CHRIS HEWETT
THINKING ALLOWED

THERE is nothing especially funny about short-term memory loss, but it may just have an upside when it comes to rugby.
Anything that stops us fuming over the stomach-churning excesses of the so-called governing class, or mourning the sorry decline of the game in Wales, or wrestling with the broken relationship between the English Premiership and everyone else…well, you get the picture.
For those of us categorised as “baby boomers” or early “Generation Xers”, it also affords us the space to recall a time when Canada c...