{"id":376633,"date":"2026-01-18T09:15:14","date_gmt":"2026-01-18T09:15:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/376633\/"},"modified":"2026-01-18T09:15:14","modified_gmt":"2026-01-18T09:15:14","slug":"european-challenge-cup-dragons-35-12-newcastle-european-reaction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/376633\/","title":{"rendered":"European Challenge Cup: Dragons 35-12 Newcastle European &#8211; reaction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Goodnight from Rodney Paradepublished at 22:08 GMT 16 January<\/p>\n<p>22:08 GMT 16 January<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-16yshci-Paragraph e14e9ror4\">FT: Dragons 35-12 Newcastle<\/p>\n<p>      <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Dragons celebrate\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/c26fee76-5e4b-4301-80ae-280882c37b55.jpg.webp.webp\"  width=\"3300\" height=\"1856\" class=\"ssrcss-11yxrdo-Image edrdn950\"\/>Image source, Huw Evans Picture Agency<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Newcastle Red Bulls might have arrived in Newport having already qualified for the last-16, but it&#8217;s a fair bet that few fans on either side saw that result coming.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">If the festive wins over Lyon, Connacht, and Scarlets signified welcome relief, then tonight was a statement that this current Dragons revival is anything but a fleeting one.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Providing there&#8217;s no cruel turn of events in South Africa tomorrow,  Filo Tiatia&#8217;s side will be in the last 16. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">There, they will have to take the next step and win away from home after four successive home victories but regardless of the draw, they can now travel with confidence.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">You wouldn&#8217;t have said that a month ago, good night.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Goodnight from Rodney Paradepublished at 22:08 GMT 16 January 22:08 GMT 16 January FT: Dragons 35-12 Newcastle Image&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":376634,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[5903,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-376633","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-rugby","tag-rugby","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376633","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=376633"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376633\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/376634"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=376633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=376633"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=376633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}