{"id":779632,"date":"2026-09-23T05:06:12","date_gmt":"2026-09-23T05:06:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/779632\/"},"modified":"2026-09-23T05:06:12","modified_gmt":"2026-09-23T05:06:12","slug":"ereatara-enari-dragons-scrum-half-suffers-injury-ahead-of-urc-opener-at-benetton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/779632\/","title":{"rendered":"Ereatara Enari: Dragons scrum-half suffers injury ahead of URC opener at Benetton"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Dragons will also be without lock Levi Douglas for several weeks after he suffered a leg injury in the pre-season win against Scarlets in Llandovery.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 31-year-old does not need surgery but faces a battle to feature before the break for the November internationals.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;There is a little bit of a fracture in his leg,&#8221; said Tiatia. &#8220;He doesn&#8217;t need an operation but he will be out for a little while.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Douglas established himself as co-captain Ben Carter&#8217;s partner in the second row after arriving from Biarritz in the summer of 2025, featuring in 19 of 25 matches.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Dragons have Seb Davies, Matthew Screech, Barny Langton-Cryer and Nick Thomas as other specialist options in the second row, while flankers Ryan Woodman and Shane Lewis-Hughes have previously covered lock.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Tiatia&#8217;s side travel to Treviso and then remain in Wales for the rest of a crucial first block of the season in their bid to build on an encouraging 2025-26.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Dragons have home derbies against Scarlets and Ospreys in the URC, a Challenge Cup opener against Perpignan, an away fixture against Ospreys at the revamped St Helen&#8217;s and then a Newport fixture versus Zebre.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dragons will also be without lock Levi Douglas for several weeks after he suffered a leg injury in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":779633,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[5903,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-779632","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\/779632","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=779632"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/779632\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/779633"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=779632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=779632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=779632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}