Louis Rees-Zammit scored in the first half and promptly performed the Pollock pulse celebration

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Starting with Sale away and then hosting Northampton , the reigning champions, at home, few would have predicted an injury-hit Bristol to be unbeaten after two rounds of the Prem. But that is exactly where the Bears, who lost 94-33 the last time these two sides met, find themselves after securing a bonus-point victory over the Saints.

The form of Louis Rees-Zammit, the wing in his second season with Bristol after his failed NFL jaunt, approached somewhere close to its dazzling best – the speedster crossing twice.…