Cornes complaint

[JK]

Probably need to know specifics to know if he has a point or not. As I said elsewhere, the Hill as usual was passionate but friendly enough, I had beers with both Port and Norwood people at different occasions. We do need to be mindful of not keeping kids away from the comp if they feel threatened, and physical violence and racist or sexual taunts etc are obviously a clear no-no. But at the same time you have to question whether these ex-AFL players complaining, are doing so because they come from the more sanitised and sheltered AFL environment?

[Grenville]

I've got a couple of Norwood mates who were standing in front of the Premiers Bar and they reckon The Chad might be acting a wee bit precious.

[Gozu]

HTFU

This sounds a lot like two AFL prima donnas not being used to dealing with SANFL crowds. You're no longer in the sanitised AFL bubble.

What next no eye contact allowed with the great Chad Cornes on his way back up to the box?

[blood bath]

Wasn't as though the Chad ever incited a crows crowd...

[Bounce of the ball]

Probably need to know specifics to know if he has a point or not. As I said elsewhere, the Hill as usual was passionate but friendly enough, I had beers with both Port and Norwood people at different occasions. We do need to be mindful of not keeping kids away from the comp if they feel threatened, and physical violence and racist or sexual taunts etc are obviously a clear no-no. But at the same time you have to question whether these ex-AFL players complaining, are doing so because they come from the more sanitised and sheltered AFL environment?

Good comment. I have been to games where Norwood played and some of their supporters were aggressive and embarrassing. It even involved more mature woman walking back to the car. I never witnessed or experienced a hostile Norwood crowd until Bassett took over ? Is there something in that ?

On the other side is Cornes a bit precious as well. What it displays is the angst with the AFL reserves inclusion not the Port/ Norwood rilvary and that is exactly why Younie has been quoted.

[Bounce of the ball]

Wasn't as though the Chad ever incited a crows crowd...

Very valid comment. Maybe people just don't like him and Port. Surprising.

[Jim05]

Wasn't as though the Chad ever incited a crows crowd...

Very valid comment. Maybe people just don't like him and Port. Surprising.

Didn't help that Port went the man on the night either. Sharrad copped a bit of grief after throwing one at JD that earns him a weeks holiday

[Grenville]

The ultimate hypocrisy would be if Chad accused someone of spitting on him.

[stan]

Probably need to know specifics to know if he has a point or not. As I said elsewhere, the Hill as usual was passionate but friendly enough, I had beers with both Port and Norwood people at different occasions. We do need to be mindful of not keeping kids away from the comp if they feel threatened, and physical violence and racist or sexual taunts etc are obviously a clear no-no. But at the same time you have to question whether these ex-AFL players complaining, are doing so because they come from the more sanitised and sheltered AFL environment?

Good comment. I have been to games where Norwood played and some of their supporters were aggressive and embarrassing. It even involved more mature woman walking back to the car. I never witnessed or experienced a hostile Norwood crowd until Bassett took over ? Is there something in that ?

On the other side is Cornes a bit precious as well. What it displays is the angst with the AFL reserves inclusion not the Port/ Norwood rilvary and that is exactly why Younie has been quoted.

This is probably what concerns me that we need to be careful of stopping familes coming to the game as we want the families and younger generation as part of the future. Also being on the ground during the breaks around the huddles is great but this sort of thing could take that away.

But Im mindful that Cornes is bit of a precious flog. Did some fans over step the mark, well maybe but lets all take a breath just for a sec.

[locky801]

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Chad been taking lessons from Daddy

[Pseudo]

PORT Adelaide and Adelaide have called for greater security at SANFL matches after Chad Cornes labelled the crowd at Norwood Oval last week as “probably the most abusive I’ve ever been involved with either at AFL or SANFL level’’.

Crows SANFL coach Heath Younie backed Cornes’s call for greater safety measures for players and coaches and revealed Adelaide employs its own plain-clothes security guards to deal with crowd trouble “just in case something happens’’.

At what proportion of Clowns games would there be more security in the crowd than Clown fans? Got to boost the crowd figures somehow I s'pose.

