Max Lahiff has revealed his 2022/23 pre-season with Bristol Bears got off to an unfortunate start after the jetlagged prop oversleep and missed the start of the first meeting of the season.
Lahiff, 33, has a big role to play at Bristol this season with former All Black tighthead John Afoa leaving the club last month to take up a two-year player coach role at French ProD2 side Vannes.
That means Lahiff is set for plenty of game time with Kyle Sinckler likely to be away with England for a huge chunk of the league season, and a raft of promising but largely unproven tightheads below the two experienced campaigners.
