NEWPORT Gwent Dragons have been given a warning that they won't have things all their own way in Romania after Stade Francais sneaked a victory in the snow and cold against Bucharest Wolves.

The Parisians hung on for a 13-9 win at the Arcul de Triumf thanks to a try by Australia wing Digby Ioane and eight points from the boot of South Africa fly-half Morne Steyn.

It will be even colder when the Dragons head to Romania on Saturday, December 6 but Lyn Jones' men will need to take the spoils and then earn a bonus point win at Rodney Parade the following Friday to keep their qualification hopes alive.

They failed to follow up their shock opening weekend win at Stade when Newcastle took the spoils in Newport last Friday.

It leaves the Falcons in the box seat in Pool Three and Dean Richards' side will hope that a win in the North East against the Frenchmen in round three will deflate the Parisians ahead of a key encounter at Stade Jean Bouin.

Richards was delighted with his charges after they upset the odds at Rodney Parade.

The former England and Lions number eight said: "We have got to take our hats off to our young boys because they were absolutely outstanding.

"They're putting it in week after week and challenging the older lads so there are big decisions to be made.

"They put everything in to today and there were some shattered bodies in the changing room.

"We looked at Dragons' result at Stade and we thought it was outstanding. In the first half we stood off them a little bit too much and we said we had to come out in the second and take it to them.

"We made a conscious decision after half-time not to commit too many players to the breakdown. Second half we just threw one man in and everybody else fanned out.

"We were quite comfortable with our defence and the patience paid off with them knocking on or making mistakes.

"It was a little tasty but I would be disappointed if an English team didn't come to Wales and it wasn't, but what a great learning curve."