Roast The media....*Shakes Head* Part 4

[PowerVic]

Next week's article: Cornes blames Port Adelaide for global warming

 

[LFC2010]

and here it is.

Graham Cornes: I blame Port Adelaide for the demise of Glenelg

http://www.adelaidenow.com.au/sport...g/news-story/4944a89ea5dffd62950a0f760dac7614

What a piece of shit he is.

 

[Steve Dore]

Next week's article: Cornes blames Port Adelaide for global warming

He's already been on the phone to Collaroy residents.

 

[Epilegs]

Is GC of consequence?

Hmmm. Literally nobody I know (in person) has ever quoted GC's rantings as fact, so you may have a point.

 

[Janus]

Let's take his hypothetical and say we were admitted in 1990.

Nathan Buckley, Gavin Wanganeen and Tony Modra would have played alongside the likes of Scott Hodges, Paul Northeast, Mark Williams and Bruce Abernethy and the rest of the 1990 premiership side. With the concessions we negotiated we probably could have got Craig Bradley back from Carlton as well.

The better SANFL players would have come across to Port Adelaide as well.

The 37k that we had on average in our inaugural AFL season would have filled Adelaide Oval and made the club a lot of money.

Would have won the premiership in 1993. We had a decent coach in Cahill after all.

Actually, just take the Crows side plus those players (and minus dickheads like Andrew Jarman et al) and imagine not being beholden to promoting 8 irrelevant clubs in a feeder league but just to themselves, with professional drive, passion, family and true club culture, and that would have been Port Adelaide in 1990.

The demise of the SANFL would have been much swifter and they would have been forced to accept their place in the world.

 

[Steve Dore]

and here it is.

Graham Cornes: I blame Port Adelaide for the demise of Glenelg

http://www.adelaidenow.com.au/sport...g/news-story/4944a89ea5dffd62950a0f760dac7614

What a piece of shit he is.

Did you read the last 4 pages before posting that

 

[Lagooner]

We won, they (he) lost. It's all over. Lol.

You could say that the good times are well and truly gone for Graham and his brethren.

 

[JayPea14]

Check out their A1 photo-shopping abilities

 

[LFC2010]

Kapow!!!

 

[Magpiespower]

Cornesy's gonna Cornes...

#gliderlol

 

[LFC2010]

Did you read the last 4 pages before posting that

no have only just got home from being out all arvo and just saw this.

 

[tribey]

A sad individual with an irrelevant opinion. I'm sure there's people who lament the decline of VCRs, Dazzleland and Mick Skorpos Discount King too.

As if kids are going to give two hoots about a district competition that is now purely a stepping stone to the elite level or a retirement home for guys on the way out. Who cares about Glenelg? Who do they represent? We know who Brighton, Edwardstown, SHOCS, PHOS Camden, Morphettville Park etc represent. Sorry guys, no one cares and no ones coming to save the day. It's over.

In a nutshell.

The SANFL's shark jumped in 1986 when Indian Pacific Ltd and Topher Skase agreed to pay $4,000,000 up front, within 30 days, to secure VFL licences for the West Coast Eagles and Brisbane Bears respectively.

They knew it too, hence their registration of the Adelaide Football Club placeholder with ASIC, which remained in Max Basheer's desk drawer for the better part of five years.

They can bang on and bang on about 'treachery' all they like. Ross Oakley and Alan Schwab weren't going to come crawling with the perfect invitation Leigh Whicker dreamed he could get if only they stuck fat and held out: No licence fee. Utopian recruiting and list concessions, such as retaining the whole of SA as one big zone.

Haha. No.

Port Adelaide was the only club to sniff the wind and face up to cold reality sweeping the sporting landscape. Watching our best player, Martin Leslie, leave to play for the Brisbane Bears at the end of the 1988 season was the final straw. That was the gap that now existed between the greatest football club outside of the Victorian Football League and the weakest club within it.

And it was only going to get worse with each passing year.

We were the only ones smart enough to baulk at the prevailing quagmire and despite all the whacks and troughs of the past quarter-century, thank goodness we did.

