WALES coach Steve Hansen is hoping that tomorrow's Test against Scotland will provide his squad with another chance to ease the pain of losing to England.

Although Welsh rugby's 284-day wait for a Test victory came to an overdue end against Romania on Wednesday, Hansen and his players are still under intense pressure to beat one of world rugby's major powers.

But the party is unlikely to have the lions' share of the Welsh public behind them when Scotland arrive in Cardiff.

Early indications suggest that no more than 25,000 will pitch up to see Wales' final World Cup warm-up game at the Millennium Stadium - almost 50,000 shy of capacity.

However, the under-fire coach has promised the public that while Saturday's 43-9 defeat cannot be forgotten, his players are desperately determined to put things right.

"It's another chance for 22 of our squad players to bid for places in the World Cup squad and to get a good performance and a win under their belts," said Hansen.

"After Saturday's game, we needed to regroup and look at ways of improving on what was a shocking performance."

Meanwhile, Newport and Gwent Dragons have lost out to Bath for the signature of Robbie Fleck, the former South Africa centre.

The previous regime in charge of ther Dragons wanted to sign Fleck for only an eight-month period which was not acceptable, and he has now signed a two-year contract with Bath.

The WRU have yet to meet the Newport and Gwent Dragons board to discuss the changes announced last week because key people have been away.

"We are also waiting for Ebbw Vale to announce their replacement for Marcus Russell on the joint board.

"All I can say at the moment is we will definitely have Newport in the name," said Dragons chief executive David Jenkins.

He is also hoping for a greater number of Newport fans to snap up the joint membership ticket.

"We are over 1,000 now, but quite a lot haven't joined," he said. "It's not fair to expect Tony Brown or the Newport board to fund this now, we hope to do that through supporters purchasing tickets, so I would ask them to join up."