Charles Piutau will swap Bristol Bears for Japanese Rugby League One side the Shizuoka BlueRevs it has officially been confirmed overnight.
After five years in the West Country, having joined Bristol in 2018 from Ulster, Piutau, now a father of three children all born in Bristol, wasn’t ready to take his curtain call at Ashton Gate earlier this month, but the finances of English rugby dictated his future.
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