HEAD coach Kingsley Jones lamented Newport Gwent Dragons' failure to 'change the story' after being hindered by familiar shortcomings in the 27-11 loss in Treviso.

The 18-month wait for an away win in the Guinness Pro12 goes on after a 16th defeat on the spin away from Rodney Parade.

Treviso led 10-8 at half-time after Dragons lock Rynard Landman, who was forced off at half-time with a tight calf, responded to Tommaso Benvenuti's opening try.

However, second half scores by locks Filo Paulo and Marco Fuser meant that the Welsh side headed home with nothing to show for their efforts.

"There was lots of good in our game but we went to Treviso with the aim of making fewer than 10 errors and conceding fewer than 10 penalties, which we didn't do," said the former Wales flanker.

"The source of their points was soft penalties and silly mistakes and we have to sort that out.

"We were very positive at half-time because we felt we were in a position to win – it was tight when Ulster played in Treviso until 50 minutes into the game.

"But we failed to exit well yet again and kicked the ball out on the full three times without being under any pressure. All that did was give the momentum to Treviso.

"The players put their hands up to making individual mistakes afterwards but it's so frustrating because we are not a million miles away but have to realise the importance of compounding errors with errors.

"We want to change the story and I felt we went some way to doing that against Munster (when edged out 20-16) but we failed to build on that performance.

"In some ways it wouldn't be so bad if we lost because we couldn't deal with things that the opposition did but instead it is our own mistakes undoing so much good work."

Jones made seven changes to the XV that could have nicked the victory against Munster and stood by his decisions.

"I don't regret making changes," he said. "We brought in Adam Warren and Nic Cudd, who were two of our best performers last year," said the head coach.

"It wasn't the players that came in who made the mistakes and I was pleased with Matthew Screech, James Thomas and Ashton Hewitt."

Next up is a home clash with Glasgow, who suffered a 22-17 defeat to Ulster at Scotstoun, on Friday evening.

"Glasgow are a strong side but every team in this league is tough. We respected Treviso and knew that their defeat to the Ospreys (64-10 the previous week) was an irrelevance," said Jones.

"All that we can do is work hard and look forward. This is gone now and we have to move on and get back on the horse."