Feet may be slow to shuffle in for Otago or Super 14 games but when it comes to test rugby, it seems Dunedin folk can not get enough.
For the third year in a row, Carisbrook is a sell-out for a test match - with more than two weeks to spare - while other grounds around the country are struggling to fill seats.
The last ticket was sold on Wednesday and 28,000 people will be at Carisbrook on the night of June 19 to watch the All Blacks play Wales in Dunedin for the first time.
This is in stark contrast to other venues around New Zealand.
In New Plymouth, more than 4000 seats are left for the test between the All Blacks and Ireland in eight days and about 7000 tickets are left in Hamilton for the second test between the All Blacks and the Welsh on June 26.
Tickets have yet to go sale for the Tri-Nations tests in Christchurch and Wellington, while Auckland has 4500 tickets to sell at Eden Park, which is being redeveloped and has just a 25,000 capacity for the test between the All Blacks and Springboks on July 10.
Though all grounds were expected to sell out, only Dunedin has the full-house sign out already.
Otago Rugby Football Union chief executive Richard Reid said Dunedin had the advantage of being a great size to host a test match.
"We are probably big enough to be able to sell out and yet small enough for it to still be a big deal. And really, the way Dunedin does a test match, with the retailers and the publicans getting in behind it, it is good fun," Reid said.
"The Dunedin City Council does a great job, and the test match committee, which is formed voluntarily, has once again been fantastic."
Reid admitted this year's test, the last one involving the All Blacks at Carisbrook and, if the Forsyth Barr Stadium is built on time, the final test at Carisbrook, was a marketing dream.
"I never once thought it would not sell out. This is a big occasion and people want to be involved. And the All Blacks are seen by everybody as their team."
He said the initiative to sell tickets exclusively for those living south of the Waitaki river had again gone well.
About 85% of the tickets had been snapped up by people in the Highlanders region.
Reid said from a rugby perspective, people wanted to come along as there was an expectation the All Blacks would win and play entertaining rugby.
"People know that before they go. Now we've got to get that with Highlanders and Otago rugby. We mightn't be able to get 28,000 to Highlanders and Otago games but we would be hopeful of getting between 12,000 and 15,000."
