Dragons fire up at Rodney Parade
Sat, 11 Oct 2008 17:54
Newport Gwent Dragons got their Heineken Cup off to a flyer with a 32-22 win over Scottish rivals Glasgow Warriors at Rodney Parade on Saturday.
The visitors opened the scoreboard with wing Lome Fa'atau scoring the first try, and following a Colin Gregor conversion and subsequent penalty, the Dragons found themselves with a 0-10 deficit early in the match.
The hosts fought back soon after however with back-to-back penalties from Japan flyhalf and New Zealand Maori James Arlidge. Wing Gareth Wyatt scored the Dragons first try soon after, with an Arlidge conversion giving the hosts a well-earned 14-10 lead at the interval.
Arlidge proved handy with the boot again in the second half, adding two drop-goals and another penalty, while Wales veteran and Dragons player-coach Colin Charvis ran in a legendary try of his own.
Wyatt dived over for his second, while the Warriors' second-half efforts saw centre Max Evans and second row forward Alistair Kellock score a try apiece.
Scorers:
For Dragons:
Tries: Wyatt 2, Charvis
Pens: Arlidge 3
Con: Arlidge
Dgs: Arlidge 2
For Glasgow:
Tries: Faatau, Evans, Kellock
Cons: Gregor 2
Pen: Gregor
Teams:
Dragons: 15 Phil Dollman, 14 Gareth Wyatt, 13 Rory Sidey, 12 Marc Stcherbina, 11 Richard Fussell, 10 James Arlidge, 9 Wayne Evans, 8 Lewis Evans, 7 Colin Charvis, 6 Joe Bearman, 5 Luke Charteris, 4 Adam Jones, 3 Rhys Thomas, 2 Tom Willis (captain), 1 Adam Black.
Replacements: 16 Steve Jones, 17 Aaron Coundley, 18 Grant Webb, 19 Andrew Hall, 20 Rob Lewis, 21 Shaun Connor, 22 Ashley Smith.
Glasgow: 15
Bernardo Stortoni, 14 Lome Fa'atau, 13 Max Evans, 12 Graeme Morrison, 11 Hefin O'Hare, 10 Colin Gregor, 9 Mark McMillan, 8 Johnnie Beattie, 7 John Barclay, 6 Kelly Brown, 5 Alastair Kellock (captain), 4 Opeta Palepoi, 3 Moray Low, 2 Dougie Hall, 1 Justin Va'a.
Replacements: 16 Ed Kalman, 17 Kevin Tkachuk, 18 Tim Barker, 19 Stevie Swindall, 20 Andrew Henderson, 21 Ruaridh Jackson, 22 Richie Vernon.
Referee: Romain Poite (France)
Touch judges: Cédric Marchat (France), Eric Soulan (France)
