Larry Williams Drive

I went to the football at Eden Park on Friday night. It was great, an almost full stadium and probably -without a lie- the loudest roars from a crowd that I’ve ever heard. All of the tech was there, they had a drone above the grounds- and everyone who was anyone was there.  Government ministers, political figures, national sports bosses, small business owners, former national footballers, it was the place to be on Friday night. And the thing that occurred to me was that it could’ve been a men’s game- that’s how good the quality of everything was. And isn’t that the crucial point? The quality you get with women’s sport is different. If you want to watch a women’s Super Rugby game, you have to haul ass to Levin to watch an afternoon game in your gummies, like you're watching schoolboy rugby. Or you tune in to some grainy coverage that looks like something out of 1990s rugby coverage. But this tournament had good stadia, good kick off times, good commentators and good camera operators.  I had exactly the same th