JAMES HARRINGTON
FRENCH COLUMN

Injury concern: France may be without full-back Melvyn Jaminet for the autumn internationals
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The announcement this week from Racing 92 that France men’s team performance director Thibault Giroud will now not join the club after the 2023 World Cup was a surprise. But it wasn’t the only one as two more potentially big pieces of recruitment news broke the following day.
It turns out that even things as apparently etched in stone as Giroud’s move from Marcoussis to Nanterre can be erased. “Racing 92 and Thibault Giroud have made the joi...