Bristol boss Paul Hull has vowed his team will keep battling despite relegation from the Premiership looking almost a certainty.
Richards disappointed with refereeing
Bristol boss Paul Hull has vowed his team will keep battling despite relegation from the Guinness Premiership looking almost a certainty.
A 17-14 home defeat against Harlequins means Bristol are 12 points adrift at the bottom, with just seven games left.
Those remaining fixtures include away appointments with play-off contenders Bath, London Irish and Leicester.
Hull said: "The last couple of weeks have been difficult circumstances.
"But the players have responded very well. I wanted to up the ante today, and we got ourselves in a position to win the game.
"We are very disappointed, though, we didn't finish things off.
"Worcester and Newcastle have turned the corner in the Premiership, which makes it difficult for us, but we just look at our performance and focus on what we can do.
"We want to finish the season with a couple of wins under our belts. We can still try to grind out some wins."
Yellow cards
Despite watching his side grab victory with a late try, Quins rugby director Dean Richards was left frustrated by the performance of referee Chris White, whose patience with both sides in the scrums ran out 12 minutes from time when he yellow-carded Bristol prop Darren Crompton and his opposite number Ceri Jones.
"I will be looking very closely at the referee's decisions and consistency across the board," said Richards.
"The disappointing thing was the way he didn't take charge of the scrummaging.
"I thought we showed a lot of endeavour in the first half and tried to play, but we didn't quite get the rub of the green. It became a very messy game."
