Manaia Stewart

They hardly lost when he was around.

He was an exceptional player.

Him and Barky's great.

He looks like an action movie star.

Handsome.

Yeah, if Rambo was South African, it would be Victor Matfield.

Sorry, no, this is the John Kirwan one.

I don't mind it I kind of like where he's coming from I don't know if we've got the population here in New Zealand to do it

But say, for example, and I know this is what they were trying to do with Moana Pacifica.

If there were, like, four Super Rugby franchises in Auckland alone, then there would be local derbies between those clubs.

And you would feel more allegiance to your local team.

Like, for example, where I grew up down in South Canterbury, we're three hours away from Christchurch.

So, like, yes, I'm a Crusaders fan, but I didn't get to a lot of games because it's three hours away from where I'm from.

Now, if there was a team in Timaru, if Southland had a Super Rugby team,

You know what I mean?

You would have so much more allegiance to that and there's an inbuilt allegiance to that team straight off the rip.

Yeah, okay.

So it's an NPC system.

Basically, yeah.

Okay.