If there is a debate as to whether Antoine Dupont or Jamison Gibson-Park is the leading scrum-half in the world, I would ask myself which one I’d prefer to play alongside and in my opinion there is no contest. Dupont is the best player in the world. I have to go back to Dan Carter and the performances he produced during the 2005 British & Irish Lions tour for the last time I saw such a complete player.
Whether it is his passing, his immaculate box-kicking off both feet, the assists, the breaks, the tries, his jackalling … World Rugby has even had to change a law named after him. And he continues to do it in a season on the back of a World Cup and in which he has transferred to sevens.
