Dragons RFC

Where at the time we'd a lot of internationals and, you know, every time there was an Irish squad there was the guts of 17 or 18 guys going off for an Irish squad.

Some of us were released back at times, you know, for matches, but we were part of squads, and you know, historically we would have had, if there was international weekends, you know, if we played, uh, the league back then, you know, you would have still a bunch of guys who probably spent half the week up in Ireland camp and then were over in Edinburgh or the Dragons on a Friday night or Saturday night.

And, you know, when younger players came through, there was, there was that bit of experience there.

Look, it's, it's, that's depth in your squad and, and that's, that's, that's a lovely position to be in.

There isn't anymore

... no, there's not.

They're all tough, you know? And, you know, with r- greatest respect to the Dragons and Zebre And probably Bennetts and over the years, you know, you fancied your chances and they were a little bit, you could, you could weaken your team a little bit and give opportunities.

But, you know, you play any of these teams now, you saw the Dragons go to Cork last year and they should have probably won that game against them, or could have.

There's been some positive news other than, uh, Marica Cujo Beti having some visa issues.

Um, I think we could start with the sales, sales for the Dragons game.

It's looking good, isn't it, for the opening URC fixture down at St Helens? We all excited?

Yeah.

You know, to be almost sold out the two stands and, and a good number of, uh, terrace tickets already gone as well-

Yeah

... you know, we certainly should be heading towards the figure, I think we had just over 5,000 when we played the, um, Dragons last year in Bra-, in, uh, [lips smack] Brewery.

So, uh, you know, anything around that figure given how, you know, much we've had to do is great.

People of Treviso [laughs] and the supporters of Benetton, it's easy to get mixed up with all these names.

[laughs] Uh, were out in huge numbers, uh, last week, and they were very disappointed, William Davis, with their performance as they let a good solid potential bonus point win slip away and ended up lucky to draw with the Dragons.

Now they've got their influx of Italian internationals.

Connacht have got their influx of Irish internationals.

For Connacht, it was very, uh, poor by, uh, Benetton.

They were 19-5 up.

They were cruising along against the Dragons, and they just completely switched off, and it cost them quite dearly really.

A draw was, you know, two points instead of five.

But yeah, I mean, I didn't like Benetton last week.

I backed the Dragons.

It was one of my Friday night ones.

And after a quick start where they did 14-0, they actually drew the game 19 all against the Dragons.

But Connacht were also disappointing against the Stormers.

So yeah, you've got two teams that were basically disappointing last week meeting each other.

People come and go.

Let's move on to the next one.

Yeah, so Edinburgh won that one.

The Dragons played Benetton over in Italy.

Oh,

that's a tough one.

So now let's talk about our club rugby action from the weekend.

And how many competitions were we lucky enough to be a part of? All right, the opening game for the URC was a close one, and that was the Dragons taking on Benetton, Intraviso, and Italy.

The Dragons scored a 78th minute try to make this one 19-all.

They went for the conversion and it hit the posts.

It finished 19-all, Benetton and the Dragons.

Stormers had a good first up victory against Connacht.

Away from home winning 29-15.

After one week, Bulls, Sharks, Stormers and Glasgow are your top four.