Richard Loe fears that the rugby public in New Zealand do not quite understand the major dilemma facing the game in that part of the world, with the inability of the Sanzar partners to agree on a new Super 14 format. Read his thoughts in the New Zealand Herald.
"Whatever happens, the NZRU have to find a way to keep the South Africans. A competition involving island and/or Japanese teams doesn't do it for me and I don't think it will do it for fans either. If that's the case, you can only wonder how much TV will be prepared to pay for a competition of lesser interest.
"It's all very well for Steve Tew to say that rugby is the leading sport viewed on Sky. So it bloody should be. But the plain fact is that numbers watching on TV are shrinking - and you wonder what TV negotiator is going to pay more for a sport where fewer people are turning up to grounds and where audiences on the box are reducing."
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