Gavin Henson’s deep role fails to lift Newport Gwent Dragons against Cardiff

• Newport Gwent Dragons 17-22 Cardiff Blues• Hosts rally from 22-3 down but visitors hold on for derby victoryThe Dragons are starting to breathe fire rather than inhale it, but they are not yet waterproof. Like the capacity crowd, their flame was dowsed by rain and opponents who played the conditions more cleverly, but a region that was a vote away from extinction seven months ago has success rather than survival as its driver.Had members of the Newport Rugby Club, the then owners of Rodney Parade, voted in the summer against a proposal to sell the ground to the Welsh Rugby Union, the Dragons…