John Day

Look, I think in terms of the Warriors, the crowds that the Warriors get and in terms of their social media interaction is Champions League level.

It's way up there.

But when you look at

clubs, the amount of kids playing, the amount of kids teams playing, the amount of club players playing, the schoolboy level rugby, and you add all of that together, then you add the All Blacks coming to town and playing test matches, plus super rugby and everything else.

Can you really honestly say that Auckland has lost rugby now and league has taken over?

I would argue that AFC and football, in terms of the amount of kids are playing in clubs, would probably be on a par with any other participation in terms of sport at the moment, wouldn't it?

Groundball football.

That's what we're talking about.

They do call me sir several times.

And you say that you can smell the excellence when you walk in and they look at you and they think, what a weirdo.

I wonder what he's talking about, smelling excellence.

What's he talking about?

I doubt I've... But when was it any different, John?

I grew up... I'm trying to...

It was a cool thing on TV, rugby league.

That was Winfield Cup days.

I can't ever remember a time when generations of New Zealand kids wore even the provincial jerseys.

I just, I can't, look, all black jerseys, sure, I can, you know.

Yeah, true, actually.

I just don't know, even growing up in Wellington, as much as we loved our team, that people wore rugby jerseys around.