RUGBY MATTERS
A weekly look at the game’s other talking points
BRENDAN GALLAGHER

Canada’s failure to qualify for the World Cup Finals for the first time, indeed their inability to even reach the repechage process, may have shocked many but it’s been coming for a long time now. The demise of Canadian rugby has been a car crash in slow motion and it’s been painful to witness because there are generations of us this side of the pond who have been lucky enough to tour that great country. In compiling the School of the Week series for this paper I have yet to en...