NEWPORT Gwent Dragons captain Jason Forster insists they must roar away as well as at home, starting with Saturday's game against Celtic League bottom team Connacht in Galway.

The Dragons are unbeaten at Rodney Parade this year, winning all their five games, including two sparkling performances against Leinster and Munster, but they have won only one of their last 21 away games stretching back to October 2004.

"We've got to go to Ireland firing and with real purpose," said Forster who is enjoying something of an Indian summer, still going strong at 35 and the scorer of four tries in his last six appearances since recovering from a groin injury.

"The main goal now is to make sure we qualify for Europe again. We're in a dogfight, but we're too good to be where we are and we'll be doing our utmost to make sure we qualify," stressed Forster.

"We want to make sure we're at least third best placed Welsh team in the league and keep on winning. We can't go into our shells, we know we can play and we've got to keep on playing.

"We've got to go away to places like Connacht and the Borders and look to build on what we've done at home.

"It has come right, but we want to be consistent like Munster and play in the right areas. We've got to be more consistent in our approach to the final games, it's crucial we're on the button and play in the same way again.

"We can't give easy scores away like we did in the first minutes against Munster, but we're working hard on the training field and we've got to make sure the errors don't creep back in.

"The Munster game was the performance we needed. We scored some top draw tries, the platform the front five provided was huge which made it easy for the backline."

The Dragons face three games in a week after going five weeks without a fixture recently, starting with Connacht, then Cardiff Blues at Rodney Parade a week on Wednesday, then Llanelli Scarlets at Stradey Park a week Saturday.

Then they face the three Scottish teams in their final games, Glasgow and Edinburgh at home and Borders away at the end of May in their final game, unless they have to face the third placed Italian team on June in a play-off for the final Heineken Cup spot next season.

Hal Luscombe is expected to be fit after injuring an arm against Munster which, rarely, brought about the only substitution in the match.

Kevin Morgan, Gareth Cooper, Kieran Crawford and Richard Bryan are the four absentees, all injured and out for the rest of the season.

Coach Paul Turner is looking for more new blood and will announce signings before the end of the season.