Gwent Dragons 2015/16 thread

by dragon4life Tue 21 Oct 2014, 4:17 pm

3 in Wales squad that would have been 4 if tyler was fit

by The Saint Tue 21 Oct 2014, 4:56 pm

Doubt it, but 4 if back-row players were selected on merit, or maybe 5 (Evans and Cudd).

by Guest Tue 21 Oct 2014, 6:28 pm

Tyler would've been in. Gatland said. Prydie is probably lucky, but the Dragons centre crisis has undoubtedly helped him. Plus he is another goal kicking option, so that helps. Cudd is unlucky, but Gatland will never pick him when we are playing four fairly physical teams.

by The Saint Tue 21 Oct 2014, 6:33 pm

Maybe he'd get in if Tips was injured.

by Guest Tue 21 Oct 2014, 6:37 pm

Gatland has pretty much said Turnbull is next in line.

by The Saint Tue 21 Oct 2014, 6:58 pm

Christ, what games has he been watching.

by ScarletSpiderman Tue 21 Oct 2014, 7:39 pm

Cudd is a good player, but too 'old' now for Gats to consider

by dragon4life Tue 21 Oct 2014, 8:39 pm

Hes only 26

by bedfordwelsh Tue 21 Oct 2014, 8:58 pm

Don't think I have seen this on here - apologies if been mentioned but are the rumours as to why Tovey wasn't involved last weekend true?

by dragon999 Tue 21 Oct 2014, 9:07 pm

bedfordwelsh wrote:Don't think I have seen this on here - apologies if been mentioned but are the rumours as to why Tovey wasn't involved last weekend true?

Depends which rumour you have heard ?

by bedfordwelsh Tue 21 Oct 2014, 9:17 pm

Washed his passport lol didn't something similar happen when he was at the Blues as well.

by The Saint Wed 22 Oct 2014, 12:14 pm

I washed my digital passport before, it's still good.

by dragon999 Wed 22 Oct 2014, 1:49 pm

bedfordwelsh wrote:Washed his passport lol didn't something similar happen when he was at the Blues as well.

that's the official line - mmm - when he was at the Blues his dog ate it & couldn't travel Shocked

by bedfordwelsh Wed 22 Oct 2014, 1:50 pm

dragon999 wrote:
bedfordwelsh wrote:Washed his passport lol didn't something similar happen when he was at the Blues as well.

that's the official line - mmm - when he was at the Blues his dog ate it & couldn't travel

lol knew I had read something when he was at the Blues

by ScarletSpiderman Wed 22 Oct 2014, 2:47 pm

dragon999 wrote:
bedfordwelsh wrote:Washed his passport lol didn't something similar happen when he was at the Blues as well.

that's the official line - mmm - when he was at the Blues his dog ate it & couldn't travel

by bedfordwelsh Fri 24 Oct 2014, 2:05 pm

Well done to good old BBC Wales again.

I hope any Falcons fans travelling down for the game tonight won't be to disappointed but according to the lunchtime news we are playing Rovigo tonight not he Falcons.

They are not even in our group they are in the Blues and have them at home tonight, would it really hurt for the readers to do a little bit of research beforehand?

by The Saint Fri 24 Oct 2014, 5:36 pm

Seems to be unusual squad rotation from us again but ah well, guess it reflects opposition changes.

by glamorganalun Fri 24 Oct 2014, 8:06 pm

Well done Amos charged down again to throw away a try. Amos in the Wales squad!

by glamorganalun Fri 24 Oct 2014, 8:18 pm

Welll played Dragons good way to end half, must keep it up in the second half.

by The Saint Fri 24 Oct 2014, 8:25 pm

glamorganalun wrote:Well done Amos charged down again to throw away a try. Amos in the Wales squad!

