Dragons team to face Edinburgh
Dragons head coach Bernard Jackman has named his team that will face Edinburgh Rugby at Eugene Cross Park, on Friday night, KO 19:30.
The match will take place at the home of Principality Premiership side Ebbw Vale RFC, as top flight rugby returns to Eugene Cross Park.
There has been four personnel changes and one positional change made to the team that faced Benetton Rugby at Rodney Parade last weekend.
The back three remains unchanged, as Hallam Amos has once again been released been from the Wales squad, but there is one change in the centre partnership as Jack Dixon is joined by versatile back Zane Kirchner. Dorian Jones comes in at fly-half to replace Kirchner and is joined in the halfbacks by Charlie Davies.
The front row sees one change made to it as Leon Brown returns to the starting XV, and there are no changes to the second row. Lewis Evans is named skipper for this match as James Benjamin replaces Harri Keddie and Aaron Wainwright makes up the back row.
The replacements bench sees the inclusion of Ollie Griffiths who is set to made his first appearance since his injury.
Commenting on the match ahead, Bernard Jackman said: “Any frustrations we’ve had this season with injury have been more than compensated by seeing the development of some of our youngsters. We’ve given ten debuts to teenagers this season, with Rio Dyer the latest to make his Pro14 debut last weekend. He’s an 18-year old from Newport who we feel has a bright future so when you are working with enthusiasm and talent like he has you need a little bit of patience but you can see the reward at the end of it.
“This is a big development year for the Dragons we’re putting in place a culture and a style of play and we’re making some changes in terms of recruitment and developing our own youngsters. Even though the results aren’t as good as like, certainly the performances are getting better and the results will come and every minute we play together this year is only going to help us next year.”
He continued: “Dorian has been back with Ebbw Vale trying to get some match fitness over the last couple of weeks. He’s actually on a run of forty kicks without missing so hopefully that continues this weekend.
“He has good experience so it’s a great opportunity for Dorian to put his stamp on the team and finish the season in pole position.”
Dragons team to face Edinburgh Rugby
15 Hallam Amos, 14 Rio Dyer, 13 Zane Kirchner, 12 Jack Dixon, 11 Jared Rosser, 10 Dorian Jones, 9 Charlie Davies; 1 Sam Hobbs, 2 Liam Belcher, 3 Leon Brown, 4 Joe Davies, 5 Rynard Landman, 6 Aaron Wainwright, 7 James Benjamin, 8 Lewis Evans ©.
Replacements; Ellis Shipp, Gerard Ellis, Lloyd Fairbrother, Harri Keddie, Ollie Griffiths, Sarel Pretorius, Connor Edwards, Jarryd Sage.
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