Frankly, culling the teams from Australia and South Africa - never mind the mongrel Sunwolves - isn't going to fix the problems. It's only an ephemeral ploy to buy time, almost in the mould of real estate agents whipping up an illusionary state of frenzy on the ideal time to buy or sell a property during an economic slump.
The department of detachment will advocate the entangling of Super Rugby to enable Kiwi fans to enjoy their own "domestic" competition - a return to the pure-bred National Franchise Championship (NFC) but just don't mention the acronym NPC.
In some respects, that could add spice to an equally predictable international platform where the All Blacks are becoming perennial favourites.
With the three nations retiring to the confinements of their borders, it won't be that easy to gauge their strengths and weaknesses as they redevelop in the four-year World Cup cycle with the odd test matches.
With the British and Irish Lions dropping like flies as the tour approaches, more mismatches are likely with England left as the great white hope.
Rugby's illegitimate child, the IRB Sevens Series, is suffering the same fate.
Relocating the event from the Cake Tin to the Tron is another powder puff job.
One year, maybe two or three, before the novelty wears off like it did for the Super Nines in Auckland, which may be a goner now promoters Duco have ended their lovey-dovey phase of a monetary matrimony.
The mediocrity of the All Blacks Sevens - posting a winless series to create unwanted history and leaving management with red faces after eight players were on the field in the playoffs - isn't so much a reflection of Sir Gordon Tietjens' absence as it is the inevitable outcome of NZRU favouring its biological son over the illegitimate one.
The NRL has every reason to question the presence of the calamitous New Zealand Warriors in an Australian franchise-heavy rugby league competition.
The sad reality is if cut loose the Kiwi franchise has no other avenue, although it wouldn't surprise me if the Super League in England threw them a lifeline if the NRL "unfriends" them like the Aussie Government has done with Kiwi residents in the continent with residency and tertiary education.
But the NRL knows better. Akin to New Zealand Prime Minister Bill English, it knows growing rugby league will take precedence over Trumpernister types calling for severing of ties with foreigners.
The A-League soccer fans and franchises in Australia are questioning whether the Wellington Phoenix deserve to be in their elite competition.
If the Aussie parent body decides to cut them loose then it'll be detrimental to the code here but it's the Ockers' competition and they should call the shots.
The Phoenix, like the All Whites and other Kiwi age-group national teams, can't sit on their laurels in the belief that Australia owes them anything.
Sure, the bigger Utopian picture would have Australia, New Zealand and other Pacific Island nations creating a soccer stronghold that would lure talent from overseas to jostle for a couple of berths in each team but the reality is the social welfare attitude is killing everyone as the Aussies woo Asians.
Just look at the abysmal effort of the NZ U20 men in South Korea on Monday night against Vietnam.
Do they deserve to be there with their snazzy hairdos and tattoos?
New kids on the block Vietnam made them look like schoolboys and you can't play the "we're punching above our weight" crap here.
Non-Kiwi rugby franchises, All Blacks Sevens, Warriors and Phoenix are woeful and have to earn the right to be part of an elite family.
Otherwise, go back home to the drawing board.
