Tauranga City Councillors are under increasing pressure to create a Fan Base for the Rugby World Cup.
What is wrong with these guys? They had four years to get something into place. We are the fifth largest city in the country. You have little townships dotted up and down the country doing more than us.
I am embarrassed when tourists come into my restaurant asking where the Fan Base is.
Thankfully we have people like Amy Porter and Melanie Cottingham from Real Fest New Zealand, but on their shoestring budget, with NO financial backing from Council, the best they can do is one weekend a month during the Rugby World Cup. What did City Hall do, ‘they brought some flags'. This is a rugby mad country hosting the Rugby World Cup.
Come on Mayor and Councillors! There is still time to do something. Just pretend it's election year.

John Harvey, Tauranga.