Gregor Townsend keen to end Glasgow jinx and douse Dragons’ fire

Guinness PRO12
It is one of the stranger facts of the Guinness PRO12, that however good Glasgow Warriors are and however badly the Newport Gwent Dragons are struggling, it is often the Scottish side who find things tough when the two teams meet.

Take away the season before last, when Glasgow won both matches handsomely, including the record-breaking 60-3 win in Newport, and the history of clashes between the two clubs is of tight, brutal encounters that could have gone either way, with the Dragons scoring some notable wins.

It should be no surprise, then, that although Glasgow lost only fo…