MY TEAM OF THE WEEK NO-YELLOW FEVER FUTURE VISION

15 C Piutau (Bristol) 14 L Rees-Zammit (Gloucester) 13 S Radradra (Bristol) 12 C Redpath (Bath) 11 J Bassett (Wasps) 10 G Ford (Leicester) 9 B Spencer (Bath) 1 E Genge (Leicester) 2 G Kloska (Bristol) 3 K Brookes (Wasps) 4 J Launchbury (Wasps) 5 C Wiese (Sale) 6 S Luatua (Bristol) 8 J Wiese (Leicester) 7 T Curry (Sale)

BEST PASS

Lloyd Evans’ delayed delivery behind the back of an onrushing defender released Chris Harris to set up a Gloucester try. It was vision and execution reminiscent of Danny Cipriani.

NATURAL CLASS

Charles Piutau produced an audacious, one-handed pick-up and try for Bristol. On BT Sport, David Flatman said: ‘If David Campese had done that we’d have watched it for years on VHS.’ Nigel Owens discovered that he had forgotten his cards after deciding to sin-bin Dragons lock Matthew Screech during the Welsh Pro 14 derby against the Scarlets in Llanelli.

BEST FINISH

Richard Capstick was outstanding for Exeter in a losing cause and the flanker did a fine impression of an outside back with a hitch-kick past Lima Sopoaga and surge to the corner. George Kloska was a shy manof-the-match recipient but the rookie homegrown hooker was superb for Bristol and epitomises the long-term aspect of Pat Lam’s Bears project.

MIXED MESSAGES

Referee Ian Tempest kept telling the scrum-halves in the Wasps v Exeter game ‘start to use it’ at the base of rucks. It was too loose and vague. Hurry it along.