DAVIT Kubriashvili is only halfway through the season but already far ahead of schedule to break all yellow card records. Grenoble’s veteran prop has collected five in 12 starts for the Pro Deux leaders, a figure made all the more unusual given the Georgian’s track record for previously keeping on the right side of the law. During seven seasons in the Top 14, first with Stade Francais, then Montpellier, Kubriashvili made only three visits to the bin. One more and he will have been there twice as often in not much more than three months.

Unless fate gives him a helping hand, Ro...