Here’s everything you need to know ahead of Saturday's Guinness PRO14 clash between Dragons and Ulster...
And here is how the hosts will line out…
MATCH DETAILS
- Competition: Guinness PRO14 Round 15
- Venue: Principality Stadium
- Date: Saturday 13 March
- Kick-off: 7.35 pm
- Match Officials: Referee: Adam Jones (WRU) Assistant Referees: Ben Whitehouse, Dan Jones (both WRU) TMO: Ian Davies (WRU)
- Live TV: Premier Sports, eir Sports
TEAM ANNOUNCEMENT
The starting back line sees two positional switches and four changes from the side that faced Leinster last weekend. Jacob Stockdale will take up the full-back position and will be joined on the wings by Rob Lyttle and Craig Gilroy.
And here is how the hosts will line out…
🐉 TEAM | It's time! Here are your @dragonsrugby to face @UlsterRugby in the @PRO14Official at @principalitysta 👊
🧑✈️ @RhodriWillss09 returns as captain 🙌 💪 @griffiths12895 is 🔙 to start 🔥 @Riodyer11 named out wide 👍#Rise #GuinnessPRO14 pic.twitter.com/CcTnQksnwG — Dragons (@dragonsrugby) March 12, 2021
KEY STATS
- Overall Guinness PRO14 head to head record: Played 33, Dragons won 10, Ulster won 21 with 2 games drawn.
- Dragons 31-20 victory at home to Ospreys on Saturday ended a six-game losing run in the Guinness PRO14.
- The Welshmen have not beaten an Irish province since a home win against Connacht in September 2017.
- Ulster's only defeat in the last eight away game in the PRO14 was on a trip to Leinster on 8 January.
- Ulster have lost only once to a Welsh region since November 2018, on a visit to Ospreys in February 2020,
- Ulster are unbeaten in the last nine fixtures with Dragons since Dragons victory at Rodney Parade in March 2015, a sequence which includes a 32-all draw at the same venue in December 2017.
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