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<blockquote data-quote="Bruce_ma gooshvili" data-source="post: 1066823" data-attributes="member: 74121"><p>I am a bit of a lone voice on this, but I think the Canadian decline is a little exaggerated, in the EOYTs they only lost away from home by 3 points to the other surging Tier2 side Portugal and defeated Belgium 24-0 in Belgium, despite playing with 14 men for almost the whole match. Plus Canada were pretty close to the US in their qualifying double header. With a pro side in the MLR if they can improve the decision making of the union they could actually start to head in the right direction. </p><p></p><p>I just think Chile (and Uruguay) are making huge strides and have shuffled Canada down the pecking order in the Americas. Chile have excellent physical specimens in their pack and a very good fullback/flyhalf pairing, although both prefer playing fullback. Once their flyhalf has played more than 5 games in the position they might improve further. They've also been experimenting (unsuccessfully) with a back-rower on the wing so their coach deserves massive credit for these sort of results while tinkering with such fundamental parts of the team.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Bruce_ma gooshvili, post: 1066823, member: 74121"] I am a bit of a lone voice on this, but I think the Canadian decline is a little exaggerated, in the EOYTs they only lost away from home by 3 points to the other surging Tier2 side Portugal and defeated Belgium 24-0 in Belgium, despite playing with 14 men for almost the whole match. Plus Canada were pretty close to the US in their qualifying double header. With a pro side in the MLR if they can improve the decision making of the union they could actually start to head in the right direction. I just think Chile (and Uruguay) are making huge strides and have shuffled Canada down the pecking order in the Americas. Chile have excellent physical specimens in their pack and a very good fullback/flyhalf pairing, although both prefer playing fullback. Once their flyhalf has played more than 5 games in the position they might improve further. They've also been experimenting (unsuccessfully) with a back-rower on the wing so their coach deserves massive credit for these sort of results while tinkering with such fundamental parts of the team. [/QUOTE]
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