Dragons RFC have named the club's Under-18s squad for the beginning of the Under-18s Regional Age-Grade (RAG) Championship this weekend.
A total 44 players have been named in the squad for the summer block of games against Cardiff, Ospreys, RGC and Scarlets.
Seventeen clubs are represented within the squad which opens it’s campaign at home to Cardiff this Sunday (August 16) at 2:30pm.
“It’s been a really good block of preparation, good playing opportunity for the boys at Saracens and the younger group at the Malvern Festival and against Scarlets,” said Academy Coach Adam Thomas.
“It’s been really positive and something we haven’t done before and it allowed us to get more eyes on for longer.
“There are a lot of new faces and it’s quite a young squad but they’ll now have two years to be in the pathway at under 18s to grow.”
Dragons Under-18s start their campaign at the Centre of Sporting Excellence Ystrad Mynach against Cardiff RFC on Sunday.
“There’s a bit of rivalry in the first game which will be interesting,” said Thomas.
“We had the same fixture first up at the Arms Park last year and had a bit of a rude awakening in the first half then almost came back to win.
“Everyone’s looking forward after a good pre-season and it’s important in this summer block that we give boys some game time and the year ones some exposure early doors so we learn a bit more about them before block two.”
Dragons Under-18s Squad - Backs: Elis Anderson (Penallta RFC), Rhys Anthony (Pontyclun RFC), George Bradbury (Whitehead RFC), Dylan Cole (Caerphilly RFC), Alfie Davies (Machen RFC), Rhys Dyer (Caerleon RFC), Tobias Edwards (Pontypool Utd), Joshua Johnson (Risca RFC), Sam Kings (Pontypool), Liam Lawlor (Bedwas RFC), Ottis Mighten (Caerleon), Louis Morgan (Caerphilly), Zach Morgan (Talywain RFC), Olly Morris (Newbridge RFC), Otis Smith (Chepstow RFC), Isaac Williams (Whitehead), Jack Williams (Abergavenny RFC), Rhys Wood (Bargoed RFC) Elliot Young (Whitehead)
Forwards: Olly Beynon (Haberdashers’ Monmouth), Yi Sheng Chi (Risca), Gethin Clarke (Newport High School Old Boys), Jayden Coxe (Penallta), Rudi Creel (Pontypool), Oscar Friend (Whitehead), Danny Jones (Pontypool), Teifi Jones (Penallta), Jake Leighton (Newbridge), Logan Leonard (Pontypool), Cam Lewis (Senghenydd RFC), Zac Little (Whitehead), Rafe Llewelyn (Monmouth RFC), Ollie Mitchell (Pontypool), Theo Patterson-Phillips (Caerphilly), Harry Price (Bedwas), Gabe Pugh (Bargoed), Troy Raymond (Caerleon), Elis Rice (Bedwas), Jimmy Sargent (Pontypool), Morgan Suller (Whitehead), Gethin Tudball (Bedwas), Tom Vizard (Monmouth), Bobby-Joe Williams (Whitehead), Iwan Williams (Machen)
