Canada was placed in a pool with South Africa, Scotland and Japan at Monday's draw for the Rugby World Cup Sevens 2009 in Dubai, United Arab Emirates.

The Springboks currently lead the International Rugby Board Sevens standings after winning the first two rounds of the 2008-09 season - in Dubai and George, South Africa. Still Doug Tate, the Canadian team's technical director, was happy with his Pool C placement for the 24-country tournament March 5-7 in Dubai.

"That's a good draw actually," he said from Vancouver Island. "South Africa's playing very well right now. They're in probably the top three but we tend to do not bad against South Africa. We had some good games (against them) last year. We lost to them in the last minute of the game. We've beat Scotland in the past - and Japan.
"As far as the draw goes, that's not too bad."

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