Scotland worldwide Blair Kinghorn has make clear what it’s like having Antoine Dupont as his Toulouse teammate. It was round this time final 12 months when the long-serving Edinburgh participant stop the URC for the High 14 and his one-year anniversary was celebrated in smashing trend with final Sunday’s 61-21 hammering of Ulster.
France scrum-half Dupont was unplayable in that Investec Champions Cup opener and his swashbuckling efficiency was capped by his mesmerising kicked help to place Ange Capuozzo in on the nook for a 57th-minute attempt.
Kinghorn has since made a visitor look on the most recent Rugby Pod present and he defined to co-hosts Andy Goode and Jim Hamilton what it’s wish to have Dupont as a teammate. “It’s humorous, you at all times get requested about him as a result of persons are so as a result of he’s the most effective participant on this planet. Is he the most effective participant of all-time? Perhaps. Who is aware of. I don’t know. Are you aware?
“From a rugby standpoint, the stuff he does in coaching, how onerous he works, the stuff that you just see on the weekend there, his kick-pass score-assist to Ange within the nook, it’s not by likelihood that’s taking place, the period of time you will note him try this in coaching pre, put up and through coaching you perceive how he’s so correct round sport day, he practices a lot.
“From a non-rugby level, he’s only a regular bloke to be sincere. He’s so well-known and he performs so effectively, you are feeling like may which have gone to somebody’s head nevertheless it’s not the case there.
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“He’s simply so chilled, only a good bloke, like to hang around, going out for meals the entire time, have a little bit of banter right here and there. Identical to a traditional man who appears to hang around along with his buddies and turns up on the weekend and does his issues. He’s not greater within the workforce. I don’t suppose he views himself like that in any respect. Only a normal all-round good lad.”
Requested was there a participant within the Toulouse facet whose means took him without warning, Kinghorn claimed he had his eyes opened by hooker Peato Mauvaka. “He’s most likely one of the crucial skilful gamers I’ve ever come throughout,” he enthused.
“When is simply mucking round at coaching pre or put up coaching he is rather like at all times has a ball in his fingers, he doesn’t drop balls. Somebody will chuck a ball and he’s simply grabbing it with one hand, enjoying soccer the entire time, simply all these small expertise – he simply nails it.
“He caught me proper without warning. Top-of-the-line ball handlers within the workforce, so skilful. He will get a number of reward now for the stuff that he’s doing within the French workforce.
“I bear in mind watching within the World Cup when Julian Marchand obtained injured and Peato had come on early in that New Zealand sport and he was carving up. Who is that this man, what’s going on? Going to play with him, he’s simply loopy. He’s a humorous bloke as effectively however his expertise are high.”
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