Must be Rhys Priestland criteria like that that gets you selected.

by glamorganalun Fri 24 Oct 2014, 8:43 pm

Amos strikes again another try given away, I hope he does not get anywhere near the Wales team.

by The Saint Fri 24 Oct 2014, 8:44 pm

Sounds like the unthinkable has happened. Wonder how they react to this. how are you watching this game alun?

by glamorganalun Fri 24 Oct 2014, 8:54 pm

Radio Wales.

by glamorganalun Fri 24 Oct 2014, 9:19 pm

Unlucky Dragons mistakes seem to be a big problem again.

by bedfordwelsh Fri 24 Oct 2014, 10:03 pm

What a feckin waste of a great away win last week FFS.

by glamorganalun Fri 24 Oct 2014, 10:35 pm

It does not help when the kicker misses three pens before getting the 4th and two charge downs and losing so many of their own line outs. The Dragons need to pick their best team and take them on in Newcastle.

by dragon999 Fri 24 Oct 2014, 11:56 pm

glamorganalun wrote:Amos strikes again another try given away, I hope he does not get anywhere near the Wales team.

Hallam is a very talented young player who has made 3 errors in recent games involving charge downs - bit harsh of you there GA, every young player makes mistakes, so by your criterion no young Welsh player would "get anywhere near team Wales"
Unfortunately,as you weren't present at the game,you are unable to comment on the many positive things Hallam did during the game - there's the rub eh? just slag him off Rolling Eyes

by Guest Sat 25 Oct 2014, 1:14 am

glamorganalun wrote:Radio Wales.

Clear as day then. Well watched on the radio butt

by Guest Sat 25 Oct 2014, 1:16 am

dragon999 wrote:
glamorganalun wrote:Amos strikes again another try given away, I hope he does not get anywhere near the Wales team.

Hallam is a very talented young player who has made 3 errors in recent games involving charge downs - bit harsh of you there GA, every young player makes mistakes, so by your criterion no young Welsh player would "get anywhere near team Wales"
Unfortunately,as you weren't present at the game,you are unable to comment on the many positive things Hallam did during the game - there's the rub eh? just slag him off

Gave the game away by "watching" on the well known tv station Radio Wales.

by Luckless Pedestrian Sat 25 Oct 2014, 8:37 am

Such a frustrating performance because we did so many things well. I'm confident we can turn Newcastle over in the return match, but not if we carry on conceding such soft tries.

by Guest Sat 25 Oct 2014, 8:04 pm

They were a very very lucky team that they didn't have a man binned for constant offences around the ruck. The referee seemed to have a lot of patience with them. The officials were dreadful last night, though that isn't the reason we lost.

The charge downs are obviously avoidable. Hallam could certainly have side stepped before kicking on one of them. It was also disappointing that we would have won if the missed kicks had gone over. To lose to a fringe/development team when we were supposed to have our tails up from last week is pretty unforgivable.

by The Saint Sat 01 Nov 2014, 8:14 pm

Absolute rubbish, Dragons look like a bunch of amateurs (I guess that's because half the team are to an extent...). I feel sorry for you Rev. I'm switching over to the USA/NZ game.

by ME-109 Sat 01 Nov 2014, 8:18 pm

Not the ref then Saint?

by Artful_Dodger Sat 01 Nov 2014, 8:52 pm

Very impressed with Reidy at 7 for us. The quality of our 12's (McCloskey, Olding and L.Marshall) is ridiculous. We need to send one South so they can all get game time. McCloskey looks a star in the making.

by ME-109 Sat 01 Nov 2014, 8:54 pm

Artful_Dodger wrote:Very impressed with Reidy at 7 for us. The quality of our 12's (McCloskey, Olding and L.Marshall) is ridiculous. We need to send one South so they can all get game time. McCloskey looks a star in the making.

Wouldnt want any of them to be honest...

by Artful_Dodger Sat 01 Nov 2014, 8:57 pm

ME-109 wrote:
Artful_Dodger wrote:Very impressed with Reidy at 7 for us. The quality of our 12's (McCloskey, Olding and L.Marshall) is ridiculous. We need to send one South so they can all get game time. McCloskey looks a star in the making.

