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"Share this game with each other, with the staff and the fans"

  • Pierre Gayraud

Pierre Gayraud and the Grenoblois take on Perpignan on Thursday at the Stade des Alpes

Is this match against Perpignan the most exciting of the return phase?

"It will be one of the most exciting. I think they're in first place right now. With Colomiers. They're ahead of us. It's going to be a great party, I hope. We'll be keen to receive them well, like they received us last time. Then we'll have to have a good match. That's going to be the most important thing. Share that between us, between the players, the staff, the public. It's going to be a very exciting game. There'll be others to play, that's for sure. But we'll take this one first. "

FCG had struggled in the first leg, as they did last week in Nevers. Is your pride affected?

"It's not pride that was titillated. It's rugby. They were good. They played their game well. We defended. Now it's up to us to work. We worked for it. We're gonna make it right. Let's hope so, and usually we do, starting tomorrow. "

We'll have to be fierce: Perpignan has the best attack in the championship.

"That's for sure. Especially if we correlate with what you said just before... Defensively, we fished a bit in Nevers. So, being the best offense, we'd better play well, put a lot of effort into defending, take the game as it comes and really go for it. "

First place is also one of the stakes in this match?

"That's for sure. Anyway, it's going to be like this for the rest of the season. We know that the Pro D2 is a championship that lasts, that is played until the end. With the same system as the Top 14 for two years now. It's going to be a crossover. It's up to us to try to make sure that we get ahead of them and that this crossover stops. And then we'll see what happens. "