Fitzgerald with a high ball up

Both sides are on the field and we are just about ready for kick off

A very good evening from Rodney Parade, I am Usie and I have the pleasure of bringing you this game tonight

Dean Ryan’s side returned from Zebre with five points in the bag, an experience that they had not enjoyed for the four-and-a-half years prior, but the oft-overlooked Irish province will pose an altogether different threat than the Italians.

Winners of the competition back in 2016, the men in green responded to defeat at Scarlets in Round 1 with an emphatic triumph over Benetton last time out, and Andy Friend has opted for consistency when it comes to line-ups.

He makes only one change from the XV that started in Treviso, with Australian winger John Porch handed his first Guinness PRO14 start as he comes in for Stephen Fitzgerald.

For the Dragons, it is a similar story, with Ryan opting to make only three alterations to last weekend’s team, with Ashton Hewitt set to make his first Guinness PRO14 appearance at Rodney Parade since March 2018 after recovering from a shoulder injury.