 25, 2024 21:00 - 58 minutesIt's only Pete and Lee this week down at the Bristol Beer Factory Taproom supping a couple of cheeky beers, as Miles calls in sick at the last minute. However, they still manage to fill the time, with help from listener posts, discussing the Bears Women victory against Loughborough Lightening i...
Ep 160 - Lightning strike
Bears Beyond The Gate - February 25, 2024 21:00 - 58 minutesIt's only Pete and Lee this week down at the Bristol Beer Factory Taproom supping a couple of cheeky beers, as Miles calls in sick at the last minute. However, they still manage to fill the time, with help from listener posts, discussing the Bears Women victory against Loughborough Lightening i...
Ep 159 - Big Dave Attwood interview and 'season so far' reflections
Bears Beyond The Gate - February 18, 2024 22:00 - 1 hourIn this week's BUMPER episode we hear from Dave Attwood about: His life since retirement... His time at the Bears and what it was like working under Pat... THAT semi final defeat and why it all went wrong... What he thinks about Bristol's season so far AND how we are not 'a million miles awa...
Ep 158 - Bears Together Supporters Advisory Committee docu-pod!
Bears Beyond The Gate - February 12, 2024 08:00 - 17 minutesIn the first ever Bears Beyond The Gate 'docu-pod' we hear from Kiera, Kaye and Sophie about the work of the Bears Together Supporters Advisory Committee (SAC) an initiative that was announced at the start of the season as a way of the club being able to gather more direct feedback from fans a...
Ep 157 - Banger in BS3
Bears Beyond The Gate - January 28, 2024 22:00 - 1 hourAs the Premiership takes a mid season break for the Six Nations, we review the monumental banger at Ashton Gate as Bristol maintain their seven-game home town winning streak against Bath. Basically it was just a mental game of rugby. Multiple line breaks, gorgeous offloads and 14 tries AND virtu...
Ep 156 - Dumped out of Europe twice in Galway. Where do we go from here?
Bears Beyond The Gate - January 21, 2024 22:00 - 1 hourIn this week's episode we welcome work experience fella Reg to deputise for Lee who is still in witness protection after his new year Bristol Post article - or is he just taking the Christmas Tree down? We discuss the poor result and performance against Connacht which essentially saw us dumped ...
Ep 155 - Bearpit becomes Bullring as Champions Cup hopes hang in the balance
Bears Beyond The Gate - January 14, 2024 22:00 - 1 hourVote for us at the Sports Podcast Awards 2024 and help us bring home some silverware for the Bears! Click on the link below... https://www.sportspodcastgroup.com/sports_category/best-rugby-podcast/ And in other news, the Bears lose to a decent Bulls outfit who out-muscle them in the scrum and ...
Ep 154 - Surprise Shark attack washes away the winter woes with all eyes now on the Bulls
Bears Beyond The Gate - January 09, 2024 22:00 - 1 hourIn this week's show we prepare, bake and scoff large amounts of humble pie after the surprise Bears' victory away at Sale Sharks. How can we be so bad and so good all in one week? We get the views of regular social media followers and also hear from yet another roving reporter who saw the game l...
Ep 153 - All aboard the Bristol rollercoaster with a mid-week ramble to review the fluctuating festive fortunes from Bear Country
Bears Beyond The Gate - January 04, 2024 19:00 - 54 minutesCrocodile Dundee returns to chew the Christmas cud with a somewhat unstructured ramble thought the festive period culminating in a long discussion about the impacts of last Friday's hugely disappointing defeat against Exeter 2.0 in front of sell-out crowd. Despite leading 14-12 at the break the ...
Ep 152 - Bears thump Gloucester in the 'must win' derby...
Bears Beyond The Gate - December 03, 2023 22:00 - 54 minutesIn this week's episode we relish the record breaking 51-26 victory over Gloucester and the retention of the Rifles Cup. After five losses on the bounce this was as a cathartic an experience as you are likely to get and the relief flowing around the Gate on the final whistle was palpable. We read...
Ep 151 - Bears battle bravely but Sarries score seven
Bears Beyond The Gate - November 26, 2023 22:00 - 1 hourWe slip to a fifth defeat in a row at the Stone X but battle hard for a cheeky try bonus point which was the least we deserved. We may have scored a couple of worldies but we also shipped seven and if Owen Farrell had put his boots on the right way round it could have been a lot worse. We review...
