Highlanders scrum-half Jimmy Cowan reflects on defeat against the Hurricanes
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Inga Tuigamala believes that we have reached a point where New Zealand doesn't actually have sufficient talent to warrant five truly competitive Super 14 teams. Read his thoughts in the New Zealand Herald.
"Just as the Super competition is supposed to be on the rise with a new team in Australia, New Zealand's form has plummeted in the other direction.
"In other words, do we still need the Highlanders? I doubt that the New Zealand Rugby Union would ever contemplate reducing the number of our Super teams - it's just not the done thing of course.
"And we will all hope that a brilliant turnaround can be engineered, and quickly. But I make this point to illustrate how bad things have got.
"There is a very real chance that the semfinals will not include any New Zealand teams this season, and not one of our teams is playing close to the standards we expect. I'm actually shocked at how bad the situation is."
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