TOM BRADSHAW: Bristol look far from a Premiership club but Bath offer signs of hope

Pre-season friendlies are usually curious, bland affairs.

Disjointed because of the hordes of substitutes. Slightly cagey because no-one wants to rapture a ligament before the season proper begins.

And, more often than not, a hopeless gauge of how a team will do in the forthcoming campaign.

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