Former chief executive of the New Zealand Rugby Football Union and the Wales Rugby Football Union David Moffett spoke at a lunch in Dunedin yesterday.
He was speaking at an Otago Medical Research Foundation Club Otago lunch. He will get his first look at Forsyth Barr Stadium when the Crusaders take on the Highlanders tonight.
Moffett (70) said he could not understand why Super Rugby invited in teams from places such as Japan and Argentina.
"That's not our job. We have enough to worry about. This is the job for World Rugby," he said.
"Super Rugby needs to have a competition of 12 teams, seven from New Zealand and five from Australia. Just leave South Africa out of it."
He said New Zealand always seemed to be worrying about another country but it needed to look after its own affairs.
Many of the "fish heads" simply wanted to get to travel to these new places and it had little to do with spreading the game.
Australia probably only had the playing depth for one team.
Moffett said these teams would play home and away and that would be simple to understand.
He said as the broadcasting rights came up for renewal, there were predictions major players would come on board and look to take the rights from the current holders.
But the new players wanted a "fair dinkum" competition and Super Rugby as it stood at the moment was far from that.
Television wanted content but the balance had not been right between quantity and quality.
No-one was missing the two South African sides - the Kings and the Cheetahs - which had gone up to play in the northern hemisphere.
Moffett was involved in the Wales union when Steve Hansen was employed as the Welsh coach.
He said Hansen was a superb man manager and he had grown into the role as the All Blacks coach.
As for who would follow Hansen, Moffett said he felt there was only one man suitable for the job - Ireland coach Joe Schmidt. Schmidt had moulded the Irish side into a champion outfit which was up to win its third ever Grand Slam this weekend.
He felt Schmidt had the technical expertise to do the job and had done some marvellous work with Ireland.
Warren Gatland was not the man for the job, he believed.
Gatland had a 50% win record and had a poor record against countries from the southern hemisphere.
He said the world was constantly changing and so was rugby. He questioned whether rugby had the administrators with the ability to cope with these changes.
