Once you gain promotion to the Premiership of the ITM Cup from the Championship the grass becomes greener?
Right? Wrong, if you ask Hawke's Bay Magpies assistant coach Danny Lee.
With one more sleep before arm wrestling the Wellington Lions for the right to regain top-tier status in the country's semi-professional National Provincial Championship, Lee reckons the current two-tier competition isn't everything it's made out to be.
While not wanting to plunge head first into the "pretty political" pool, the former All Blacks halfback says it's time to revisit the template that smaller unions have been brainstorming with the New Zealand Rugby Union (NZRU).
"I know, for a fact, they've been debating it with New Zealand Rugby for a few years."