You only have to look at the horrendous governance of the SANFL and the proceeds of its strategic direction in the AFL-era to get a glimpse of the provincial fate that was to befall us if Bruce Weber and his board didn't have the vision and courage to take that leap in 1990.

 

[Steve Dore]

no have only just got home from being out all arvo and just saw this.

I suspected that your rage lead you to go straight to posting

 

[PepeSilvia]

I'm well and truly past caring what Graham has to say.

I don't reckon he believes what he writes, he's merely a shock jock pandering to the lowest common denominator. If he is serious, then I actually feel sorry for him.

Still, if the old campaigner was on fire, I wouldn't piss on him.

 

[bacharach]

Don't know what your all complaining about.
Glad to take credit for the demise on Glenelg /saanfl.

Also, way to busy being stoked about our 3.5 million viewers in China and opening a whole new world of commercial opportunities....ay, ay!

Na, that's mean. Back to Glenelg. Is there a collection tin or something?

 

[Rexie J]

If ever we needed to be reminded we live in a State totally devoid of media credibility...............

 

[Portmanteau]

I don't want to distract from the righteous Graham Cornes hate fest, but I feel obliged to inform you all the Rowie has blamed Port Adelaide for the current burst water mains crisis. Apparently we caused funds to be redirected from this area when agitating for the move to Adelaide Oval.

 

[pastmyprimus]

Surely the signed-up Glenelg members can clear the debt. With their large membership base it's only $50,000 per member.

 

[Alberton Proud]

Surely the signed-up Glenelg members can clear the debt. With their large membership base it's only $50,000 per member.

They apparently signed up 70 new members the day after the news broke

70

 

[Grave Danger]

With tax time coming up soon, I hope Timmy G kept his receipt for that Bays membership he bought this year - surely he could claim that as a charitable donation, or loss/depreciation.

 

[pastmyprimus]

They apparently signed up 70 new members the day after the news broke

70

Does that include pets

 

[Magus]

I know exactly how you feel. We have to put up with Rucci. Just be thankful GC's articles are only once a week or so.

Poor you. Rucci once wrote an article about our club with the headline "Port Adelaide in the u-bend waiting to be flushed."

When Rucci likens your club to fecal matter, you can complain. Until then stop being so precious. He has no allegiance, he's a professional shit stirrer.

 

[Magus]

I was at Alberton on Saturday and after the game I ventured onto the middle of the oval to kick the footy with my son. At one point I looked up to see a tall, skeletal figure clad completely in black lurching towards me and for a moment I thought the angel of death had descended to collect my mortal soul - turned out to be Graham Cornes. He was being trailed by two young girls (daughters/granddaughters/great-granddaughters - who knows) head to toe in Port gear and it brought a smile to my face, knowing that karma is torturing him every waking minute of his life.

Had to quote this because it's ****ing classic.

 

[Lagooner]

Let's take his hypothetical and say we were admitted in 1990.

Nathan Buckley, Gavin Wanganeen and Tony Modra would have played alongside the likes of Scott Hodges, Paul Northeast, Mark Williams and Bruce Abernethy and the rest of the 1990 premiership side. With the concessions we negotiated we probably could have got Craig Bradley back from Carlton as well.

The better SANFL players would have come across to Port Adelaide as well.

The 37k that we had on average in our inaugural AFL season would have filled Adelaide Oval and made the club a lot of money.

Would have won the premiership in 1993. We had a decent coach in Cahill after all.

Actually, just take the Crows side plus those players (and minus dickheads like Andrew Jarman et al) and imagine not being beholden to promoting 8 irrelevant clubs in a feeder league but just to themselves, with professional drive, passion, family and true club culture, and that would have been Port Adelaide in 1990.

The demise of the SANFL would have been much swifter and they would have been forced to accept their place in the world.

Nice story but the reality is that we would've gone bankrupt because reasons.

Gra Gra said so.

 

[Finest of Wines]

What doesn't he blame port for?

He was the crows first coach in the AFL for god sake, he contributed to the demise of his precious bays and sanfl