A Huge Performance For Fans at Rodney Parade

Paul Turner is looking for a huge performance in front of their home crowd tomorrow evening to emulate the success of the Dragons last game at Rodney Parade against Magners League Champions Leinster.

Newport Gwent Dragons Head Coach Paul Turner announces his team to face the Saracens tomorrow (Friday 22 August) at Rodney Parade, kick-off 7.30pm.

Paul is looking for a huge performance in front of their home crowd tomorrow evening to emulate the success of the Dragons last game at Rodney Parade against Magners League Champions Leinster.

Paul said: "It will be good to be back at Rodney Parade. The fans always demand for us to win our matches at home. It's not always possible but the final whistle against Leinster proved to me again that if you can win games the fans will adore you."

He added: “We need to gel together quickly as a team. The match against Bedford looked like our first match of the season and we got caught cold. We need a better performance against Saracens tomorrow for ourselves and our fans.”

New Dragons hooker Tom Willis will captain the squad for the first time on the Men of Gwent’s home turf. The team is as follows:

15 Ashley Smith

14 Gareth Maule

13 Rory Sidey

12 Marc Stcherbina

11 Richard Fussell

10 James Arlidge

9 Wayne Evans

1 Adam Black

2 Tom Willis (c)

3 Rhys Thomas

4 Adam Jones