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Grondona and Cripps add to Bears injury list
Western Daily Press
|November 03, 2025
BRISTOL Bears lost two more back row players to injury inside the first 18 minutes of Friday night's 49-19 Prem Rugby Cup defeat to Bath
Flanker Kofi Cripps and number eight Ben Grondona both departed to disrupt Bristol’s flow, the Bears having initially taken the lead through a maul try by hooker Tomas Gwilliam, who went on to score a brace.
This story is from the November 03, 2025 edition of Western Daily Press.
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