Ill discipline sees our Federale 1 favourites slump to their second defeat of the season and squander another bonus point in a kicking contest

Langon 15 Vannes 6: Vannes fell to their second defeat of the season, losing a kicking contest to bottom-of-the-table Langon after losing three players to the sin-bin over the course of the 80 minutes.

The Bretons made the brighter start, making inroads into the Langon half before captain and flanker Jorge Gonzalez set up the ruck from which Argentine outside-half Juan Gabriel Mistura slotted an eighth-minute drop goal.

Julien Lavie levelled the scores at the end of the first quarter, and soon Vannes were up against it, down to 13 men after first winger Mauricio Gimenez saw yellow before hooker Regis Loubery received a white card - the Federale 1 sanction for technical infringement - and 10 minutes in the sinbin.

Our Federale 1 favourites held out till half-time, but after the break, as Langon pressed forward, Lavie punished a series of infringements to kick Langon into a 9-3 lead with two penalties. The visitors were down to 14 men again after a second white card, and when centre Morgan Sourillan kicked a pair pf long-range efforts to make it 15-3 going into the final quarter, Vannes had little to play for but a bonus point.

A Steeve Sargos penalty for Vannes made it 15-6 immediately as Vannes piled on the pressure, but the Senegalese full back missed a second attempt minutes later and was denied again when his grubber through the Langon defence rolled out of play. Langon's pack held firm for the final minutes and for the second week in a row, Vannes were left to rue a squandered bonus point.

Second string: Vannes B remain unbeaten as they beat Langon's reserves 15-9 in the curtain-raiser.

Also in Pool 3: Colomiers 24 Saint-Junien 18, Saint-Nazaire 14 Saint-Medard 15, Lavaur 18 Hagetmau 9, Saint-Jean-de-Luz 26 Morlaas 3

Next up: Vannes vs Colomiers, Sunday October 30, Stade Jo Courtel, Vannes.

Colomiers are the one team in this group that need no introduction. Heineken Cup finalists as recently as 1999 and 23-28 losers to Stade Francais in their domestic final a year later, Toulouse's other club have never again scaled those heights. Slipping out of the top flight in 2005, they fell out of Pro D2 two years later and although they came straight back up at the first attempt, finished a safe 14th twice before dropping back down to Fed1 this summer.

Inevitably relegation brought a clear-out of Colomiers' better playing staff, with players moving on to be be replaced by Fed1 regulars like South African centre Jeffrey Perkins and portugese flanker Aurelien Beco and Top 14 cast-offs like Montpellier centre Florian Nicot and Stade Francais prop Damien Weber.

The drop has also allowed some familiar faces to return, including hooker Benjamin Rioux (who spent six years at Colomiers before heading to Graulhet in 2009), Jerome Cholley, son of Castres giant Gerard, and his fellow lock Antoine Bourdin, who played as a youth for Colomiers before embarking on a six-club Tour de France prior to his return to Stade Michel-Bendichou (which was still Stade Selery when he left in 2001).

There is still one Top 14 link with Colomiers - it was Montpellier coach Eric Bechu who designed the club's dove badge when he played for the club in the 1980s.

The news Fed-lines: Three of the four 100% records in Pool 1 tumbled over the weekend, with only Lille making it a perfect three from three with a superb 16-9 win at Nevers. The match was poised at 9-all going into the last 10 minutes, when appropriately ever-present No.8 Constant Justusmus scored the only try of the game, Danny Gerber racing to the 50-point mark for the season with the conversion that sealed the win. Big-money Nevers slump to ninth, while the trio of Massy, Bobigny and Dijon faced defeat for the first time, the Parisians of Bobigny falling 20-22 at home to Montlucon thanks to a dramatic injury time try by former Clermont hooker Mirko Lozupone, converted by fly-half Anthony Bourgeois, newly arrived at Stade des Ilets after several years at Tarbes.

Montauban, Castanet and Bourg-en-Bresse remain undefeated in Pool 2, Stade Phocéen coming back to earth after last week's surprise win at Saint-Etienne to find themselves at the receiving end of a 12-try, 81-7 thrashing by US Bressane, made "a parody of rugby" according to the club's website after the cash-strapped Marseilles club arrived in east France with only one prop on the bench, meaning uncontested scrums and a statutory 25-0 win to the hosts if governing body the FFR deem it appropriate to take action against the visitors.

Colomiers retained their 100% record in Pool 3 after a surprisingly tight 24-18 home win over Saint-Junien, Saint-Jean-de-Luz climbing to second with the pool's only double-figure victory of the week, a 26-3 defeat of Morlaas - Vannes' group would seem to be the closest of all four Fed1 pools.

Lourdes welcomed Valence d'Agen in a match which would see one of the pair's 100% records fall. In the event, both saw their perfect starts end, l'Avenir's Julien Lacombe coming off the bench to force an 18-all draw in the 78th minute after Lourdes' Mathieu Pouey and Valence's Anthony Tesquet had kicked 11 penalties between them during the course of a close match.

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