It was a decision that surprised pundits, enraged Dragons supporters and frustrated Tiatia, whose side have not won since the first game of last season.<\/p>\n
“I thought it was a yellow card, a second one (for Penny) and it should have been red,” Tiatia said. <\/p>\n
“I saw it differently to Morne, who I thought had a good game. There were seven points difference at the time and then the big fella (Snyman) took his chance down the right and it became 14.<\/p>\n
“I was disappointed for the players because Leinster had dominance at scrum, but they fought hard to get back into the game and held them up numerous times over the line.<\/p>\n
“I felt for them. We held Leinster at bay, fought hard to stay in it and we had opportunities to score points that didn’t quite happen.”<\/p>\n
Dragons drew with Sharks and Ospreys in Newport in the first block of the URC and their resilience earned a chance to push for a share of the spoils with the champions, who have now won the last 15 meetings between the sides.<\/p>\n
“I said in the huddle that I was proud of the performance because we had a lot of young guys that came on and got exposure at this level,” said Tiatia, who was without five Wales internationals because of Saturday’s Test with South Africa.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It was a decision that surprised pundits, enraged Dragons supporters and frustrated Tiatia, whose side have not won…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":316245,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[567],"tags":[64,63,760,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-316244","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-rugby","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-rugby","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316244","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=316244"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316244\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/316245"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=316244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=316244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=316244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}