That prompted an honest response of their failings in the Dragons dressing room according to skipper Coombs with six more matches of the regular season campaign to go.
The first sees them travel to Italy to face Zebre but lock Coombs wants the highlighting of their poor performance against Connacht to stop and their rugby to start doing the talking.
"The boys were pretty honest with each other after the game and everyone put their hands up to their mistakes but it's about a reaction now, not just admitting where you went wrong," Coombs told the South Wales Argus.
"We have to regather our thoughts, train well and go from there. It's still tight [in the league] and we have to be positive. First half we weren't good enough; second half we weren't good enough. We were way off the mark and need to get much better."
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