Wainwright has been a leading figure for Dragons since making his debut in 2017, which was followed by a rapid rise to the international stage.<\/p>\n
The back-row forward has won 62 caps, featured in all five matches of the 2019 Grand Slam and has played at two World Cups.<\/p>\n
“He is going to be a massive loss,” said Tiatia. “I love Waino \u2013 he is a unique man and a heck of a player who brings confidence to the group.<\/p>\n
“He trains hard, does all of the one per centers really well and is a really good pro; people can influence others and he is definitely a person we will miss.<\/p>\n
“We know that he will give his best until the season is finished and that is exciting because there are a lot of things that we can do as a group together and objectives that we want to achieve, with Waino as part of that.”<\/p>\n
Tiatia is working with Dragons head of recruitment Jonathan Westwood to fill the void, with Wainwright’s decision leaving plenty of room in the budget.<\/p>\n
The Rodney Parade club, who signed a new Professional Rugby Agreement with the Welsh Rugby Union in May, will have an increased playing budget of approximately \u00a36m next season.<\/p>\n
“We are looking at the moment at opportunities for someone to come in and complement what we are doing here and really impose themselves,” said Tiatia.<\/p>\n
“We have got a bit of work to do to find the right person, or persons. Retention is really important and so is our recruitment.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Wainwright has been a leading figure for Dragons since making his debut in 2017, which was followed by…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":360621,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[5903,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-362466","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-rugby","8":"tag-rugby","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362466","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=362466"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362466\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/360621"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=362466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=362466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=362466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}