A few seasons ago Toulouse had lost their way. Their traditional “Toulousain” style of attacking rugby was deemed by the mindless followers of fashion as too old school.
It won’t work against “modern” defensive systems was the perceived wisdom of the ignorant and mindless mob.
The once innovative world leaders lost the true north of their rugby compass. For several seasons Toulouse wandered aimlessly in the rugby wilderness, where coaches simply copy what other teams have done.
Then Toulouse head coach Ugo Mola made two bold leadership decisions. Firstly, he created the long-term plan of returning “Les Rouge et Noir” to the rugby philosophy created by the genius of their founding coaches Pierre Villepreux, Jean-Claude Skrella and Guy Novès.
Dupont personified his Toulousain team’s impressiv …