CHRIS HEWETT
THINKING ALLOWED

Dupont or no Dupont, Ntamack or no Ntamack, this latest edition of the Champions Cup may well turn out to be the story of Toulouse, partly because so many of their fellow French contenders are scrabbling against elimination and partly because they’re so ridiculously good when the force is with them.
Statistics over the first two rounds tell us the following tale: they have not only scored more tries than anyone else, but have also made more clean breaks and more metres, kicked more conversions and – not wholly surprising, this bit – racked up more points. In ...