By PAUL REES
Few overseas signings have had a more lasting impact in the Premiership than Steve Luatua who looks like finishing his career at Bristol seven years after joining the club.
The 33-year old back rower, capped by New Zealand and Samoa, last week signed a new contract at Ashton Gate and said he wanted to sign off with the Premiership trophy.
Bristol were in the Championship when Luatua joined them, swapping the pristine pitches in the southern hemisphere for mudheaps, but under head coach Pat Lam, who was in charge of the Blues in Auckland when Luatua signed for the franchise, they ...