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It's a Bristol one-two in Gallagher Premiership monthly awards
By Jon Newcombe
Free-scoring Bristol Bears winger Gabriel Ibitoye has been named Gallagher Premiership Player of the Month for October.
Ibitoye, who was nominated along with Gloucester scrum-half Tomos Williams, Saracens No 8 Tom Willis and Leicester Tigers backrow Olly Cracknell, won just under half the public vote (48%).
Ibitoye is the Bears’ second consecutive winner after Max Malins was voted as September’s Gallagher Player of the Month.
After six rounds of the Gallagher Premiership, Ibitoye is joint top of the try-scoring charts having added four tries during October . This included a breathtaking nine-minute hat-trick in Bristol’s remarkable comeback victory over Exeter Chiefs in Derby Weekend.
The 26-year-old also ranked top for metres made in October and was among the top five players for defenders beaten, clean breaks and offloads in what was a stunning ‘highlight reel’ month for the winger, with England head coach Steve Borthwick noting his impressive form in recent interviews.
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Agreed, seen far too many false dawns as an England fan and here are still far too many question marks over Borthwick and his coaching team. The Scotland and Ireland performances were still poor, even if we managed to stay on the right side of the scoreboard on one of them. France game we were fortunate but we at least played well
Go to commentsYou can’t screech publicly about player welfare as Galthie has done and then remain completely silent for a head butt off the ball. This is easily the worst most cowardy decision a ref has made in this 6N. If it is clearly a red WR must instruct referees that THEY must make that decsision.
I believe Galthies public threats and misinformation about club suspensions has created a chilling effect for officials. France and supporters generally are honest. Unfortunately this mini Trump at the helm is creating a situation where they wont be taken seriosuly inthe future in these cases. ‘The boy who cried wolf’ Galthie.
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