'He's the best player, in my opinion, to ever play the game, and I think there's nothing he can't do,' says Simon Zebo
Simon Zebo was playing at Racing when Antoine Dupont rose to prominence at Toulouse and became first choice no9 with France.
"I don't think there's anything you can do, to be honest," shrugs Zebo, "I've seen multiple teams try to plan for him and fail miserably. Yeah, look, he has it all. Zebo giggles about one plan in particular, where the Racing players were told the nearest player to Dupont was responsible for tackling him, was to forget the defensive line, just try and dive on him.
"Antoine is so far ahead of every other rugby player in the world, I don't think you can compete against him so it's not fair to put him up against Jamison directly."
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