Rugby Matters By Brendan Gallagher - A weekly look at the game's other talking points

I think we established long ago that my admiration of Antoine Dupont knows no bounds, he is the best rugby player I have ever reported on or watched in the flesh, pipping Gareth Edwards by a short head, but there is no question that there is a gaping huge hole in his CV which many cite against him when the all-time lists are compiled and debated.
I’m not talking about his failure to land a World Cup winners’ medal – that is totally irrelevant to his iconic status in my eyes – but the deficiency to which I ...