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Grenoble suffering a week to forget

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The Rugby Paper Team
5 October 2025

JAMES HARRINGTON
FRENCH COLUMN

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GRENOBLE’S 23-24 loss at home to Provence on Friday night was the tin lid on a week to forget for the ProD2 side – who, you may recall, have lost the last three championship finals and the resulting promotion-relegation play-off against the 13th-placed side in the Top 14.
Backs coach Nicolas Nadau was provisionally suspended on Monday, pending a disciplinary hearing on Friday, over a pitchside outburst in the previous match – a 24-21 defeat at Brive – after a blood injury to prop Johannes Jonker took...

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