Bears Beyond The Gate

A Bristol Bears podcast made by fans for fans. Each week your hosts Pete, Lee and Miles will take a light-hearted look at developments from Ashton Gate and beyond.

Podcasting since 2019 • 236 episodes

Bears Beyond The Gate

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Ep 235 - Scrappy defeat at the StoneX, more mixed zone interviews and a Storm(ers) is brewing

In this week's episode we review yet another defeat at the StoneX but discuss whether it was quite as bad as the 30-7 score suggested.Overall, we weren't great but there were some positive 'moments' and it was good to see new players sta...

October 11, 2026 • Season 8 • Episode 235 • 1:12:56

Ep 234 - Bonus mid-week pod - Pete chats to Duncan from the Sarries fan pod 'Fezcast' to preview the game at the Stone-X on Saturday

Recorded as a two way chat this short-ish episode serves as a preview for the visit to the Stone X, where (in)famously a Bristol Senior team has never won although the Cubs did recently.Is this the year? Given our impressive start to the...

October 07, 2026 • Season 8 • Episode 234 • 26:15

Ep 233 - The crowd was flocking, the Gate was rocking and Saints were silenced - plus news from the 'NFL' style mixed zone, Sarries preview, Listener shout outs and a Goat/Anti Goat.

In this week's episode Pete, Lee and Miles crack open a cheeky beer at the Bristol Beer Factory Taproom and raise their glasses to the excellent win against Northampton Saints on Family Day.It was a game of two halves, each one with its ...

October 04, 2026 • Season 8 • Episode 233 • 1:28:23

Ep 232 - Toothless Sharks blunted by Bears' bite and we look forward to a humdinger at The Gate

In the first review of the new Prem season we discuss Bristol's first bonus point win in Manchester THIS CENTURY. There had been a fair amount of trepidation in the run up to the game but in the end it was a professional dismantling...

September 27, 2026 • Season 8 • Episode 232 • 56:03

Ep 231 - The Prem is back and the sharks are already swimming

Pete, Miles and a special 'pod royalty' guest sit down with a cheeky beer at the Bristol Beer Factory Taproom and discuss the season ahead more generally and the upcoming campaign opener at Sale in particular. It is episode 231 by the way, desp...

September 21, 2026 • Season 8 • Episode 231 • 48:49

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Fan Mail

Afternoon guys, it's uh resident of Manchester, but Bristolian in exile, Nick Spragg. Um the atmosphere yesterday was pretty typical for a sale game, pretty poor, especially considering there are about 5,000 in there. It didn't feel like it at all. Uh very few fellow Bristol fans in there too, so fair plays are the ones who travelled up. When the Rob of the Green weren't going their way early doors, the locals seemed really unhappy, and they got really frustrated with Ford 2, which probably didn't do him any favours. And they got annoyed as well with the way that we outsailed them by slowing things down, which was pretty nice to see. Um I digger down at the end uh to the front of the main stand to try and catch the players after the game, but they seemed to be doing media duties down the other end, so I waited for a bit buyer to head off. Um I did say hi to Apoco Fujo and Vermulin, though they were all on good form and seemed happy to come and spend time with fans. Um overall, the result was great, if slightly unexpected, and I was glad it was pretty much done and dusted by the time we took that silly drop out at the end. It was entertaining, uh, but the experience out there continues to be rubbish and it's not cheap at about 36 quid to stand there.