Prominent Otago swimming identities have voiced their approval of the Moller report on the future of New Zealand swimming.
Fifty key swimming people from Otago and Southland heard Chris Moller talk about his findings in Dunedin recently.
Graham Price, a former deputy chairman of Swimming New Zealand, said Moller wanted the organisation to "stick to its knitting".
"They should get back to being in charge of the competitive swimmer and leave the teaching of swimming to another group," Price said.
"The report recognises the important of the learn-to-swim aspect but it should not be their business."
JC Swim School director Jill Clarke said she was not franchised to Swimming New Zealand and would not be affected by the change.
She praised the report and looked forward to positive outcomes from the review.
Clarke was on the board of Swimming New Zealand for 10 years until she resigned six years ago.
The Moller report identified the problems faced by New Zealand swimming "accurately and sometimes brutally", Waves coach Andy Adair said.
"It certainly hasn't held back in terms of identifying the areas where problems have occurred."
The report called for the resignation of the chief executive of Swimming New Zealand and the appointment of a new board of six people - three elected and three appointed - and the reduction of the present 16 regions to four.
But the report said it should not be done from the top down.
"The regions should be looking after themselves.
"If they want to amalgamate and make fewer regions, they should do it themselves and decide who they want to amalgamate with," Price said.
Moller also wanted an improvement in the high-performance area, suggesting the Australian model, which has also been adopted by Great Britain, should be followed.
"The whole high performance area was identified as a problem.
"This included the coach development framework and pathways for coaches," Adair said.
"The report identified some serious rifts between some regions and Swimming New Zealand but it did not think that Swimming New Zealand was responsible for all the problems."
The decision to initiate the Moller Report was taken by Sport New Zealand.
It has commissioned five reports into swimming in the past 10 years, the last three being the Vanguard report, the Ineson report and the Moller report.
The frequency of reports has made Price and Adair sceptical about the outcome.
"There is good sense in the Moller report if it ever gets implemented," Price said.
"That is the big problem.
"They do all these reviews but they never implement them."
Adair said some regions were "furious about the proposals in the Vanguard report".
The Ineson report looked at the high-performance structure.
"It suggested the board was ineffective and incompetent and should go, and so should the chief executive and Jan Cameron," Adair said.
The board chairman and coaching director Jan Cameron resigned but the rest of the board and the chief executive survived.
The Ineson report was largely ignored and led to the Moller report.
"I've watched the process for a long time and I've heard people say that the existing set-up was good enough for Danyon Loader and it's got to be good enough for you," Adair said.
