OPINION: The twin stadium debacles in Wellington and Napier on Thursday have highlighted just how archaic and ’stuck in time’ Kiwi stadiums have become.

Just six years on from hosting one the most successful Rugby World Cups in history, and our sports bodies' and stadium management teams have not only rested on their laurels, they’ve regressed back to the 1980s - when a lukewarm pie and even warmer beer were considered suitable sustenance for an all-day stadium event.

The situation at the Guns N' Roses concert at Wellington’s Westpac Stadium may have been exacerbated by wet weather, but how did organisers not plan for such a damp night out?

Following on from the disaster that was the Wellington Sevens, where barely 10,000 people showed up for an event designed for 70,000, the Cake Tin had another crack at pretending be a world leading stadium, but again came up well short.

Thousands of rock fans were forced to queue without cover in the pelting rain for almost two hours just to get inside the stadium.