The house altering room at Rodney Parade has not been a contented place fairly often this 12 months.
Relegation-threatened Newport County are but to win on house soil in 2025-26, though they did win a penalty shootout towards Gillingham within the FA Cup.
The Exiles misplaced 2-0 at house to Fleetwood on Saturday and so they have claimed simply two factors from a potential 30 at Rodney Parade, placing their Soccer League standing in critical jeopardy.
Dragons blew possibilities for victory in attracts with each Sharks and Ospreys within the first block of the URC.
The one success earlier than the Lyon fixture was for Newport RFC once they beat Cardiff in a fixture that was switched from their Spytty Park base to their historic house.
“We now have come so shut on so many events at Rodney Parade and to recover from the road is very large for the group,” added O’Brien.
“We now have to construct after grinding it out and discovering a manner. The followers deserve it greater than anyone and I’m simply delighted we gave them one thing to have fun.
“We have had two attracts that would or ought to have been wins and it has been powerful to take, but it surely’s necessary to now construct on this.”
Sunday’s comeback was a primary Rodney Parade success for boss Tiatia since he was promoted from defence coach to interchange Dai Flanagan.
“We did not play that effectively however I’m simply actually blissful the gamers discovered a solution to win,” stated the previous All Blacks back-row ahead.
“They have the win that they’ve been looking for and we have now to maintain constructing. We’re in our third recreation in a ten-week block, and we have nonetheless acquired seven video games to go.
“Accidents are fairly rife in the intervening time with all of the squads, so we have now acquired to get able to go once more.
“The group are blissful and now they will practice with a little bit of freedom and hold constructing on what we have now began.”
Dragons will hope that an outdated cricket saying is acceptable – one brings two.
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