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Since Bernard Jackman's arrival at Rodney Parade, there has been a lot of talk about the changing attitude and culture at the Dragons.

And whilst things may not have improved a great deal in terms of results, here's evidence that Jackman and his players haven't simply been blowing hot air about the new mindset.

Rugby Pass were given behind-the-scenes access at the region during pre-season and they created this brilliant short documentary.

What they captured was a moment before the pre-season game against Exeter Chiefs when Jackman informed Pat Howard that he wouldn't be seeing any action that week because of a lack of work rate in training.

Before the Chiefs game, the Dragons invited Bath over for a training match at their Ystrad Mynach training base and Howard's perceived lack of effort was captured on video.

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"I just want to show a clip that has been bothering me for a couple of days. Just let it play," begins Jackman.

"So Pat. You come in here and you don't stop the ball. But I just want to have a look at what you do post that, ok."

The video clip then shows Howard jogging to the far side of a ruck instead of getting straight back into position in the defensive line.

"We don't come f****** here to go for a jog. There's a promenade down in Penarth, there's a promenade in Port Talbot. Go f****** jog there.

Addressing Howard directly, he adds: "You were going to get game time this weekend, now you're not.

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"That f****** should have been dealt with on Monday. I'm not going to come here every f****** review and talk about poor attitude and poor work rate. Is it clear?

"Now 95% of you, 98% of you, fixed it Tuesday but that's not going to be good enough for us to win.

"We're 100% or we're nothing, is that clear?

"Just f****** learn it and put it into place, that's bulls**t.

"Don't just nod and then game time, you'll be f****** packing your bags and getting out of here.

"I just want to make sure that you all understand that work rate it a given. Being honest and pushing yourself, it's a given.

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"I'm not going to keep asking for that because that's bulls**t. That's (Welsh) Premiership standard."

After receiving a fairly hefty dressing down in front of the entire squad, Howard then stands up to address his team-mates.

"Can I just say boys, in terms of standards, that's not good enough from me," said Howard. "That's not good enough for the standard to achieve the things that we want to achieve this season.

"I'll take that on the head there, that's my fault. I will do what I can to fix that."

After the training session with Bath, a video emerged on social media of the two forward packs getting involved in a bit of pushing and shoving.

There were no clear punches thrown but the scrummaging session certainly got heated.

Addressing the episode at an earlier meeting, Jackman revealed he was pleased by the way his men reacted.

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"Let's talk about Tuesday quickly. Obviously the forward had a bit of a dust up during the units session but it's f****** good," said the Dragons boss.

"Because one of them was taking the p*** and we sorted it out as a pack, and that's really important.

"So we sort it out quickly, then it's finished, then we move on to the next job, there's no afters afterwards. That was good.

"We're not going to be a dirty team but we're going to be hard-nosed. We stick up for each other and then we get back on with our job which is playing tough, uncompromising rugby."

Watch the full brilliant Rugby Pass documentary below