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John Evely

How to watch Scarlets v Bristol Bears pre-season game live on TV

Bristol Bears travel to the Parc y Scarlets on Friday night to take on United Rugby Championship side the Scarlets for the club's final pre-season game of the summer.

The two sides met last season in the Heineken Champions Cup with the Bears coming out on top 52-21 in arguably Pat Lam's side best performance of the campaign.

Here are all the ways you can follow the action....

READ MORE: Scarlets v Bristol Bears LIVE: Play-by-play updates from Parc y Scarlets

What time is kick-off?

The game on Friday, September 2 takes place at the Parc y Scarlets with a 7pm kick-off.

Is the game on TV or being streamed?

The great news for fans not travelling to South Wales tonight is the pre-season game is being streamed live on Scarlets’ new Recast Channel.

Recast is a subscription-free, live and on-demand pay-per-view streaming platform which gives supporters easy and affordable access to Scarlets content, with up to 85% of all income generated going directly back to the club.

Recast is free to join, easy to use, accessible from any device and affordable.

With Recast, content is priced from just 1p per minute, using an in-platform credit system, ‘Cast Credits’;. Casts can either be purchased or earned in-platform by watching ads, sharing videos or data, or by inviting friends to join.

Access to tonight's game costs 300 credits which is the equivalent to £3 but people signing up to Recast for the first time get 100 credits for free as a welcome gift.

You can sign up here.

How else can I follow the game?

Bristol Live will be live blogging the game, bringing you regular updates from the match out in Ireland as well as a match report shortly after the final whistle.

BBC Radio Bristol will not be providing live commentary from the pre-season match.

When is the Bristol team being named?

The Bears are expected to name their side to face the Scarlets at lunchtime on Friday. Pat Lam is expected to name close to his strongest available side.

What is the confirmed team news?

Scarlets: 15 Tom Rogers; 14 Steff Evans, 13 Jonathan Davies (capt), 12 Scott Williams, 11 Ryan Conbeer; 10 Sam Costelow, 9 Dane Blacker; 1 Steff Thomas, 2 Daf Hughes, 3 Javan Sebastian, 4 Vaea Fifta, 5 Tom Price, 6 Blade Thomson, 7 Tomás Lezana, 8 Sione Kalamafoni

Replacements: Phil Price, Taylor Davies, Alex Jeffries, Morgan Jones, Josh Helps, Griff Evans, Luca Giannini, Iwan Shenton, Archie Hughes, Dan Jones, Eddie James, Corey Baldwin, Ioan Nicholas.

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