 Throughout his career as both a player and a coach, Fouroux was unafraid of making enemies and upsetting people.This finally caught up with him in 1990, when an embarrassing 12–6 defeat to Romania provided a perfect excuse for the Fédération Française de Rugby to give him the sack.Following this he became the coach of FC Grenoble (1992–1993), whom he took to the final of the French League in 1993 with a massive pack nicknamed "the mammoths".