Crowds
The highest crowd to ever attend an event at Kardinia Park was an Australian Rules Football match between the Geelong Cats and the Carlton Blues on the 30 August 1952, 49,109 attended. On the 4 January 2009 the Victoria Bushrangers Twenty20 Cricket team against the Queensland Bulls attracted 12,327. A Soccer match between Melbourne Victory and the Newcastle Jets in 2008 pulled a crowd of 8,500. The first Rugby match at Kardinia Park occurred in 2012, Melbourne Rebels played Waikato Chiefs and attracted a crowd of 8,000.
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“Along the iron veins that traverse the frame of our country, beat and flow the fiery pulses of its exertion, hotter and faster every hour. All vitality is concentrated through those throbbing arteries into the central cities; the country is passed over like a green sea by narrow bridges, and we are thrown back in continually closer crowds on the city gates.”
—John Ruskin (1819–1900)
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—George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950)
“Although crowds gathered once if she but showed her face,
And even old men’s eyes grew dim, this hand alone,
Like some last courtier at a gypsy camping-place
Babbling of fallen majesty, records what’s gone.”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)