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New Dragons recruit: 'The potential here is phenomenal'

Saracens' Tom Griffiths is trading London for Newport with his switch to Dragons (Photo by David Rogers/Getty Images)

Young centre Tom Griffiths is to join Dragons from English and European champions Saracens. Griffiths has agreed a deal to make the move to Rodney Parade and will link up with his new team-mates at Ystrad Mynach next Monday.

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The hard-running midfielder – who stands at 6ft 2ins and weighs 102kg – joined the Saracens academy in 2015 before stepping up to the senior squad in 2017.

The 23-year-old made his debut in the English Premiership last season and helped Saracens Storm win the Premiership Rugby Shield.

“It’s an exciting time for me to join the Dragons,” said Griffiths. “I’ve spoken with Dean Ryan and the things he has said are really positive. I feel the potential here is phenomenal so hopefully good things are to come.

“There are some fantastic players here too so I’m looking forward to developing my game and taking the chance I have been given.”

Welsh-qualified Griffiths – who has also spent time on loan at Bedford Blues and London Scottish – joins fellow new recruits Sam Davies and Jack Cosgrove at the region.

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Griffiths, who debuted in the Premiership off the bench in May against Worcester and featured in the Premiership Cup final versus Northampton, also made five appearances for London Scottish in the Championship last term. Prior to that, he appeared 17 times in the Championship for Bedford across two seasons. 

Director of rugby Ryan said: “Tom is a talented young centre who has spent the last four seasons working on his game in the Saracens set-up and also getting valuable game time on loan at London Scottish and Bedford Blues.

“He is keen to now really prove himself, take on a new challenge, and excited by the opportunity at Dragons. We’re excited to see how Tom develops in our environment and look forward to him linking up with the squad.”

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RedWarriors 8 minutes ago
Why ‘the curse of the Bambino’ is still stronger than ever at Leinster

Another reason for Jordie Barrett. He has not been involved in any of those losses.

There is no scarring. He is more likely to keep his thinking cap on and not slide down the well worn mud slide to panic that Henshaw was muddied the back of his shirt/shorts with several times in recent years. NH were not going to win that match in the second half. They needed a decent lead from teh 1st half to try and hold.


Judging from a few years of poor end game match management my hunch is that sorting it out has fallen between the stools of Cullen-Nienaber and previously Cullen-Lancaster. That’s a finger pointing right at Cullen as overall manager.

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RedWarriors 14 minutes ago
Why ‘the curse of the Bambino’ is still stronger than ever at Leinster

The lack of big (challenging) matches could also have been mitigated by Leinster by doing a stress test on potential weaknesses. NH obviously did such a test and emerged with a bit of an array of attacking opportunities and as NB has said ways to diminish the rush D.

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RedWarriors 18 minutes ago
Why ‘the curse of the Bambino’ is still stronger than ever at Leinster

Agree. Sam would be better getting a few learning matches under his belt with some pressure off. (Apart from any Munster supporter Crowley-ite pressure)

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lh 1 hour ago
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Steven Donald very much in the news these days! Why is this? and was he even that great a rugby player? Yes, he was part of a world cup winning team, but also by luck if I can call it that. Apologies to the injured fly halves!

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BP 1 hour ago
Why ‘the curse of the Bambino’ is still stronger than ever at Leinster

Whatever blows your skirt up! So how many big tournament has Leinster/ Ireland won in the last 6/7 year? Even with them being the so called favourites? You can’t argue the fact that Irish rugby has an issue when it comes to closing out big games……. as for my team/country we have won more WC’s than Ireland made it past a QF…….Stop making excuses and just except that Irish rugby teams choke and wear that tag proudly……you have earned it!! Don’t spend money on a ticket to OZ…. it will be a waste AGAIN :)

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Ed the Duck 1 hour ago
Why ‘the curse of the Bambino’ is still stronger than ever at Leinster

…so you’ve finally given up farting against thunder in the face of overwhelming evidence on how cocksure Leinster fell flat on their arses then???

