What to do about Mr Tew?

When all of this started back in May – the latest review of the National Provincial Championship – didn’t Steve Tew say there was a full agreement about the need to reduce the number of teams to 10?
Wasn’t there the intimation it was a unanimous decision?
If that’s the case, then he’s a bare-faced liar. As we’ve heard in recent weeks, a number of unions did not go belly-up in the face of what amounts to some serious bullying by Tew and his cronies. If the Counties CEO is to be believed, unions were asked to buy into a clause which would have prevented them from questioning the final decision or launching a challenge to that outcome.
For Jock Hobbs to come out and say Tew’s statements merely reflected what the unions had agreed to or what the NZRU Board had asked him to portray is either a cover up – or he’s still suffering from the head knocks which ended his playing days.
Tew is a survivor, of that there is no doubt. Where others would have sunk, he carries no aroma at all from a failed 2003 co-hosting debacle where his arrogance was beyond belief , several aborted revamps of the NPC, a raping of the All Black brand by introducing cash-driven offshore tests while purporting to favour player welfare … and the list goes on.
The scariest thing about this latest fiasco is Tew and company never worked through how a six-team second tier would work, and never foresaw the influence the Rugby Players’ Association would have. Blind and dumb in equal proportions. Well, maybe not so dumb – he’s still receiving his rumoured to be very high six-figure salary.
They don’t call him ‘Teflon Steve’ without reason.