Wynne Gray, writing in The New Zealand Herald, believes that the changes to New Zealand's national competition are based on the wrong criteria.
"The New Zealand Rugby Union will need to add a mathematician to their staff if they go through with plans to restructure the NPC.
"Probably a QC as well for the legal challenges but certainly some boffin, skilled in numerical calculations, to unravel all the extra criteria in deciding which four teams from this season will get the chop.
"In announcing the back to the future series from next year, chief executive Steve Tew admitted it would not be a simple case of the bottom quartet getting the flick, leaving the leading 10 teams to play in the renamed Premier division. No siree.
"Other issues would come into play to sort out a 10-team top division, a six-team division one and a 10-team Heartland competition."
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