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Rugby Canada, whose flagship men’s 15s team has been moving backwards in recent times, shook up its structure Monday.

The governing body fired its top rugby man in Jim Dixon, its general manager of rugby operations and performance.

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For the last two and a half years, Dixon had been the man ordering reviews into teams that had underperformed. On Monday, Rugby Canada delivered its verdict on Dixon although CEO Allen Vansen chose to see it in a different light.

“This was not a decision made out of performance of any of our teams,” Vansen said in an interview. “We know that we have made some good inroads on all those top programs. We’ve got a lot of work to do on our men’s 15s program and that work continues.

“And we still have a lot of work to do on all those other programs. We can not afford to be complacent.”

The Canadian men had been at a record low of No. 24 in the rankings but moved up one notch this week to No. 23 despite losing 54-22 to No. 12 Georgia in Tbilisi on the weekend.