He has made four personnel changes to the starting XV and one positional change to the back row for the Men of Gwent.
Fullback Carl Meyer returns to the back three and joins wings Ashton Hewitt and Jared Rosser, whilst the centre partnership remains unchanged with Adam Warren and Jack Dixon retaining their positions. Gavin Henson returns to the half-backs and joins scrum-half Sarel Pretorius.
Prop Sam Hobbs returns to the front row alongside tighthead prop Lloyd Fairbrother and Welsh International hooker Elliot Dee, whilst there are no changes in the second row as Rynard Landman and skipper Cory Hill retain their positions. The back sees James Sheekey get an opportunity alongside Aaron Wainwright who moves to number 7 and Robson Blake at number 8.
Looking forward to Saturday’s match, Dragons defence coach Hendre Marnitz commented; “If we make sure we tick the boxes we need to and if by hook or by crook the other results go our way then excellent, but we are purely focused on our task against Bordeaux.
“We know that we should and could have won last weekend but for a couple of silly things, so our focus is purely on us.
“We have got one task and that’s beating Bordeaux, the rest is out of our control. You can tire yourself out looking for ifs, buts and whys so for us it’s about putting in a good performance.
“We are looking purely at ourselves and we want to fix one or two things that we did wrong in Bordeaux and put in a good performance for our fans and all the
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Dragons team to face Bordeaux-Begles
15 Carl Meyer, 14 Ashton Hewitt, 13 Adam Warren, 12 Jack Dixon, 11 Jared Rosser, 10 Gavin Henson, 9 Sarel Pretorius; 1 Sam Hobbs, 2 Elliot Dee, 3 Lloyd Fairbrother, 4 Rynard Landman, 5 Cory Hill ©, 6 James Sheekey, 7 Aaron Wainwright, 8 Robson Blake.
Replacements; Liam Belcher, Thomas Davies, Gerard Ellis, Joe Davies, James Benjamin, Dan Babos, Dorian Jones, Pat Howard.
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