If it's true that behind every good man there is a good woman, then behind every good sports team, there must be a good fan base.

Last year, you could have said 'No way, what about the Crusaders! They're a good team and get shit all fans' and I would have agreed with you. In fact, they probably still don't get as many fans as they should. But the Canterbury Rugby Union and Crusaders coach Todd Blackadder have identified this problem and are taking steps to resolve it. Lowering season ticket prices was the first step, and allowing fans onto the field was the second.

But other unions appear to be reluctant to adopt the 'bold' move. In this Stuff article, Westpac Stadium chief executive David Gray had this to say about pitch invasions;

"Once you start a culture of people going on to the pitch, you start to lose control of when that happens," he said.

"I just wonder if they've thought it through properly. You don't have to go far to see incidents of spectators attacking players. It happened in an ODI during the Australia-Pakistan series.

I say bullshit on both parts. First off, you have a PA system and security guards. If you broadcast over the PA 'xxx request you do not take to the field following this match' and combine that with the thuggish Red Badge staff, you'll be able to control it fine. Secondly, spectators already attack players. Except in New Zealand, it seems. Remember these two?

So I'd put forward that an act of violence against players can occur in any circumstance. Besides, does Cricket Australia allow fans to storm the pitch? If not, how is this even relevant to the current argument?

And then Gray suggested that protecting the turf was another reason working against us. Fair enough. Here's the quote as it was represented in that same article.

"Most other [stadiums] do probably 20 events. You only have to look at the three consecutive weekends of double-headers and another two coming up. We have to protect our grass.

"Most other stadiums after the rugby season don't have anything through to January, whereas we carry on right through, so if you lose a bit of grass the recovery is quite difficult."

Ok. Sure. Then explain how you let motorbikes romp around on the infield 2 weeks before the first Hurricanes match of the 2009 season? Or a giant stage and a tonne of people on the pitch a week before the Sevens... Where you let a whole bunch of dancers also on the pitch. Not to mention the Neil Diamond concert held in the middle of the Super 14 season, which placed punters on the field in seats and had a stage which took up the southern third of the stadium, and left the grass brown afterwards? Luckily you had two weeks to replace it with the reserve sod lumped out the back.

All we are asking for is a little bit of a concession to allow us to feel more emotionally invested in the team. The Caketin has already led to the severing of relationships with fans in Palmerston North and Napier, and with crowd numbers slowly but surely starting a trend of decline, surely anything helps. You'll allow 60,000 people [admittedly it is unclear how many of these were on the infield] to attend two concerts in a three day period, with a week turnaround before the Sevens, but you won't let at the very most a hundred people on the field after a game? Did you not see the awesome crowd at the end of the Lions v Otago Air NZ Cup match in 2008? Because unless we win the ruddy thing, that's probably the size you will expect.

If you feel as strongly about the issue as I do, I recommend you keep up with the Gen Ys and join the Facebook group.

Remi Galliard is a semi-well-known French prankster, who also has some talent with a football. I know some people will like the second one because it also features a full-scale pitch invasion.