XV of France – A Le Garrec – Dupont hinge during the match

Among the three options mentioned throughout this file, it is a priori the least credible. However, it has its defenders in the Top 14 and in all the commercial cafés in the region. Associate Nolann Le Garrec and Antoine Dupont, then? And why not, after all? Since the start of the season, the golden boy of Morbihan is pretty much the only thing that really works on the Hauts-de-Seine side and has undeniably started the 2024-2025 financial year on a similar tempo to that which he had set last year: in truth, Le Garrec is a game accelerator like few others in the championship, has the gift of creating spaces via his initiatives at the rucks and, “last but not least”, has the merit of being one of the most precise scorers in the championship (62 points scored in five matches played).

Recently placed in the list of twenty-five “premium players” of the French XV by Fabien Galthié, the Racing scrum half therefore enjoys a special status in the eyes of the national coach, who wishes to have him play as many matches as possible. To do this, “Galette” has two possibilities: reposition his Antoine Dupont totem at the start of the match or, much more likely, drag the best player in the world to position number 10 during the match to support himself. lastingly and in the face of a tired defense on the qualities of “NLG”. And this second option, which will allow Fabien Galthié to give space to Nolann Le Garrec without depriving himself of his most beautiful ambassador, is taking shape more and more on the Marcoussis side…

Dupont, the essential hybrid

Obviously, the French staff understood like us that Antoine Dupont, gold medalist of the last Olympic Games, was just as strong at the opening as he was posted behind a pack of forwards and that he would in reality be very stupid to deprive oneself of the gift of ubiquity of such a hybrid, a polymorphous athlete that the sports boss of Stade Toulouse Ugo Mola is also one day thinking of repositioning in the middle of the field. Clearly, if it seems to date highly unlikely that Fabien Galthié, conservative by nature, will start the autumn tour with a Le Garrec-Dupont hinge, it is almost certain that the two best scrum halves in the championship will be associated in match course, throughout the month of November. Frankly ? We’re salivating in advance…