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Crowds need to be part of the action

CHRIS HEWETT

THE best part of 84,000 spectators congregated at “The G” for last weekend’s Bledisloe Cup contest in Melbourne, which was just about as good as it gets if you happen to be a rugby financier. For those of us who love sport for the contest rather than the balance sheet, the fun stopped when we realised the entire crowd could have been on the pitch and still not stopped the All Blacks from finding multiple routes to the Wallaby goalline.
We should have read it in the tealeaves, just as Allan Alaalatoa, the Australian captain, might have expected his pre-match stunt to backfire o...

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