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If you’ve spent any time living in Auckland then you can’t help but look at the debate in Christchurch regarding the city’s proposed new stadium with some trepidation.

To Canterbury’s sports lovers who just want the bloody thing built: we feel your pain but make sure you get it right as it is very difficult to undo bad decisions.

It’s been 11 years since the devastating earthquake rendered the old Lancaster Park useless. It was an ordinary duel-purpose ground in an unprepossessing part of town, totally unsuitable for cricket and poorly shaped for rugby (sound familiar).

Post 2011, cricket used the opportunity to split from rugby and, not without controversy, carved out a corner of beautiful Hagley Oval for their own. Rugby, however, still has to make do with the old Addington Showgrounds, a stadium that looks like it has been made out of Meccano and is to modern stadia what a Vauxhall Chevette is to Formula One.