@@LIVE@@**+ Bristol vs Toulon 2020" Live Stream free@ | 2020 European Rugby Challenge Cup Final LIve on HD TV. The daily search for levity in sport was fulfilled by Pat Lam as the Bristol head coach looked forward to the Challenge Cup final with former maestros Toulon in southern France on Friday.

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Asked whether his team had been practising drop goals if the scoreline is tight in the closing stages of the club’s first European final, Lam said: “We have been doing it every week since making the finals.”

And then for a split-second he was on the point of breaking a strict rugby taboo by revealing the code-word to be used if fly-half Callum Sheedy or a team-mate unleashes the play. “I actually called it…,” said Lam, before he caught himself. “I shouldn’t say what it is I’ve called it!”

So he didn’t – but once the chuckles had subsided, Lam explained it was a lesson from his time as head coach of Connacht, when they missed a Champions Cup quarter-final by not taking a losing bonus from a match they lost by nine points to Toulouse. “I have made sure we have done it every training day,” Lam said of the drop-goal practice, in the wake of New Zealand spurning the tactic in last week’s draw with Australia.