The Cardiff Dragons host London Pulse on Saturday at 6:30pm, hoping to add to their first home win of the season from last weekend.

It’s been a tight but promising start for the Dragons. Following an opening night draw at home to Saracens Mavericks, Cardiff won three and lost two of their next five games.

The Dragons’ two goal win over the Severn Stars last weekend has been the epitome of their season, “tense”!

“It was great to get our first home win of the season last weekend,” said Dragons vice-captain Laura Rudland.

“It’s always important for us to win our games whether we’re at home or away, but it does make it extra special winning at home in front of our green army.

“Against Stars we were able to close out a really close scoreline towards the end of the game and we’re getting smarter in doing that so that’s only going to help us moving to the rest of the season.”

Pulse finished second in the league last season before losing 48-57 to Loughborough Lightning in the play-off grand final and a win for Cardiff against Saturday’s opponents would be a great achievement in their progress.

“We know that every game this season is going to be really tough and there’s no easy games,” said Rudland who plays as a goal attack or wing attack.

“There’s a real sense of confidence and belief in the squad this year, as long as we play well and stick to task, we know we can beat any team, on any given day and we really believe that so it’s really exciting.

“We’re very much focused on ourselves but we want to be tested against the best, so it’s always really exciting when you’re playing against teams who have played in the top four or pushing to get in the top four this year because we want to challenge ourselves.

“It’s really exciting for us and we’re hoping to get a result over the line this weekend.”

Cardiff Dragons CEO Vicki Sutton described her sides start to the season as “tense” in her interview in next month’s Sportin Wales magazine. That is an understatement.

Along with the draw against Mavericks and two goal win last weekend, the Dragons also beat Leeds Rhinos by a solitary goal at the start of March.

“We’ve had some really exciting games this year,” said Rudland.

“I’m definitely expecting more of those throughout this season. With high quality opposition we are expecting each game to be goal-for-goal games but what’s really promising is I feel we’re learning from those experiences from earlier in the season.

“A real big focus for us as a collective this season has been keeping our error rate down, so that all the possession we get given from centre passes or any passes we gain we take through to a goal.

“That’s been really key in some of our wins this season that our error count has been a lot lower than it has been in other games.”

Whatever the result, there’s sure to be a fervent atmosphere at the House of Sport this Saturday.

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