BRISTOL lost their second match of the new Guinness Premiership season when failing to take advantage of Quins winger Ugo Monye’s time in the sin bin.

They trailed 12-6 in the opening stages of the second half but did not add a single point to their first-half total during this crucial period.

Quins, who squandered 14 points from two conversions and four penalties that went wide, added three second-half tries for a deserved victory.

Bristol did score a try in the seventh minute of injury-time with wing David Lemi crossing but it was too little too late.

Centre Neil Brew, who had not played in any of the pre-season matches last month because of a hamstring problem, and lock Marianno Sambucetti made their first starts for Bristol.

Quins were without New Zealand international fly-half and former Bristol target Nick Evans. Fiji international Waisea Luveniyali made his full debut in the no 10 shirt.

Bristol full-back Luke Arscott was at fault for both of Quins' opening tries after failing to deal with chips ahead from the home team.

He had time to clear but, on both occasions, he allowed himself to be tackled and conceded possession before centre Jordan Turner-Hall and full-back Mike Brown crashed over for tries on 11 and 23 minutes.

Luveniyali, who had earlier missed three other kicks at goal, was successful with the conversion to Brown's try to make it 12-0.

Bristol were fortunate the Fijian was having an off-day with the boot. He missed another penalty on 32 minutes – and Quins should have been a further 11 points in front.

Fly-half Adrian Jarvis, making his first appearance back at the Stoop since moving to Bristol in the summer, replied with two penalties.

Quins also had wing Ugo Monye sent to the sin bin for killing the ball close to his own line after Brew had been brought down five metres short.

Bristol had not taken advantage of their numerical ascendancy when Monye returned from the sin bin on 53 minutes.

Jarvis went for goal when he should have kicked the ball into the corner on 41 minutes, wing David Lemi later fumbled another attack and then scrum-half Haydn Thomas was penalised for feeding at the scrum when in a good position.

Luveniyali let Bristol off the hook again on 56 minutes with another missed penalty, this time firing wide from 35 metres out and just left of the up-rights. 

Bristol were reduced to 14 men on 63 minutes when lock Robert Sidoli was shown the yellow card for killing the ball.

And Quins struck straight away, with England scrum-half Danny Care wriggling through the Bristol tacklers to score after off-the-top ball from No 8 Nick Easter at a five metre line-out. Luveniyali landed the conversion for a 19-6 lead.