■By RONAN O’NEILL

DRAGONS director of rugby Dean Ryan knows his players are still off the standard of the PRO14 elite as they slumped to a heavy defeat in Leinster.
There were just three places separating the sides in Conference A coming into this game on Friday but the home side were rampant at RDS.
Leinster scored eight tries with Dave Kearney and James Lowe grabbing two each while Michael Bent, Harry Byrne, Ronán Kelleher and Hugh O’Sullivan also touched down for the leaders.
Jordan Williams and Owen Jenkins scored consolations for Dragons but ...