Julien Dupuy

Julien Dupuy
Julien Dupuy, June 2009
Date of birth (1983-12-19) 19 December 1983 (age 40)
Place of birthPérigueux, France
Height5 ft 10 in (1.78 m)
Weight12 st 4 lb (78 kg)
Rugby union career
Position(s) Scrum-half
Senior career
Years Team Apps (Points)
2002–2008
2008–2009
2009–2017
Biarritz
Leicester
Stade Français
98
31
180
(439)
(129)
(773)
International career
Years Team Apps (Points)
2009–2012 France 8 (38)

Julien Dupuy (born 19 December 1983) is a former rugby union player for Stade Français in the Top 14. He is now skills and attack coach for RC Toulonnais.

Julien Dupuy played as a Scrum-half.

Julien Dupuy played for Biarritz and Toulouse in the French Top 14 for 7 seasons before joining Leicester Tigers in 2008.[1] At the end of his first season at Leicester he helped them win the 2009 Premiership final, scoring a conversion and a penalty.[2] It was confirmed in April 2009 that he would remain at Leicester for the 2009-10 Guinness Premiership season,[3] but in June 2009, Leicester coach Richard Cockerill resigned himself to losing Dupuy to Stade Français. He was only halfway through a two-year deal but has reportedly been unsettled at Leicester because his French girlfriend was homesick.[4] After the end of the season, he left Leicester for Stade Français, where his 2009-10 Top 14 season was ended early by a 24-week ban for contact with the eye or eye area of Stephen Ferris during Stade's loss to Ulster in the 2009-10 Heineken Cup.[5] The ban was reduced to 23 weeks on appeal.[6]

  1. ^ "Tigers swoop for scrum-half Dupuy". BBC Sport. 16 July 2008. Retrieved 10 June 2009.
  2. ^ "Leicester 10-9 London Irish". BBC. 16 May 2009. Retrieved 9 February 2020.
  3. ^ "Cockerill confirms Dupuy to stay". BBC Sport. 11 April 2009. Retrieved 10 June 2009.
  4. ^ "Leicester prepared for Dupuy exit". BBC Sport. 10 June 2009. Retrieved 10 June 2009.
  5. ^ http://www.ercrugby.com/eng/5019_14988.php [dead link]
  6. ^ "Julien Dupuy's gouging ban shortened by one week". BBC Sport. 13 January 2010. Retrieved 13 January 2010.