RUGBY MATTERSBRENDAN GALLAGHER

ENGLAND caps should never be given away goes the mantra, but it’s a philosophical approach that often seems on dodgy ground. Take yesterday’s capped game against a very young and inexperiencedCanada which will have some greybeards on both sides of the North Atlantic chuntering away.Turn the clock back to May 29, 1993 when an England XV played Canada at Burnaby Lake in a non-capped game. I won’t list the England team in full but it included Martin Johnson, Neil Back, John Hall, Steve Ojomoh, Victor Ubogu, Graham Rowntree, Chris Oti a...