Welsh rugby's winners and losers as luckless star is everywhere and duo lose the plot

If the rugby weekend was a quiet one in Wales as the campaign heads towards a close, sparks were still flying in the derby between the Dragons and Cardiff at Rodney Parade with two red cards being handed out.

There were also a couple of bright individual performances in that game, displays which might just have interested Wayne Pivac ahead of his Wales squad announcement this week.

The awards season is also starting to get into full swing, with the Ospreys holding their prize-giving night at the Brangwyn Hall in Swansea.

Rugby correspondent Mark Orders casts an eye over the latest round of Welsh rugby winners and losers:

When Ollie Griffiths takes to the rugby field, it calls to mind the line from the late politician Roy Jenkins about carrying a Ming vase across a slippery floor. The fear is something will go wrong at any second, with significant consequences.

In Griffiths’ case it is his appalling fortune with injuries which prompts concern. Throughout his career, the back-rower has suffered one bump after another. Possibly, there would be a physio standing by if he went on A Question of Sport. When luck on the injury front was handed out on the day of his birth 27 years ago, the infant Oliver James Griffiths was near the back of the queue.

But the startling thing is when he returns from a layoff, he bangs in an eye-popping performance for the Dragons. He did it against the Ospreys the weekend before last, after he’d been out since late March with a groin problem, and he backed up that effort with an impressive display against Cardiff last Friday.

There were possession strips at important points, 15 tackles, 11 carries and physicality from Griffiths throughout. At one point his admirers might have feared the worst when