PAUL REES TALKS TO BRISTOL’S LONG-SERVING LOCK JOE JOYCE ABOUT THE CLUB’S TRANSFORMATION

Joe Joyce is Bristol’s longest serving player after joining nine years ago, but such are the changes the Bears have gone through in that time, moving grounds, rebranding and shuffling between the Championship and the Premiership, he feels as if he has been at three different clubs.
“It keeps you fresh,” which is not a bad thing,” said the 27-year old, 6ft 6ins, 19st second row who arrived at Bristol at the end of 2012 when the club were eighth in the Championship and going nowhere. Now they lead t...