A year must seem like a long time for the Black Ferns and Wallaroos who will meet each other in Sydney tonight in vastly different circumstances to the last time they played.
For different read better, but for better don't read perfect. Women's rugby is in the midst of a welcome revolution. The wheels are turning, not as fast as everyone would like, but turning nevertheless and creating a landscape that looks significantly more high performance than it did when the Black Ferns last played the Wallaroos in June 2017.
That last fixture was played in front of barely a soul at Rugby Park in Christchurch. It was two amateur teams, their respective players mostly having taken annual leave to be there, getting a game in ahead of the impending World Cup.
The biggest, or at least the most obvious difference tonight, will be the scale of the audience and surroundings.
From barely being noticed in Christchurch, the Black Ferns will be centre stage in Sydney, likely playing in front of a crowd at ANZ Stadium that may be around a few thousand when the game kicks off, but one that will grow to something close to 35,000 to 45,000 by the time it finishes.