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Canada coach Kingsley Jones isn’t about to let his team rest on its laurels in the wake of a lopsided 65-19 win over Kenya to open the Rugby World Cup repechage tournament.

“It’s a good start but our challenge is humility now,” Jones said from Marseille, France. “We need to be humble and keep working hard … We need to be ready to go again because we face another challenge Saturday (against Germany) — a different type of challenge and a big challenge.”

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“When I talk about humility, there’s a lot to it,” Jones added. “It’s about buying into what a team’s doing. It’s about playing for the team not for themselves. It’s about the team being the star here — there’s no star in this team, we don’t want that. We want a team that’s the star.”

It’s also about keeping an eye on the prize. Jones believes his team may have underestimated Uruguay in the last qualifying round.

Millions of dollars are at stake at the four-team repechage. Rugby Canada has said missing out on the World Cup — for the first time ever — could hit its bottom line to the tune of $10 million with World Rugby funding going elsewhere.