That would, quite simply, be like letting the coach of an opposing baseball team select half of your starting line-up for the championship game.

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An under-strength Canada suffered a monumental 102-8 defeat by Australia A last month and their Rugby Canada select suffered a second-half collapse against Scotland last weekend.

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England's injury crisis forced them to select veteran centre Mike Catt at fly-half against South Africa, with a brief to share the duties with rugby league convert Andy Farrell, who was named as the goal-kicker.

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