Rugby Australia even got their chief executive from across the Ditch.

So is Canberra Stadium the perfect place for the latest piece of NZ intellectual property to be put in effect?

Super Rugby's Auckland Blues and the New Zealand Warriors, of NRL fame, are looking to hold a doubleheader next year.

Wanted to do it this year, not this weekend just gone, but the one before that in fact.

The Canberra Raiders and ACT Brumbies are being considered as an option the two Kiwi clubs are hoping will draw more than 30,000 fans to Eden Park in 2020.

Or Hamilton's even being considered as a venue.

Would it be a way to pack out Canberra Stadium? Or would it just lead to complete and utter car-parking carnage at the AIS?

I've got a feeling it might be the latter, but some of my colleagues were excited by the idea.

Given the respective interest in the two rugby codes, let's assume the Raiders would be the late game. Prime time. (I can hear the Channel Nine executives' collective groan.)

Which means the Brumbies are on beforehand.

So far this season the Brumbies have pulled an average home crowd of 9184, while the Raiders were averaging 12,308 (before they played Parramatta on Sunday night).

On average, that makes for a combined total of 21,492 coming through the Canberra Stadium gates.

With capacity about 25,000, it could even be a sell out if we take each team's biggest crowd so far - 26,143 (Brumbies 12,112, Raiders 12,308).

Would make for a cracking atmosphere. If everyone was in the ground for both games. But that's a big "if".

Is there much of a crossover between the two teams?

Given the historical class divide between the codes I'm not sure there would. Maybe 1000? You might get a novelty bump sparked by the occasion - Canberrans do love an event.

But what does that mean?

Thousands of people coming and going at the end of the first game.

Take the post-game, getting-home chaos and throw in the pre-game, trying-to-find-a-park chaos.

Literally hours of fun. Pull up a chair, grab some popcorn and watch the show. A soundtrack of blaring horns punctuated by the occasional bending of fenders.

The ACT government have no objection to it happening. (The doubleheader, not the fender benders.)

"That would be up to the clubs. If they were happy enough to put something on like that," ACT Sports Minister Yvette Berry said.

"I think that's been talked about within those groups. There is a lot of crossover within fans in the ACT - going to multiple games and different games.

"I wouldn't be opposed to that, but that would be something to work out with their game scheduling and peak bodies as well."

Brumbies coach Dan McKellar's a fan. Help reduce costs for both teams, grow the interest in both codes. 

He'd be there if he was still a fan, back before he became a Super Rugby coach. 

With both clubs currently in discussions with the government for new stadium deals, it would be the perfect time to brainstorm a clause.

It could certainly help cut costs for hiring Canberra Stadium for both teams. Economies of scale and all that.

That in turn would mean more cabbage for the Brumbies and Raiders to share around. Not something to be sneezed at.

A few of the players from both clubs are mates so there'd be a bit of support there as well.

"All those innovative ideas - commercially [it's great] and [would] introduce people to both games - it's tremendous," McKellar said.

"If I was a fan I would certainly be going. If it's something that [Brumbies chief executive Phil Thomson] and the board want to look at, I would certainly be supportive of it."

We don't need another hero, We don't need to know the way home. All we want is life beyond the Thunderdome.

That might've worked for Mad Max and Tina Turner all those years ago, but it ain't going to cut the mustard for Australian racing. 

Black Caviar came and went and now we're in the post-Winx epoch.

As jockey Hugh Bowman's blue silks roll around in the washing machine one last time the racing industry will be desperately hoping the next GHOAT - Greatest Horse Of All Time - comes along quick smart to fill the void.

Shiny new fandangled, mega-rich races like The Everest can only capture the public's imagination for so long in these days of microscopic attention spans.

There was some hope The Autumn Sun could be that horse, but he retired off to stud before Winx did so that plan's gone up in smoke.

NRL ROUND SIX

Sunday: Canberra Raiders v Brisbane Broncos at Canberra Stadium, 4pm.

SUPER RUGBY ROUND 10

Saturday: ACT Brumbies v Cape Town Stormers at Newlands, 11.05pm.