HALLAM Amos was gone in 45 seconds last Friday, running in one of the simplest tries he will score when making his Newport Gwent Dragons return.

“I don't know who writes his scripts,” said Lyn Jones after the win against Castres. If the director of rugby did then he’d have to pass their name on to wings Nick Scott and Aled Brew, who must have looked on with envy.

Scott, an unused replacement against the Frenchmen at Rodney Parade, is yet to break his duck since his summer arrival from London Welsh while Brew, who watched the Challenge Cup win from Jersey while with the Dragons’ British and Irish Cup team, last crossed the line for the Dragons on April 13, 2012.

What they would give to be given the simple task of merely catching the ball and cantering over from the 22.

It was a gimme but Amos is different to anything else the region has got in the back three; he makes things happen with his pace, power, strong hips and fast feet.

His record of 11 tries in 27 games last season backs that up, as does the manner of some of those scores against Stade Francais, Treviso, Newcastle, Cardiff Blues and Connacht. The 21-year-old is a finisher with power and pace that the Dragons haven’t had since the pre-Biarritz Brew.

That is not to put down fellow young speedster Ashton Hewitt, who has provided plenty of joy for Dragons fans in what has been a testing season with his livewire running, but the rapid recovery of Amos after four months out with a shoulder injury has already given Rodney Parade a lift.

The same will be the case when Tyler Morgan returns from his own World Cup injury, hopefully against Leinster in Newport next Friday.

He provides a finishing threat from anywhere on the field and the sort of offloading skill that is par for the course in New Zealand but not in Wales.

Like Amos, the 20-year-old from Caerleon is a player who raises the excitement levels whenever the ball is on its way into his mitts.

That is not to say that the midfield has struggled badly without the 20-year-old from Caerleon and his fellow bright prospect Jack Dixon because the two Adams, Warren and Hughes, have proved to be outstanding captures.

Warren has been consistently super at 12 since his summer arrival from the Scarlets. He does the simple things well and has a low error count.

Hughes, whose return on loan from Exeter has been turned permanent, runs good lines and runs them hard, although he will acknowledge that should have more than one try to his name.

It means that the Dragons will have some welcome selection headaches in the coming weeks and months but the return of Amos and Morgan, who are shoo-ins, adds some welcome panache to a side that has been hard to watch for large chunks of the season.

The coaching team may disagree – and perhaps analyst Will Precious will be able to provide some stats to prove otherwise – but the amount of kicking in the Guinness Pro12 is killing the Dragons.

The Joneses at the helm will state that the side who kicks more accurately comes out on top and in their defence they could point to their best display of the season, the crushing win in Pau, was earned by fly-half Jason Tovey keeping them on the front foot with his left peg. Only then did they chance their arm and stretch their French hosts with an expansive (and error-free) approach.

The Dragons undoubtedly have a European conundrum – how can they play with such expression in the Challenge Cup and seemingly with the handbrake on in the league?

They deny that they go into the Euro games with a different approach so therefore it can only be a combination of a lack of respect from their opponents, who reckon they can just bulldoze a side struggling in the Pro12, and a subconsciously more daring attitude.

Whatever the issue is, hopefully the return of the Dragons young Wales internationals will help transfer the more thrilling, running rugby into the league.

That’s quite a burden on the (recently operated on) shoulders of two up-and-coming talents but everything points to Amos and Morgan being up to the task. They are not only dangerous individuals but they encouragingly have the ability to bring the best out of their teammates.

South Wales Argus:

ROBIN McBryde was full of hope for a number of Dragons forwards when speaking to me after the announcement of the Wales squad for the Six Nations.

He cited hooker Elliot Dee as a leading contender for international honours while praised the development of openside Ollie Griffiths and locks Matthew Screech and Cory Hill, pointed to the talent of Under-20s blindside/number eight Harri Keddie and tighthead Leon Brown while he also said that Phil Price has been in good form at loosehead.

Sadly it’s a familiar tale with the international management saying that a Dragons player is knocking hard at the door but that they will have to bide their time.

In truth, there is currently only one really unlucky player in the Rodney Parade crop to miss out on a Six Nations call – Dee.

I’d have him in the squad ahead of Kristian Dacey and the 21-year-old from Newbridge is the sort of character who would thrive in the international camp.

There is so much growth in his game and I believe Warren Gatland is missing a trick by not calling him up to at least train alongside experienced front row forwards Gethin Jenkins and Ken Owens before going back to keep progressing in the Pro12 with the Dragons when not needed for Test matchday.

What probably counted against Dee was that when Gatland tuned in to the Dragons’ festive derbies against Cardiff Blues and the Ospreys from his home in New Zealand he would have seen Rhys Thomas in the 2 jersey.

But time is on Dee’s side and I am confident that the hooker won’t be added to the list of Dragons prospects who were in contention for a cap but never quite made it.

He has the talent, he has the mentality and now he just needs a chance.