Wouldnt want any of them to be honest...

Keep playing Ivan Dineen at 12 then - best of luck Whistle

by ME-109 Sat 01 Nov 2014, 9:04 pm

No..we have a few coming through like Scannell, and with Blyendal as well, Dineen is a decent enough player, just preferable to develop our own with a couple of decent others...

by Guest Sat 01 Nov 2014, 9:14 pm

Is this game a contender for worst game of the season? I know it's wet but the skills levels have been atrocious. Poor advert for the league.

by **profitius** Sat 01 Nov 2014, 9:29 pm

Dragons poor but like Edinburgh they're just missing so many players you can't expect too much at the moment.

Artful_Dodger wrote:
ME-109 wrote:
Artful_Dodger wrote:Very impressed with Reidy at 7 for us. The quality of our 12's (McCloskey, Olding and L.Marshall) is ridiculous. We need to send one South so they can all get game time. McCloskey looks a star in the making.

Wouldnt want any of them to be honest...

Keep playing Ivan Dineen at 12 then - best of luck

Wouldn't mind McCloskey or Olding! Actually (without trying to hijack the thread) Scannell is very similar to Luke Marshall.

by ME-109 Sat 01 Nov 2014, 9:30 pm

profitius wrote:
Artful_Dodger wrote:
ME-109 wrote:
Artful_Dodger wrote:Very impressed with Reidy at 7 for us. The quality of our 12's (McCloskey, Olding and L.Marshall) is ridiculous. We need to send one South so they can all get game time. McCloskey looks a star in the making.

Wouldnt want any of them to be honest...

Keep playing Ivan Dineen at 12 then - best of luck

Wouldn't mind McCloskey or Olding! Actually (without trying to hijack the thread) Scannell is very similar to Luke Marshall.

Nope...better to develop your own..

by dragon4life Sat 01 Nov 2014, 10:28 pm

Once we get a fit centre and few locks back we might win. Not a bad performance consideringlots of under 21 players playing.

by dragon4life Sat 01 Nov 2014, 10:30 pm

Also half back didn't execute the kicking game well so were in wrong areas of pitch. Also at least we have a set piece this year

by The Saint Sat 01 Nov 2014, 10:31 pm

Was that Benjamin at 7? Thought he had a very poor debut.

by dragon4life Sat 01 Nov 2014, 11:27 pm

Yeah it was. Shows how good Cudd is though we missed him tonight. Benjamin not over the ball much don't think he made a turnover but he is not a out and out 7.

by Guest Sun 02 Nov 2014, 12:40 am

dragon4life wrote:Yeah it was. Shows how good Cudd is though we missed him tonight. Benjamin not over the ball much don't think he made a turnover but he is not a out and out 7.

Which is why they should've looked at Scott Matthews first. Terrible weather here, so mistakes inevitable. Thought we fell off a few first up tackles, which wasn't ideal and Brew got caught in no mans land at least once, where he should've just smashed man with ball. But on the whole, we held on well and we didn't deserve the last try against. Think 16-6 would've been fair.

by The Saint Fri 14 Nov 2014, 8:25 pm

I think the game tonight is one where Stankovich could have been rested, the guy needs a rest as I'm sure he has been in every game this season.

by dragon4life Fri 14 Nov 2014, 8:28 pm

Every game apart from the harlequins. Looks like he has been taken off aftee about 30 mins tonight though.

by The Saint Fri 14 Nov 2014, 8:32 pm

The Quins game is probably where he was needed most because if the team wants to progress in this competition that one was a must-win game. Do you know much rest Harris has had? I think the SA club season hasn't long ended... That would be a lot of rugby for him.

by Guest Fri 14 Nov 2014, 8:38 pm

0-41 at the moment to the Dragons away to Ospreys. I still expect us to throw it away mind Sad

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by Guest Fri 14 Nov 2014, 9:16 pm

31-55 now. FFS how can we let them back in so easily.

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