Wales and Bristol star Louis Rees-Zammit has called for an end to artificial playing surfaces in top-flight rugby.
Rees-Zammit played in the Bears' 30-7 defeat by Saracens on Saturday at the StoneX Stadium, and posted a picture on social media showing a heavily scarred right leg.
Prem clubs Saracens, Gloucester and Newcastle all play on artificial pitches, with the state of the Sarries surface coming under scrutiny this season.
Rees-Zammit posted the photo with the caption: "Can we please stop playing on these Astroturf pitches!! Someone do something about it!!"
Meanwhile, it emerged over the weekend that Bristol director of rugby Pat Lam did not select three of his key players because of the state of the pitch in north London.
Pedro Rubiolo, AJ MacGinty and Steven Luatua were rested for the trip to north London.
"They came off big injuries last season so it wasn't worth putting them on that pitch," Lam explained.
"If we were playing the game at home or if it was a semi-final, they would have played."
Extracted and lightly reformatted for readability. · Source: pt