Hooker Brodie Coghlan will start the New Year’s Day derby with Scarlets in the BKT United Rugby Championship after a late change to the starting line-up for Dragons.
Elliot Dee is ruled out of the game at Parc y Scarlets through injury and his place is now taken by Coghlan. James Benjamin comes onto the replacements bench.
Dragons RFC: Cai Evans, Rio Dyer, Jared Rosser, Aneurin Owen, Huw Anderson, Angus O’Brien (c), Rhodri Williams; Rodrigo Martinez, Brodie Coghlan, Dmitri Arhip, Joe Davies, Ryan Woodman, Shane Lewis-Hughes, Taine Basham, Aaron Wainwright
Replacements: James Benjamin, Dylan Kelleher-Griffiths, Chris Coleman, Nick Thomas, Dan Lydiate, Che Hope, Will Reed, Harry Wilson