Dupuy wants to finish on a high

NO-ONE would have taken too much notice of a certain Julien Dupuy going through the pre-match ritual of passing and kicking drills with Biarritz’s Dimitri Yachvili before the 2006 Heineken Cup final.

The replacement scrum-half was just a footnote on a day Munster captured all the headlines; one of two unused Biarritz replacements on an unforgettable day in Cardiff , but now his is the name on everyone’s lips ahead of tomorrow’s Heineken Cup showdown.

He spent seven seasons at the Basque club, playing second fiddle to the mercurial Yachvili after breaking into the senior squad, picking up two Top 14 titles (2005 & 2006) in the south-west of France.