LYN Jones has hailed his fearless Newport Gwent Dragons young guns as Wales stars of the future as they attempt to make regional history by qualifying for the European Rugby Challenge Cup final.

The Dragons travel to Murrayfield on Friday night aiming to beat Edinburgh and go one step further than Paul Turner's class of 2007.

The Rodney Parade region head north on a four-game winning streak that has seen them down title hopefuls Ulster and Leinster, win at Treviso for the first time in the league and edge out Cardiff Blues in a nerve-shredding quarter-final.

And director of rugby Jones believes the likes of wing Hallam Amos, centres Jack Dixon and Tyler Morgan and flanker James Benjamin have shown they will be playing Test rugby as well as club rugby at Murrayfield in years to come.

"We are tomorrow's international Wales team in waiting," he said. "Having great exposure as young boys now is something a lot of people don't get in professional rugby.

"It's about playing without fear and we have nothing to fear. There is nothing to lose. We don't have £1million team of international players loading our team up.

"We are still a young group of players who need to play. You go into a changing room and you just wake up to how young these boys are. We see them making errors, which is normal for young kids.

"It is not costing us too much at the moment and good for the investment. We are just using every experience and learning and developing.

"The beauty of this group is that they haven't been to a lot of places before, geographically as well as emotional.

"So they are unsure how to behave and they react positively and they are not negative. Dragons teams of the past would slip a point or two behind and their heads will dip.

"We don't have that and we believe in ourselves and have developed an attacking game that will always make us the ability to score 20 odd points. All our performance graphs are pointing in the right direction."

The Dragons are slight underdogs for the clash with Edinburgh even though the hosts head into the game on the back of a 34-3 home thumping to Munster.

The winners will go on to face either Gloucester or Exeter at the Twickenham Stoop on Friday, May 1 and Jones says they are not in the last four to make up the numbers despite the English pair being strong favourites.

"We have not come to the end of the competition now without aspirations to make the final and win it," he said.

"At the start of the season we would have been delighted to have reached this stage and playing Edinburgh away in Murrayfield is going to be a great fixture. It's nice to see lots of support going up.

"It's about creating expectation and helping a young group understand what success feels like. Once you have experienced it you want more of it and it drives people on."

The Dragons name their team at midday (FRI) with loosehead prop Boris Stankovich rated as 50/50 because of a calf injury.