All Blacks great Jeff Wilson says Saturday's quarter-final between Highlanders and Crusaders should have been postponed a day.
The Crusaders defeated the Highlanders in shocking conditions 17-0 after the men from the deep south almost failed to get into Christchurch to play the game.
The Highlanders had been scheduled to fly on Friday, but their flight was cancelled due to the South Island storm and the team was forced to delay their journey until Saturday, eventually landing just seven hours before kickoff.
Wilson, who played 72 games for the Highlanders, told the Radio Sport Breakfast that the quarter-final should have been delayed.
"We should never have played. We should have missed another flight and turned up on Sunday or turned up late Saturday and played on a beautiful Sunday afternoon in Christchurch," Wilson told the Radio Sport Breakfast.