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If you’re looking for two examples of exactly what Rugby Canada coach Kingsley Jones was hoping to eliminate from Canada’s games, look no further than the Rugby World Cup qualifying first leg loss last weekend at B.C. Place Stadium.

Canada showed “(Defensive) frailty a little bit at times,” Jones said of Saturday’s 38-29 loss.

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Two tries in particular tell the story here — and some alternate-universe thinking might tell you that if these two don’t happen, well Canada would be feeling a lot better about life. And they also tell you that, maybe, just maybe, the situation isn’t so dire as it might look at first glance.

Fix these very fixable problems — more than anything it’s about making better tackles — and hey, sure, Canada could win by 10 points on Saturday in Montevideo (TSN1, noon PT).

That’s the optimist’s take; let’s look at what happened last Saturday.

First there’s the game’s opening try, scored by Uruguay scored less than a minute into the game.