By NEALE HARVEY
PAT Lam’s relentlessly bullish policy of raising expectation will inspire Bristol’s homegrown youngsters to fight for first team places, insists senior academy manager Gethin Watts.
A Rugby Paper survey reveals that high-flying Bristol are currently bottom of the pile when it comes to fielding homegrown players in this season’s Premiership, with just one in five of their starting XV over the first seven rounds having come through the club’s academy.
Two stints in the Championship and vigorous recruitment aimed at competing domestically and in Europe explains much of that, but...