After forcing the New Zealand Rugby Union into a re-think, now is the time for the unions have to put their minds to matters based more on fact than conjecture, so writes Dylan Cleaver 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."