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Ed the Duck 1 hour ago
Why ‘the curse of the Bambino’ is still stronger than ever at Leinster

Is that a promise RW? There’s quite a few happy to form a guard of (dis)honour on your way out…😉😂

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RedWarriors 1 hour ago
Why ‘the curse of the Bambino’ is still stronger than ever at Leinster

Ive blocked you and I am unblocking you to ask you respectfully to stop replying to my comments and stalking my posts. The site does not allow my posts to be invisible. I don’t wish to engage with you. Stop engaging with me.

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RedWarriors 1 hour ago
Why ‘the curse of the Bambino’ is still stronger than ever at Leinster

I’ve blocked Ed, as he has innundated my comments with baseless claims of arrogance against Leinster, Ireland and Irish people based on his result. He is still commenting on my comments. Could you (respectfully) ask him to stop doing that. I had hoped blocking him would stop him seeing my post but this website does not facilitate that.

I appreciate he does often stay on topic. But for me its a barrage of insults.

I am happy to leave the site if he persists.

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RedWarriors 1 hour ago
Why ‘the curse of the Bambino’ is still stronger than ever at Leinster

They earned those home ties.

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Ed the Duck 1 hour ago
Why ‘the curse of the Bambino’ is still stronger than ever at Leinster

Tom Jordan may well be that player, and covers centre too.

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RedWarriors 1 hour ago
Why ‘the curse of the Bambino’ is still stronger than ever at Leinster

The farcical draw for RWC 2023 has been apologized for and acknowledged by World Rugby. This doesn’t change the result but does show that it was not a meritocracy. A team not good enough to win their pool ended up winning the tournament.

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Ed the Duck 1 hour ago
Why ‘the curse of the Bambino’ is still stronger than ever at Leinster

So are we talking incompetence, negligence or arrogance on why it wasn’t addressed before now…???

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RedWarriors 1 hour ago
Why ‘the curse of the Bambino’ is still stronger than ever at Leinster

I’ve blocked that poster so can’t see his comment. Can you discuss rugby instead of piling on the insults. Have no issue blocking you either.

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Ed the Duck 1 hour ago
Why ‘the curse of the Bambino’ is still stronger than ever at Leinster

Yes, it must be so so very difficult for poor old Leinster having to make do with their raw and undercooked squad…


Cap counts: start+bench international(B&I lions)

Leinster squad 717(13)+309(3) = 1028(16)

Saints squad 76+7 = 83

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Mzilikazi 1 hour ago
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Thanks for a very interesting article ,Nick. be back in the morning to comment a bit more.

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RedWarriors 1 hour ago
Why ‘the curse of the Bambino’ is still stronger than ever at Leinster

How you fare in tight EPCR matches may come down to what experience you have in tight matches. Leinster have a lot less competitive coming from the URC as a top14 team or indeed a Premiership team. They should be better at match management, but many of the weaknesses exploited by Northampton would surely have been shored up with more competitive matches in the lead up.


I disagree Ireland had as good a chance of any of winning the RWC 2023. Ireland were the only team in the top 4 that had to play a big team the week before the QF (Scotland were then ranked #5). As well as injuring both wingers this took a big dint out of potential preparation for the QF.

Obviously the ludicrous draw affected Ireland also (as well as France and Scotland).

I am sure Ireland would not have chosen NZ as the opposition to break our QF hoodooo. NZ were a team full of players with RWC semi final and winners medals. Ireland (like France) had a sum total of 0 knock out win caps on the team.

It was well remarked during the knock outs that if you had to play France the time to play them was the QF before they were up and running. Same applied to Ireland. Ireland get the QF hoodoo off their backs with a match against (Arg/Wal/Eng/Fiji) they become a much harder proposition for NZ in a semi particularly as the playing fieled would be level with NZ having to focus on a big match the week before as Ireland had to.

I can’t go on about how incompetent the RWC draw and scheduling has been basically since the inception of the tournament. Lets have a fair draw and see how the teams fare.

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