ENGLAND Saxons head coach Jon Callard sent out a simple but effective message to his players ahead of today's 41-11 victory over Canada: "Don't end up on the cutting room floor."

The Saxons bounced back from their opening Barclays Churchill Cup defeat to Scotland with six tries and a dominant performance over the Canadians to book a place in next week's plate final against Ireland 'A'.

Delon Armitage scored twice while tries from Richard Haughton, Worcester's Kai Hortsmann, Chris Bell and Ben Woods plus 11 points from Dave Walder completed the rout.

Open-side flanker David Seymour was again in impressive form, while Walder controlled the game from fly-half with more poise and composure than he did last week.

Luke Narraway, the Worces-ter-born Gloucester flanker, also made an immediate impression only five days after arriving in Canada from Sevens duty.

Callard said: "Before the game we told them you could end up on the cutting room floor. You could have one of those games that would be put in one box or another.

"The players have come out and said 'I want to be pushed forward' and if I can't be I want somebody else to be pushed forward.

"It was a good Test match because it was feisty and it had everything in it.

"Last week we were all rusty because of preparation time and we came off second best. This week I am pleased because all the preparation has gone well and we know a little bit more about the players.

"There is a frustration that we bombed quite a few chances but there was some nice stuff too. The introduction of Narraway and Haughton (after arriving from England Sevens on Monday) was great because it shows the system of development thr-ough the Sevens and the Saxons.

"It's a nice stepping stone."

England missed out on the chance to defend their Churchill Cup title after losing to Scotland last week.

Sixways star Horstmann said: "There were a lot of things we needed to work on after the Scotland game and although there are still areas to be looked at we started to play a bit of rugby.

"It was frustrating at times because we did create some opportunities that we didn't capitalise on but it was definitely a step up from last week so we are pretty chuffed with that.

"We definitely needed a win to put this tour back on track.

"We have got an incredible backline with a huge amount of pace which we can exploit so if we can keep hold of the ball and finish off chances when we get them and be a bit more clinical then things will start happening."