By PAUL REES

IT WAS typical of fate that Max Malins’s first start for Bristol since signing for them permanently came at the club where his career had started eight years before, Saracens.
Malins spent a season on loan at the Bears when Saracens were relegated to the Championship in 2020, and admitted that leaving the Premiership champions was the hardest decision he has made.
“It was extremely tough,” said the 26-year old Malins, who missed the start of the season because he was with England at the World Cup. “I had been there for eight years and it is a...