Caught Blue Handed

By Lestyn 05/03/04
March 5 2004

As a player and most recently as team manager Derwyn Jones was a fans favorite at the Arms Park, yet the big lock will leave with with more enemies than friends.

On the day Jones took up his new team manager role with the Ospreys, his former employees were fuming for what they saw as "gross misconduct and breach of contract."

Jones has made little secret of his desire to leave the capital over the last few months and head back to his native West Wales, but the manner in which he has done so has left a very bitter taste in the mouth for all those at the CAP.

A disciplinary committee found the 19 times Wales cap guilty of leaking confidential information to the Ospreys whilst still under contract to Cardiff, along with also trying to entice a player to follow him to the West Glamorgan region.

With both sides battling it out to avoid not qualifying for next years Heineken cup, Jones's actions are very serious indeed.

He will be little loss to the Blues, who already have another former player, Adrian Hadley lined up for the role.

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