Less than 6,000 people at Mt Smart Stadium last Saturday afternoon for the match between Wellington Phoenix and Western Sydney Wanderers doesn’t bode well for Auckland’s case to join the A-League. Truth is, of all the ‘bidders’ who have signalled their interest, this one is at best luke-warm. Pity, that. New Zealand’s biggest city is also the biggest market the competition has left to conquer, but it needs much more than simple metrics. It needs imagination.
