Former All Black, Andrew Mehrtens, has called for the Super Rugby competition to include Tonga, Fiji and Samoa. He ridiculed the current Super Rugby format, calling it "Stupid", and stated that South African and Argentine teams should be dropped from the format.

Mehrtens made the comments on Fox Sports [2] following a meeting between Super Rugby bosses and partners over the weekend. He said "I think the competition is stupid at the moment," 

"There's no way, in 10 years' time, that we're going to be looking at a competition that covers three massively distinct time zones."

"Our best thing is to go just within this time zone here. It makes it a lot more logistically easy to manage for the teams and players."

"Asia and Australia and New Zealand and the Islands is where the future of this competition lies for us. The sooner we can get there the quicker we can develop it and the better."