Weakened Bees Face Title Favourites ; the Championship

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At various points in their campaigns most sports teams oscillate between giddy pre-season optimism, warm confidence and stone-cold realism.

After the opening-day defeat at Plymouth and with Championship favourites Bristol next on the agenda, Bees head coach Russell Earnshaw is definitely leaning towards the third option. His mood is not helped by an injury situation more akin to an afternoon spent on the Somme rather than the 80 minutes of maul defence that is a normal outing at Brickfields.

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Weakened Bees Face Title Favourites ; the Championship

The situation is particularly acute in the backs where last year's leading scorer Simon Hunt and talisman...

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