Newport Gwent Dragons (13) 25
Newcastle Falcons (7)14

A blend of young and experienced Dragons won their third game in a row at Rodney Parade this evening. The Dragons gave debuts to some of their up and coming players. The game started positively for Newcastle and their much bigger forwards looked like they were going to cause problems for the young Dragons. After 6 minutes the Dragons opened their account with a penalty from Jason Tovey against the run of play. For the next ten minutes Newcastle piled the pressure on the Dragons, but a strong defence deservedly kept Newcastle out. In the 21st minute Jason Tovey broke away after a mistake by Newcastle. Ringer, Wyatt, Lott and Tovey handled then chipped the ball over the Newcastle defence, who chased the kick but Danny Williams failed to clear, Marc Stcherbina gathered and deservedly dropped over the line for a try, converted by Tovey. Shortly after Jamie Ringer was sin-binned for aggressively clearing out a ruck with his shoulder, as half time approached. Newcastle were awarded a penalty try when the referee penalised the Dragons for collapsing the scrum on the line, converted by Rory Clegg in the 41st minute. After four minutes of injury time Jason Tovey stepped up to the mark to kick another penalty, with the half-time score line 13-7 to the Dragons.
The second half began with the Dragons bringing on replacements Alex Murphy and Tom Isaacs, within five minutes Newcastle went ahead after wing Ollie Phillips out paced Tal Selley and kicked ahead to beat Dolman to the touch-down, converted by Clegg. At this point the Dragons needed to steady the ship. Connor came on to replace Gomer-Davies, Tovey moved to fullback and Dollman to centre. On 53 minutes a great roar from the crowd greeted Colin Charvis as he took the field to replace Dan Lydiate. With immediate effect Charvis’ knowledge and experience was just what the Dragons needed, as he stole the ball down the blind-side and released the impressive Tom Isaacs into space for the young scrum-half to scramble over for a try in the 62nd minute, with Jason Tovey converting. With under 10 minutes remaining the Dragons made sure of their victory when from broken play Adam Jones some how managed to get the ball away to Jason Tovey near the touchline for the young outside half to sprint clear and in for the Dragons 3rd try.

Dragons:
Tries: Marc Stcherbina (21), Tom Isaacs (62), Jason Tovey (73).
Conversions: Jason Tovey (22, 63)
Penalties: Jason Tovey (6, 44 injury time)
Yellow cards: Jamie Ringer (30)

Newcastle:
Tries: Penalty try (40), Ollie Phillips (44)
Conversions: Rory Clegg (41, 45)

Att: 4,750
Ref: Rob Debney (Leicestershire).