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Dupont, des trophées et deux plaques

Antoine Dupont avait été blessé face à la Namibie à la suite d'un plaquage dangereux du capitaine namibien. Les plaques de titane qui lui avaient été posées pour consolider la fracture viennent de lui être retirées. (Photo by David Rogers/Getty Images)

Personne n’a oublié ce 21 septembre 2023. La France affronte la Namibie pour son troisième match de poule de Coupe du Monde.

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Une rencontre a priori « facile » pour les Bleus, qui sont encore en rodage et qui finiront par l’emporter 96-0.

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Mais à la 49e minute, c’est le drame. La tête du capitaine namibien Johan Deysel heurte maladroitement la pommette d’Antoine Dupont. Bien qu’involontaire, le choc est violent.

Résultat : carton rouge pour Deysel, et surtout une fracture maxillo-zygomatique pour ‘Toto’ Dupont.

S’en suivirent une opération expresse avec pose de deux plaques, une convalescence tout aussi rapide et un retour sur les terrains pour le quart de finale perdu contre l’Afrique du Sud (28-29)…

Un an plus tard quasiment jour pour jour, le demi de mêlée s’est fait retirer ces fameuses plaques de consolidation.

Il a partagé ça sur une story publié sur son compte Instagram ce mardi, comme pour expliquer pourquoi sa pommette était légèrement bleue lundi soir, à l’occasion de la cérémonie de la Nuit du rugby.

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Il y a raflé deux trophées (meilleur joueur du Top 14 et meilleur joueur international français), qu’il déposera peut-être à côté de ces deux petits bouts de titane, comme une relique d’un des (rares) échecs dans la carrière de Dupont, et peut-être source de motivation jusqu’à la prochaine Coupe du Monde, en 2027…

Visionnez gratuitement le documentaire en cinq épisodes “Chasing the Sun 2” sur RugbyPass TV (*non disponible en Afrique), qui raconte le parcours des Springboks dans leur quête pour défendre avec succès leur titre de Champions du monde de rugby

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JW 37 minutes ago
Let's be real about these All Blacks

I didn't really get the should tone from it, but maybe because I was just reading it as my own thoughts.


What I read it as was examples of how they played well enough in every game to be able to win it.


Yeah I dunno if Ben wouldn't see it that way (someone else would for sure need to point it out to him though), I'm more in the Ben not appreciating that those close losses werent one off scenarios camp. Sure you can look at dubious decisions causing them to have to play with 14 or 13 men at the death as viable reasons but even in the games they won without such difficulties they made a real struggle of it (compared to how good some of their first half play was). This kind of article where you trying to point out the 3 losses really would most likely have been wins only really makes sense/works when your other performances make those 3 games (or endings) stand out.


There might have been a sentence here and there to ensure some good comment numbers but when he's signing off the article by saying things like ..

Whilst these All Blacks aren’t blowing teams off the park like during the 2010s, they are nuggety and resourceful and don’t wilt. They are prepared to win the hard way, accumulating points by any means necessary.

and..

The other top sides in the world struggled to put them away. France and South Africa both could have well been defeated on home soil.

I don't really see it. Always making sure people are upto date with the SH standing/perspective! NZ went through some tough times with so many different perspectives and reasons why, but then it was.. amusing how.. behind everyone was once they turned a corner. More of these 'unfortunate' results returned against SA and France at the start of the RWC which made it extra tasty to catch other teams out when they did bring it. So that created some 'conscious' perspective that I just kept going and sharing re thoughts on similar predicaments of other teams, I had been really confident that Wallabies displays vs NZ were real, that the Argentines can backup their thing against Aus and SA (and so obviously the rest), and current one is that England are actually consistent and improving with their attack (which everyone should get onboard with), and I'm expecting a more dominant display against Japan (even though they should have more of their experienced internationals for this one) that highlights further growth from July. 👍

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