Without pouring into the conspiracy theory, everything suggests that the injury of Antoine Dupont, Saturday in Dublin, is not the fruit of chance.
The image is terrible: Antoine Dupont screaming in pain while his right knee folds under the weight of an opponent,
This Saturday during the shock of the Six Nations Tournament between Ireland and France. And the captain of the Blues leaving the lawn hardly, supported by two members of the three-color medical staff, in stride, even before half an hour of play.
At the very confession of a maxim Lucu who then had to replace the Toulousain at the foot of the melee half, Antoine Dupont was crying in the locker room in the locker room. A possible rupture of the cross ligaments being suspected – injury he has already had to face in his career, seven years earlier, already in Ireland …
Before the meeting, the spearhead of the Blues had not failed to underline the vice from the XV to the clover: ” We see all the matches of their defense. They almost continuously slow the opposing rucks with players often at the limit. I think it’s worked and very well done, they know the rule very well … Words that take on all their meaning here.
A (bad) voluntary gesture
If we look carefully at the fatal action to Antoine Dupont this Saturday, everything suggests that Tadgh Beirne voluntarily dropped to the side after having split the ruck – an unnecessary clearing and without the contrary push that can justify such a movement, with the consequence that we know for the joint of the French leader.
Australian referee Angus Gardner and his assistants in the video found nothing to say, and yet this intervention could have been sanctioned with a red card. “” A player should not drop his full weight on an opponent or target the lower limbs of an opponent “, Specifies World Rugby, the International Federation, in its rules.
“” On the gesture which in my opinion is reprehensible, there are the means to study and look at that », Souffled afterwards on France Télévisions Fabien Galkié, the coach of the Blues. The evil is done anyway for the knee of Antoine Dupont, which should be fixed on Sunday as for the exact nature of his injury.
