The Springboks are great, but roll out the green and gold mat for the Wallabies in 2013.
Yes. It is possible. It is a goer. The Australians could, indeed should, play at the Forsyth Barr Stadium in 2013. The Springboks are coming next year and now we have built it, surely the Wallabies must come.
This is not a pie-in-the-sky dream. It is not like saying Queenstown and Methven can host the winter Olympics or seven trillion people watched the Winter Games.
This is reality. There are solid, reasoned arguments why a Bledisloe Cup match can be played in Dunedin. Well, they sound pretty good if you live in Castle St.
The Bledisloe Cup is now to be played over three tests every year. Next year, there will be one game in Auckland and then matches in Sydney and Brisbane.
The following year, two matches will be staged on this side of the ditch.
The city of sails is going to host one. Auckland is the biggest city with the biggest ground, so it will get one of the tests. Excuse the transport chaos and the bumbling local authorities.
But who gets the second one?
Well, how about down here?
Wellington really is the only other option.
Windy, whiny Wellington.
With its oval stadium, where spectators are miles away from the action, and where a southerly storm that not even Shackleton would survive always appears 10min before kick-off.
A city that cannot even come up with a decent sign. And haven't they got the Sevens already?
Down here in Dunedin is the bright, shiny new kid on the stadium block.
Sure, Forsyth Barr Stadium may not have enough seats for the category A tests, which apparently Bledisloe tests fit into, but who made up the rules for category A tests? They can be broken. They're about as relevant these days as a trespass notice in the Octagon.
Forsyth Barr Stadium supposedly has too few seats, but when it comes to money - and we are talking professional sport here, so dollars are all that matters - it can mix it with the big boys.
Its advantage is it has plenty of premium seating. The two biggest stands are at the side of the ground. They make up more than half the seats. Sure, they will be expensive, but they are great seats. Big revenue earners.
It is not always about sheer numbers. The most profitable restaurant in town is not always the one with the most tables.
The new stadium is not like dingy old Carisbrook with its terrace on one side and small stand on the other.
And if we are talking simply about bums on seats, then Wellington is not way out in front. Its capacity is about 5000 more than Forsyth Barr Stadium. Not a huge gap.
With Christchurch out of the equation for the next five years at least, Dunedin is the only stadium in the South Island that can host a big game.
After all, this is our national game. Not all the big games can be played in one city.
Plus Dunedin's atmosphere on test week is hard to beat. No-one does it better. Imagine the excitement of a week with the Wallabies in town.
Then let's not forget about what the atmosphere will be like inside the ground during the game.
The Wallabies have not been in Dunedin since 2001 - incidentally, the last day test in the city - and they won that game.
The city has waited long enough to taste revenge.
