Antoine Dupont

Just, like, really, really solid guy in midfield.

Known as NHS for reasons, you know, and Naira Nguyen, I'm sure you can... put together and then Che Hope the scrum off who benefiting a bit from Kieran Hardy picking up a nasty knee injury the other week but Che Hope has been excellent still a youngster I described him the other day as I feel he's one of the first kind of post-Antoine Dupont scrum off's He feels like a guy who was a teenager, grew up and was like looking on the TV of like, who are the best remodels in the world? Who should I try and mod my game on? Saw DuPont was like, oh, you just do that then.

And so plays a bit like a pound shop version of DuPont from Newport.

And I'm greatly into that vibe.

He wants to beat Dan Carter.

So then the, you cannot do that without being deep in the Champions Cup and beating Antoine Dupont, of beating these guys.

You know, taking on the Northampton Saints and winning a game 85-84, whatever the scoring is going to.

I don't know what's happening with rugby.

I spoke to the Bulls this weekend, this week about a couple of things, and one of them was, you know, that s- s- people can get more excited about the Champions Cup, and I think that's one way to do it.

Win it or get, go very, very far.

So you can see Antoine Dupont coming to play here, and, uh, whoever else, you know, that you're not used to seeing.

People, players that you've heard about but you haven't seen.

Oh, dear.

I thought that Antoine Dupont was hit and miss in this game.

He had that charge down try, didn't he? When he was trying to clear his lines.

I just think...

Well, You look at all the number nines the All Blacks have had the last ten years, I suppose, and TJ Perenara, what a try-scorer he was, and then they bring this fella Cam Roygard in.

I'd say everyone talks about Antoine Dupont being the best number nine in the world and probably the best player in the world, but I tell you what, Cam Roygard would be in the top two nines in the world easily.

The way that he can read the game and he just gets his forward pack on a roll and he's got so many different options, especially off that little move there.

He had an option out the back, option short, and option back

So there's a lot of good nines in the world.

We're obviously talking about Toulouse and Antoine Dupont.

Is he the best scrum-half in the world at the moment?

Uh, Dupont has been the best nine in the world, and it's very hard because he sets such a high standard, and you expect him to do that.

International.

Okay, internationally, I'm going to go with Antoine Dupont.

It just makes a big difference to that French team.

He can kind of do it all.