Auckland Mayor Len Brown is promising to seek alternative venues to "Party Central" to screen next weekend's league grand final between the Warriors and Manly.
That is because of a contractual ban on rival sporting codes being catered for at the official Rugby World Cup fan zones of Queens and Captain Cook Wharves.
Thousands of fans who watched the All Blacks beat France on big screens there on Saturday night abandoned the wharves later to find somewhere else to watch the Warriors overwhelm the Melbourne Storm in their preliminary final clash.
Last night, Warriors ambassador Sir Peter Leitch said he backed the cup "110 per cent" - but organisers needed to remember who had footed the lion's share of the bill for the rugby venues.
"Those venues have been built with taxpayer money, not Rugby World Cup money. If they want to put a block on it then, mate, they should pack their bags and toys and get out of this country and go to Russia and have their World Cup."