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Dream killers: Lucas Rumball scores for Canada as they beat Germany in the World Cup qualifying repechage

WHEN it comes to the development of international Rugby Union it’s not so much a matter of, “the more things change, the more they remain the same” as it is of a sport in lockdown.
It is 32 years since the first World Cup in 1987, and yet in six months’ time when the 2019 World Cup kicks off in Japan it will be all the usual suspects in the knock-out stages, with virtually no chance of a second tier nation becomin...