PAUL Turner has revealed his Christmas wish list – home Magners League derby victories over Welsh rivals the Ospreys and Cardiff Blues, starting with the Liberty Stadium outfit tomorrow night.

Though the Ospreys provided the lion’s share of Wales’ Grand Slam team last season, the Dragons boast a proud record against them, losing only once in five matches at Rodney Parade.

Another victory would bring an end to a run of six defeats in a row and send the Dragons into their Boxing Day fixture against Cardiff Blues in confident mood.

“Wins in these games are on my Christmas wish list and there’s a lot of effort going into it,” said Turner. “The spirits are pretty high even though we always knew we had five away games against arguably some of the best teams in Europe.

“A score of 52-20 in the two games against Toulouse – would I have taken that when the draw came out? Probably I would have.

“We have started the recovery process and we are on the point of recruiting as we speak, then we’ll be better again.

“Let’s hope we get those wins over Christmas - we need them because winning breeds confidence and self belief.

“We’re in the winning business and if we could get a couple of wins we’d climb the table, we’ll be trying our best to get them.

“It’s been a tough couple of weeks with the Toulouse games. Out there we were probably never in it, but at home the players were quite physically exhausted.”

Turner is expecting a big game against the Ospreys who are lying third in the league table, six places and nine points better off than the Dragons, each team having played six fixtures.

“The Ospreys are a talented side with a good squad and they are also developing the youngsters. And they’ve got the momentum after winning home and away against Treviso, we are well aware of their strength,” he said.

“We have got to match them physically, it won’t be easy but if we play the right game we can come out on top. They’ve rarely won here and sometimes form goes out of the window in local derbies.”

Turner says talks will be held with Lyn Jones in the next week as the Dragons close in an an appointment as attack coach to succeed David Rees.

Jones has been doing the job on a consultancy basis and this week has been helping the Dragons against the region he coached for five years. “We’ll talk in the next couple of days. Lyn is doing well for us and we’re pleased with it,” said Turner.