Ryan insists Thomond Park the ‘acid test’ for new Dragons

Dragons new head coach Dean Ryan has described this afternoon’s Guinness PRO14 visit to Thomond Park as “a massive challenge”. His forwards coach, Ceri Jones, went a stage further in calling it “the acid test”.

Nevertheless, both men have also expressed their belief that a new era is about to be born at the rugby hotbed that is Newport and that what would be only their second ever win at the Limerick venue is well within their reach.