Poitrenaud and the “demonic” Dupont
Paul Rouget, Media365: published on Monday, September 12, 2022 at 9:52 p.m.
Despite another great performance during Toulouse-Toulon, Antoine Dupont was (slightly) scratched by Clément Poitrenaud, a three-quarter coach who pointed out his mistakes while insisting on his qualities.
Two out of two! A week after overthrowing UBB in Gironde (26-25), Stade Toulousain signed a second success in as many games on Sunday evening at the end of the second day of the Top 14, and is already at the top of the standings with one point. ahead of La Rochelle. Ugo Mola’s men almost left Toulon no chance, largely beaten at Ernest-Wallon (28-8). A success to which Antoine Dupont won once again, notably by being at the origin of the first two tries, signed Matthis Lebel then Dimitri Delibes. What to reap the congratulations of his staff? Yes, but not without some criticism, in addition, from Clément Poitrenaud, the former player of Stade Toulousain and the XV of France converted back coach.
“We know his punch”
“Antoine Dupont, we know his qualities. We are going to review the match in detail but there are still some things to review for him too. But we know his punch. As soon as he has a little space, he is demonic But he also had his share of individual errors.”, recalled Poitrenaud, not without a small smile, in a post-match press conference … This perfectionist, however, insisted on the areas of improvement of the team: “It is successful in terms of result , because we hadn’t planned to win this game with the offensive bonus point. We are, but we could have made it even easier and simpler in the game. We had real opportunities to have a bigger gap. important faster. But through individual mistakes and handball mistakes, we didn’t manage to score more.” A team that will unfortunately have to do without Romain Ntamack for many weeks since the international fly half injured his right ankle in a ruck during the match against the Toulonnais. And the fall of François Cros worries even more …