"The reason that sport is played is for winners, and there's always winners and losers.
"If there were no winners you would have a sissy country and we're going sissy enough now," Kingsley-Jones rightly points out. "I don't think we should make it any more sissy."
Before you know it, the rugby's-a-ball-pass-it-on philosophy will enter the school prospectus and infiltrate every other code to pave the pathway to national ordinariness.
The concept of "all kids playing all the time" is great but there's a time and place for that.
May the good Lord forbid first XV teams for harbouring dreams of clinching a major title with their elite.
Can you imagine how HBS Bank Hawks coach Tab Baldwin would react to suggestions of starting a game against Otago Nuggets tomorrow with his bench boys?
With the Hawks' run this season that may not be such a bad idea but a pragmatic Baldwin isn't shy to inject his youth when the coast is clear.
Ah, but then who cares about winning?
I can't imagine NZRU wallahs serving up any namby-pamby nonsense about giving everyone a tickle had the All Blacks stumbled at the final hurdle in the World Cup in 2011.
If anything, amid howls of protest, the law of the jungle would have prevailed with cries of selecting Lomu and Julian Savea-hybrid types to do a man's job (obviously a plausible reason why few parents allow their precious darlings to play rugby these days).
For what it's worth, the feel-good drive will be do-able in not just rugby but every code in schools if development is the anthem.
Perhaps the other benefit that could stem from it is stopping bullies from marginalising talent on grounds of "attitude" problems.
Every so often you'll find clip-board toting types who have an uncanny ability to drill the flair out of talent so as to ensure the tall poppies don't unsettle the communal constitution.
Their idea of acceptable attitude is dumbing the squad down to team bonding games of eating dry wheat biscuits and cold porridge before washing it down with fizzy drinks.
Benching players or denying them first-team selection can become a personal vendetta so the NZRU proposal can do wonders there.
Pushing such principles to clubs will be equally counterproductive.
At a social competitive grade, it's great to give everyone a go because they all pay subscription fees, although a core group of players can form the nucleus of a side to ensure the team retains a level of cohesiveness and strength.
Changing players wholesale for the sake of gifting game-time can inevitably kill the enjoyment factor.
The threat of good players leaving is ever present but there's also a risk the starting core can become complacent to jealously guard their positions, especially if others start nipping at their heels.
For those who demand - through some misguided notion of how they are good enough to play full minutes all the time - they should start all the time, there's always the competitive level at clubs.
Arguably those who fancy themselves as future All Blacks, All Whites or Silver Ferns should go straight to the competitive grades.
As Central Districts cricket administrator Scott Briasco often says, if you're good enough then you're old enough - problem solved.
Dumbing down sport, whether it's rugby, soccer, cricket or netball, isn't the way to go about it.
For those who want to make it into the group photos of the school year books, the lower grades should do the trick.
That is the reason why we have awards for high achievers, whether it's academic, cultural or sport regardless of how flawed the criteria may be to decide who are the deserving recipients.
A justified sense of public acknowledgement prevails because there's no escaping the fact that some people have and always will thrive in some areas better than others.
As cruel as it sounds, some youngsters' desire to play doesn't always match their inherent or acquired skills.
I remember coaching a group of primary school children for several years in Hastings, persisting with them because I realised then and still do today that sport indirectly teaches you life skills, too.
I looked after some of the youngsters for about five years but on the final year I had no choice but to regrettably tell their parents that their offspring just didn't have the leg-eye co-ordination to play soccer.
As it turned out, those kids went away learning a key life skill - not every sport is there for the taking for everyone.
