Dylan Cleaver calls on the four Air New Zealand Cup sides saved from the chop to justify the decision in The New Zealand Herald.
"This is the story of the mice that roared - now they have to start to think. Northland, Counties Manukau, Tasman and Manawatu, the four unions with their necks under the NZRU's guillotine, have staved off execution with a formidable campaign that involved lobbying and explicit legal threats.
"Unless they want to find themselves in the same position a little further down the track, they now have to do more than rail against the national body.
"They were out of touch, very out of touch," said outgoing Counties Manukau chairman Matthew Newman of the NZRU. It is a strange charge to label against an organisation that, no matter how good a punching bag they make, has just shown that they are prepared to put pragmatism ahead of pride. These sort of comments help no one. The time for cheap shots is over."
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