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Australia legend claims Ireland & Lions scrum-half is ‘easily' better than France skipper Antoine Dupont

WILL GENIA claims that Ireland star Jamison Gibson-Park is the best number nine on the planet. The Australia legend was speaking ahead of the Advertisement 2 Australia legend Will Genia says Ireland's Jamison Gibson-Park is the best half-back in the world 2 Genia reckons Leinster star Jamison Gibson-Park is better than France skipper Antoine Dupont Genia, who earned 110-caps for his country his widely regarded as one of the greatest scrum-halves to have played the game was speaking on 'The for Love of Rugby' podcast. And he was speaking 37-year-old Genia insisted that the He said: "I think he's easily the best half-back in the world. Yeah, I do. Advertisement read more on rugby "Dupont is an athletic freak, and he's incredibly skilful - and there's never been anyone like him - my favourite half-backs are guys like yourself, Ben Smith, Fourie du Preez. "Guys with a real sense of finesse, and an ability to act as a playmaker as well - I'm not saying Dupont doesn't do that - not at all, but when I watch Gibson-Park, he reminds me of guys like yourself. "He's real smooth with how he plays the game; he's real decisive. He's got great vision, excellent skills. For me he's definitely the best half-back in the world." A Advertisement Most read in Rugby Union He added: "I'm gonna go with a 2-1 win for The Aussies. We're building nicely really nicely, we've a core group of players who are playing really well domestically. The Papua New Guinea-born number nine went on to add that he thinks Joe Schmidt's side are good enough to win the opening two-tests of the series. He concluded: "We're going to win the first two, and then you boys will win the last one. Ireland players included in Andy Farrell's Lions squad: Jamison Gibson-Park Garry Ringrose Bundee Aki James Lowe Mack Hansen Dan Sheehan Josh van der Flier Jack Conan Tadhg Beirne Tadhg Furlong Andrew Porter Hugo Keenan Ronan Kelleher Joe McCarthy James Ryan Advertisement