{"id":5889,"date":"2026-01-14T19:56:52","date_gmt":"2026-01-14T19:56:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/?p=5889"},"modified":"2026-01-14T19:56:52","modified_gmt":"2026-01-14T19:56:52","slug":"dragons-head-coach-filo-tiatia-defends-raft-of-benetton-changes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/?p=5889","title":{"rendered":"Dragons head coach Filo Tiatia defends raft of Benetton changes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Dragons faced Benetton game after three wins from four games, although all the victories were in Newport.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It is now a win-or-bust game against Newcastle and Tiatia hopes to welcome back talisman Wainwright, Keddie, Ben Carter, Angus O&#8217;Brien, Che Hope and Fine Inisi.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Newcastle, in contrast, are targeting home advantage in the next round having won all three pool games.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It&#8217;ll be a tough game. We&#8217;re under no illusion of just where they&#8217;re at. Newcastle are a good side,&#8221; said Tiatia.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;When we&#8217;re at home we need to front up for the fans, and all the players wearing the jersey all know the expectations.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Victory would take Dragons temporarily above both Perpignan and Lions, who meet in France on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Only a draw at Stade Aime Giral would put the Dragons at risk of elimination on points difference if they beat Newcastle.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dragons faced Benetton game after three wins from four games, although all the victories were in Newport. It is now a win-or-bust game against Newcastle and Tiatia hopes to welcome back talisman Wainwright, Keddie, Ben Carter, Angus O&#8217;Brien, Che Hope and Fine Inisi. Newcastle, in contrast, are targeting home advantage in the next round having<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5890,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5889","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-rugby"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5889","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5889"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5889\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5890"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}