Ep 150 - Last ditch derby day defeat but positives from a powerful second period...
Bears Beyond The Gate - November 19, 2023 23:00 - 1 hourIn this week's episode - our 150th - we chew over the agonising last ditch defeat at the Rec with help from our listeners and reflect on how we really need to start getting on the right side of 'fine margins' otherwise the season is going to slip away. That said, there were plenty of positives t...
Ep 149 - Bright start fizzles out as Sale take the spoils
Bears Beyond The Gate - November 12, 2023 22:00 - 1 hourA Bristol Bears podcast made by fans for fans. Each week your hosts Pete, Lee and Miles will take a light-hearted look at developments from Ashton Gate and beyond.
Ep 148 - Disappointment down in Devon
Bears Beyond The Gate - November 06, 2023 06:00 - 47 minutesWARNING - THERE IS THE SOUND OF RAIN FALLING AT VARIOUS POINTS DURING THIS RECORDING BUT WE WERE TRYING SOMETHING NEW SO BE PATIENT WITH US! 😩 So, our unerring ability to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory continues with a second frustrating result in a week down at Sandy Park. To be fair...
Ep 147 - Defeat at the death halts winning run
Bears Beyond The Gate - October 29, 2023 21:00 - 57 minutesSo, the brief winning run is over thanks to a last gasp penalty for Quins at the death on Saturday. It was family day at the Gate but unfortunately the Bears were unable to keep all the kids happy with a mixed display that included some very good but also some frustratingly sloppy bad. Ultimatel...
Ep 146 - Bears march on as Saints slip to home defeat
Bears Beyond The Gate - October 23, 2023 22:00 - 1 hourIt's the first time in three years that we have won away at Franklin’s Gardens although after going 18-9 down early in the second half it was great to see the boys ‘dig’ themselves out of a hole and ‘sow the seeds’ of a victory with a penalty and a converted try before the break ultimately makin...
Ep 145 - Tigers tamed and Saints await
Bears Beyond The Gate - October 15, 2023 21:00 - 46 minutesWell, the waiting was over and after an extended pre-season the Premiership finally returned to Ashton Gate with the visit of Leicester Tigers. With both teams missing international players, it was an opportunity for new signings and squad players to impress, and impress they did, albeit mainly ...
Ep 144 - Cambridge given a lesson and all eyes now on the Tigers
Bears Beyond The Gate - October 08, 2023 21:00 - 54 minutesIn this week's episode we round up the Premiership Cup/pre-season campaign and reflect on the shellacking meted out to poor Cambridge who were universally challenged all over the park. It was great to see a tsunami of tries but we ultimately finished second in our group and therefore miss out on...
Ep 143 - (Pre) Season 5 gets underway as the boys finally return from their summer recess
Bears Beyond The Gate - September 25, 2023 05:00 - 36 minutesIn this term’s opener we reveal some earth shattering news from the summer break but pull ourselves together and cast an eye over the pre-season so far. After welcoming the Baa Baas to Ashton Gate with a gift of 50 plus points, shipping even more down at Sandy Park with a team requiring parenta...
Ep142 - Gloucester beaten at the Gate and our 2022/23 season review
Bears Beyond The Gate - May 14, 2023 21:00 - 1 hourIn our final episode of the season we discuss the bonus-point victory against Gloucester which wasn't quite enough to gain a Champions Cup place next year. In this bumper edition we look back at our highlights of the past year and chat about the impact some of our departing players have had on...
Ep141 - last gasp agony for Bristol at Sandy Park and the visit of Gloucester to the Gate
Bears Beyond The Gate - April 23, 2023 21:00 - 1 hourFeelings run high in BBTG Towers as the Bears fall to a 22-21 defeat away at Exeter despite playing with an extra man for 60 minutes. A high penalty count and some costly errors mean the Bears lose another winnable game and face a last-day battle for a Champions Cup place for next term. Hear ou...
Ep140 - Sale's Currys too hot for Bristol and a trip to Devon
Bears Beyond The Gate - April 17, 2023 21:00 - 1 hourIt was Go Green night at Ashton Gate but fans we're left seeing red and feeling blue after tasting defeat yet again against Sale as the Sharks glided off with a 20-36 victory. Hear our thoughts about the tactics, performances and one or two other things that caught our eye on Friday night. We d...
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