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Saturday, November 22, 2008, 08:00
Bristol were crushed 39-10 by five-try Gloucester in their derby at Kingsholm, while Newcastle went down 26-11 at Worcester.
Bristol remain three points behind the Falcons – and head coach Hill expects the scrap for survival to be fought between the two clubs.
"I think we'll win enough games at home to stay up," said Hill.
"We've got a little mini-league going with Newcastle at the moment.
"I'm keeping track of their results and our results – and I think it will be between ourselves and Newcastle at the end. It could even come down to the last few games."
Peter Buxton crossed twice for Gloucester, while Olly Morgan, Alex Brown and Ryan Lamb also went over as they moved up to second in the table.
And Hill admitted his side had been well beaten by a side that will challenge for the title and must now move on quickly. They host London Irish at the Memorial Stadium a week tomorrow.
"Gloucester were very good, although I think we helped them to a certain extent by giving silly penalties away and missing some basic tackles in the first half," said Hill.
"But they punished us – they were very clinical and every time they got within striking distance they scored.
"There aren't too many positives to take out of that – we've just got to draw a line underneath it and move on.
"There's no point getting too despondent about it – we got beaten, we didn't play well and Gloucester were very good."
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