In comments likely to raise a few eyebrows in New Zealand, a country which has suffered myriad pain at World Cups since last winning the tournament in 1987 on home soil, the former New Zealand cricketer said most of the 85,000 people expected to visit here during the tournament "don't give a toss" if the hosts win.
"I talk to New Zealand audiences all the time about this and half the audience shakes their heads and think I'm an idiot," Snedden told the Eden Magnet, a Fairfax Media-owned newspaper in New South Wales.
"But we haven't won the thing for 24 years, we know that, we've got a great chance again this year, we're in great form once again, expectations are high, [we are the] ranked No 1 team in the world.
"If we don't happen to win it then we'll get another chance to win it in 2015 and we'll get another chance to win it in 2019 and so on.
"We don't get another chance to host Rugby World Cup."
Snedden, who said the economic reality of hosting the event meant New Zealand could probably not afford to host the World Cup on its own again, added: "We've got to make the most of this hosting opportunity and for the 85,000 people coming here … they don't give a toss about how the All Blacks get on in this tournament; how they're going to judge this tournament is what's the welcome been like in New Zealand, what's it been like being in New Zealand for those average of 23 days or however long they're here."
