EDITOR’S LETTER
THE AUSTRALIAN, SOUTH AFRICAN, ARGENTINIAN AND JAPANESE TEAMS in Super Rugby will be wondering whether 2016 was an aberration. Was it some kind of perfect storm that saw the New Zealand teams dominate the competition the way they did? Four of the Kiwi teams made the playoffs and three made the semis. And to be honest, if the competition didn’t have this unfair and strange commitment to giving each of the respective conference winners a home quarterfinal, perhaps the last four teams would have been from New Zealand. And four teams in the playoffs was a fair representation. There’s no denying that the Chiefs, Hurricanes, Highlanders and Crusaders played consistently good rugby. Their individual skills were high across the board. All four teams – and the Blues by the end of the…