Joe Joyce may have played his final game for Bristol Bears with Pat Lam admitting the injury he sustained at Leicester Tigers last weekend is likely to rule him out for the rest of the season.
Joyce suffered a hyperextended elbow in the closing stages of the warm-up at Welford Road and had to be taken out of the matchday squad before kick-off as the Bears were beaten 46-24.
The King of Southmead is ending his nine-year reign at his hometown club this summer to fulfil a dream of playing in Ireland by signing for Connacht. With just three Premiership regular games and up to four in Europe remaining, the severity of this latest injury and the expected recovery time is likely to take him beyond the final day of the 2022/23 campaign, leaving him on 164 appearances for the club.
