By PAUL REES

PAT LAM is making sure that Bristol hit the ground running next season by arranging three warm-up matches, admitting they went into the current campaign short of a gallop.
The Bears lost their opening Premiership match at home to Saracens and were then heavily beaten at Wasps. It set the tone for a season which never got going and they finished 10th in the Premiership, failing to qualify for the Heineken Champions Cup.
“The review of the season started with me and looking at everything that had been done,” said Lam, the Bears’ director of rugby. “We went into the season having...