Owners of a stretch hummer displaying the silver fern shows where their support lies.

Tongan fans show their support for tonight's opener against the All Blacks.

Auckland's Viaduct is swarmed with crowds as 600 Maori warriors gear up to take to the water in their waka.

All Blacks supporters show where their loyalty lies ahead of tonight's clash against Tonga.

French fans get into the swing of things at Queen's Wharf.

Tongan fan David Lisiate has painted his Burnley Terrace house near Eden Park to show his support.

A massive flash-mob haka wows the crowd at Auckland's waterfront in the opening week of the Rugby World Cup in September.

Tonga fans in Auckland display their dedication to their team during the Rugby World Cup tournament.

A man with a loudspeaker tries to address the crowd gathering in front of Queen's Wharf.

Thousands of fans celebrate at the Viaduct, on the opening day of the Rugby World Cup.

Maori warriors make their way to the waka.

Thousands of fans celebrate at the Viaduct, on the opening day of the Rugby World Cup.

Thousands of fans celebrate at the Viaduct, on the opening day of the Rugby World Cup.

Rugby fans make their way to the stadium.

Thousands of fans packed into Queen's Wharf for the Rugby World Cup opening last week Friday.

Rugby World Cup Minister Murray McCully has criticised Auckland transport and event planners for spoiling "what was otherwise a spectacularly successful World Cup opening night".

Authorities are reviewing the city's transport system after delays saw some fans miss out on last night's celebrations.

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Problems with trains included a breakdown near Newmarket, which meant some people were delayed for more than an hour and missed kick off at Eden Park, while others were too late for the events in the central city.

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Auckland Transport has asked for an urgent review of the operational performance of the rail network from the train operator Veolia.

McCully said two areas "require immediate attention" to ensure no repeat of Saturday's lapses for the next six weeks of the world cup.

"Auckland's public transport system failed to deliver to the required standard. In spite of reasonably successful trial events, there is no escaping the fact that last night's performance was short of the standard required. Urgent steps will now need to be taken to ensure that these matters are rectified before the next large Eden Park match next weekend," he said.

Adrian Austin Crowds at the Britomart complex on Friday night.

He also criticised the fact two out of the six big screens set up in downtown Auckland failed to work.

"While Queens Wharf operations were highly successful, event arrangements for those in the Quay St area simply did not meet the needs of the extremely large crowd that gathered. While such large gatherings will occur infrequently, it is important that the structural problems evident in this area are addressed quickly," McCully said.

He today met with officials to debrief last night's operations.

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Police received praise for their work.

"Having discussed the situation with police leadership I am pleased to hear their report of very good behaviour and a very positive experience for the vast majority of members of the public. They put the number of incidents in central Auckland in the context of normally busy Friday and Saturday nights in the city," said McCully.

Train operator Veolia said the biggest problem last night was passengers pressing emergency stop buttons.

''It was pressed to the extent where the train could not move," said managing director Graham Sibery.

"We then had to bring another train out and detrain the passengers from that train. The consequence of that was then three trains were stuck behind that, unable to get through to Eden Park at a critical time.''

Sixty thousand people were transported by trains yesterday, four times the amount usually travelling on a Friday. Veolia had planned for 30,000.

''We planned for twice as many people, in fact we had four times as many people.

''The number of people coming throughout the day was such that we were packed on trains from midday onwards, even earlier, and it was just extremely busy day with unprecedented numbers.''

Auckland mayor Len Brown said the cause of the safety buttons being pushed was varied from medical concerns to people feeling constrained in carriages.

Sibery said there were other problems including people on tracks, on the outside of trains and people letting off fire extinguishers on the trains.

''In those situations, safety comes first, it has to. We also had medical situations where we had to stop the train at the station, get an ambulance for someone who has come unwell.''

The pushing of safety buttons is not a new problem, and caused problems for trains travelling to the U2 concert in November last year. Up to five trains were left standing near the Ellerslie station for 20 minutes after a passenger on one repeatedly pushed the emergency stop button.

Sibery said the problem was anticipated and trains going to Eden Park had a fitting that enabled drivers to know which carriage the button was being pressed in.

''But that doesn't stop people pressing it again and again.

''We will have to look at what more we can do about this frankly, its difficult to modify the old trains to perform like new trains.''

Brown said compensation was being discussed for people who missed the game.

''For those people who did not make the event, either to downtown, but in particular to Eden Park I am not going to allow a situation arise where they are out of pocket. it is critical that we deal with those who were going to the park and we will be carrying out as part of the investigation an assessment of how we can satisfy their concerns.''

He said investigations were underway into problems surrounding transport.

''I do want to say that the outcome from last night in my view as the mayor of the city, not satisfactory at all and we are carrying out an in depth investigation into those issues."

ANGRY PUNTERS

Danny Leonard, from Hamilton, said he followed official advice not to park in the central city last night, instead parking his car at Sylvia park and catching a train.

He was joined by his three children, aged nine, 14 and 20 and his nephew's family who had children aged three, 10 and 13 years old.

Leonard said the crew waited two hours for a train at Sylvia park from 2pm, and were disappointed to miss the preliminary festivities.

When the Leonards arrived in central Auckland they were unable to view the opening ceremony because three out of six screens were not working.

''We watched a screen about a mile away at Wynyard Quarter that looked about the size of a postage stamp, we could only hear the sound.''

Leonard said he and his family left at half time to try and catch a train from Britomart but were met with queues of ''thousands''.

''It turned quite scary for our children when we had gone back to Britomart at half time to make an early exit. We got to Britomart and there must have been 5000-6000 people queuing to get into the station. It was just chaos.''

''There were staff with loud hailers trying to get people to queue, but it was just chaos.''

''We joined a queue in the precinct outside Britomart...For an hour and a half, it didn't move and the crowd got heavier and heavier and our young children started getting anxious.''

The Leonards abandoned public transport to walk uptown for a taxi.

''I can't describe how many people were there, the majority were drunk and my family felt quite threatened.''

Rod Joynes said it was a nightmare catching the bus from Albany on the North Shore to the game and even worse on the way back.

He went to the temporary bus stop to get back to Albany "with about 600 other people" straight after the fireworks.

"It was bloody chaos," he said.

They didn't see a bus for 45 minutes.

"People were lined up about seven deep, pushing to get on the bus."

He said children were crying and the bus driver was screaming at people "get off the bus".

"I think she was actually frightened."

Zach Martin said the ferry situation was also terrible.

He went to queue in Devonport at 3pm and found a line backed up to the library.

"After lining up for nearly two hours we were told that the ferry could no longer take passengers to the city because it had been locked down as it had reached capacity."

He started walking to Takapuna, about 3km away, when a friend picked him up.

"The motorways were free flowing and we easily found a park in the central city," he said.

"After being told to use the public transport system instead of driving, it was clear that the public transport system was clearly not up to scratch."

At about 9.30pm last night, police asked people not to return to the city centre because of problems with the public transport.

The Major Events Operations Centre issued a release saying ferries were unable to berth in the central city from about 6pm last night and could not offload passengers due to crowds blocking the ferry terminal. This was resolved later in the evening.

It said buses operated well and moved 8900 people to Eden Park.

Extra buses were brought in by Auckland Transport to clear the post-match crowd as quickly as possible and it was reported that the majority of the crowd was cleared from Eden Park within the target of 70 minutes.