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All respect but based on what? from memory there wasn't any tangible evidence (no times, no skinfolds, no houses trained down ala masto). those articles just seemed standard puff piece BS.
If there's one thing kornes knows about its training standards, it's pretty much the only edge he ever had over anyone as a player and was probably the sole reason someone with as little natural talent that he had made it to 300 games. (also probably the reason he goes after it to much, e.g. jake stringer, us, the AFLW fwd from gold coast/hawf)
I'm in his camp on this one.
Based on my own observations over multiple preseason training sessions for a start
There were also numerous articles from a variety of sources commenting on how much trimmer McGovern was
Anyone looking at preseason photos would not conclude either McGivern or Yeo were anything other than trim
The only player carrying excess weight into last preseason was Naitanui
I don’t doubt Cornes knows what training hard looks like. I do doubt that he spent any time watching our preseason to make an educated opinion on what we were doing