Antoine Dupont : Sat Feb 01, 2025 8:18 am  

Entering into the realms of fantasy here but he'd certainly add a bit of star quality in the halfs at Trinity .

What a player .

Re: Antoine Dupont : Sat Feb 01, 2025 8:59 am  

Who?

Re: Antoine Dupont : Sat Feb 01, 2025 9:25 am  

Thought it was one of the 3 muscateers

Re: Antoine Dupont : Sat Feb 01, 2025 9:37 am  

ok just looked him up... apparently plays Rugby (union) for France... Thankfully that's a sport that is isolated to a minor subscription channel here in Aus! I haven't seen a union game in over ten years!

[PopTart]

Re: Antoine Dupont : Sat Feb 01, 2025 9:46 am  

So would half the French Union team.
Including their defensive coach.

But they play a different sport, for more money than we are paying.

He's on more than £500k a year and has top level endorsement deals.
It would be easier to get Ivan Cleary's lad.

Re: Antoine Dupont : Sat Feb 01, 2025 10:05 am  

PopTart wrote:

So would half the French Union team.
Including their defensive coach.

But they play a different sport, for more money than we are paying.

He's on more than £500k a year and has top level endorsement deals.
It would be easier to get Ivan Cleary's lad.

are France any good now... ??? Seems to be very high salaries for a sport whose teams in England are regularly going bust (sweeping statement based on snippets and soundbites, but I couldn't quote which clubs... So I might be wrong)

Re: Antoine Dupont : Sat Feb 01, 2025 10:30 am  

Monsieur Dupont la la la la

One for the oldies.

Re: Antoine Dupont : Sat Feb 01, 2025 11:12 am  

Wollo-Wollo-Wollo-Wayoo wrote:

Monsieur Dupont la la la la

One for the oldies.

Better off signing Sandie Shaw, at least she wouldn't need a boot deal.

Re: Antoine Dupont : Sat Feb 01, 2025 11:16 am  

Spookisback wrote:

ok just looked him up... apparently plays Rugby (union) for France... Thankfully that's a sport that is isolated to a minor subscription channel here in Aus! I haven't seen a union game in over ten years!

I was lucky enough to be in Australia in 2023 watching NRL games and looking at media and TV channels union looked as though it was on its Bankside over there…

Re: Antoine Dupont : Sat Feb 01, 2025 11:57 am  

Obviously I'm a League man through and through but I'm not anti Union either and enjoy the 6 Nations and the World Cup .

Dupont is a generational talent without a single weakness to his game , it's never going to happen given the salary he commands in Union but he'd be sensational in Rugby League , way above even Bevan French in my opinion .

I know the transition from Union to League doesn't always come off and vice versa but I believe in Dupont's case he'd make the transition easily .