When Geelong historian and former vice-president Bob Gartland told the ABC in March that “the stadium precinct is probably the glue that holds us all together”, it is unlikely that he had in mind the mud at Kardinia Park.
When you feed a stadium off the public purse like a foie gras goose, one thing you don’t expect is a surface that was as redolent as the guernsey the Cats wore to celebrate Edward “Carji” Greeves and the centenary of his Brownlow Medal triumph.
