Rugby Union: UNDER PRESSURE; Young's still the man to lead us, insists Blues chief Thomas after more Euro woe.(Sport)

From: Western Mail (Cardiff, Wales) | Date: April 9, 2008 | Copyright information

Byline: Gareth Griffiths

BLUES chairman Peter Thomas believes David Young is still the man to deliver silverware at the Arms Park.

Young guided the Blues to the Heineken Cup quarter-finals for the first time in their short history, but their crushing defeat last Sunday in Toulouse has left the region facing another year without silverware.

Young has been at the helm of the Cardiff club side and the Blues regional outfit for six seasons and it has been eight years since a team fromthe Arms Park has won a title.

But Thomas has handed Young a ringing endorsement and ...

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