Cardiff Blues’ Director of Rugby, John Mulvihill, has left his role six months prior to its planned three-year expiry. The region shiftily cited “personal reasons”. Dai Young, original Blues coach, has returned as interim Director of Rugby. Blues are stalled in fourth place, having won five of eleven games in the Guinness Pro14 this season. In their first game without an elected head coach, they beat Scarlets in their best performance of the season. Whilst the highs and lows of the region are extreme, they balance out to leave them stuck in mid-table purgatory, wondering how they got there. There are some answers to that thought.

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