Middleton Not Banking On Ovens Being Back for Plymouth Clash ; Bristol Rugby

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BRISTOL are yet to find out whether on-loan flanker Josh Ovens - man-ofthe-match for parent club Bath at the weekend - will be available for Saturday's trip to Plymouth Albion. But head coach Liam Middleton said there is no guarantee Ovens would have come straight back into the Bristol side anyway, given the impressive efforts of Iain Grieve, James Merriman and Dan Montagu in Sunday's 33-19 win against Leeds.

Middleton has had to start planning for the trip to Brickfields on the basis the 22-year-old will not be available.

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Middleton Not Banking On Ovens Being Back for Plymouth Clash ; Bristol Rugby

But he sees it as a sign of Bristol's strength that a man-of-the- match Aviva Premiership performer...

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