[Rik E Boy]

We don't like you. Get out of our comp fool.

regards,

REB

[Booney]

Shows the intelligence of people, on here and at the footy, if I abuse shit out of the players and coach enough they'll leave. Dead set **** head if that's your preferred method of stating your case and shows you've not got the intellect to approach the situation in any manner to make a real difference.

Pretty sure Chad has thick skin, pretty sure he's been around the game long enough to know what's par for the course and what's not. **** me, he's a Glenelg boy, his fathers Graham and he's a Port man at heart now....like he's never copped a serve before!

Alberton hasn't ever been a sanctuary for the intellectually superior or culturally advanced, for sure, but some of the stuff I've heard and been threatened with in the last two years has been remarkable and as noted above, if you're that ******* thick to think that you'll be the catalyst for the sides being removed from the competition I wish you luck surviving in this world without opposable thumbs.

I too have thick skin, very thick around the middle and give as good as I get but I have never threatened anyone with physical violence or ( as at Woodville last year - lol ) - "I'll shit in my pie bag and stick down your ******* throat". I trust his work for the dole scheme is going well.

[Dogwatcher]

Well, no doubting that there are passionate supporters out there and going by Facebook, it would seem it was one of those passionate supporters who set this whole scenario up.
From what I can read, via Facey and in the story, there appears to have been two issues on the night.

1) A confrontation on field in which Kane Cornes was insulted, to which he responded in kind. The comments from both men seem OTP and deliberately provocative. It would seem that one person instigated the issue and went to FB to let everyone know, the other involved himself in the verbal altercation and then had a bigger mouthpiece to make a noise about it. A couple of hundred Facey followers v a man with massive media contacts looking to make anything into a story.
I reckon if the Kane doesn't want to deal with stuff like that, he shouldn't respond. He's a club official and should handle the situation with dignity.
The supporter might need to consider whether his up-close verbal attacks are doing his club and SANFL supporters any favours.

2) The other situation seems to be about Kane and his family attending the game and having to leave early. As a parent, I sympathise with that - but, earthy banter is what you'll get from any footy crowd: AFL, SANFL or grass roots. I don't reckon what you hear at Norwood is any different to what you hear on any other terrace. I suggest that that stuff doesn't go on around the players' families at AFL level as they sit with each other and are relatively sheltered from the hoi polloi. I understand that Kane might have felt disappointed in what was going on around him, but it is no better, nor worse than what goes on elsewhere. You do have to choose where you stand/sit at any football game, depending upon the crowd that is around you (my experience at Norwood is that if you want a moderate football experience, you don't sit near the Baulderstone Stand, nor Hill at Norwood).

They're two different situations being used to build up a story involving a high-profile football family who love the media - and banter - when it's in their favour.
But the other bloke involved in the on-field 'discussion' with the master crowd baiter probably needs to consider his actions as well.

[Wedgie]

Shows the intelligence of people, on here and at the footy, if I abuse shit out of the players and coach enough they'll leave. Dead set **** head if that's your preferred method of stating your case and shows you've not got the intellect to approach the situation in any manner to make a real difference.

So if you abuse people you're a dead set **** head?
I assume this is an April Fools post?

[Booney]

Bit rich coming from port I would've thought. Do they hear their own ferals at alberton?

That's not really the point, however, every club has ferals, anyone who says they don't is kidding themselves but it comes down to how far you go with what is said, if a line is crossed it isn't acceptable, simple as that and regardless of who, where and when.

I've spoken to a few people about this and one stated the 3/4 time Port huddle was on a knifes edge and could have escalated to be out of hand very quickly. If it's at that point, it's gone too far. No?

[Booney]

Shows the intelligence of people, on here and at the footy, if I abuse shit out of the players and coach enough they'll leave. Dead set **** head if that's your preferred method of stating your case and shows you've not got the intellect to approach the situation in any manner to make a real difference.

So if you abuse people you're a dead set **** head?
I assume this is an April Fools post?

Might need to read it again, if you think abusing people is the way to fix the reserves issue then yes, you are, how can it help any efforts to return the SANFL to what it was?

All it will do is give more people reason not to attend.

[Wedgie]

Shows the intelligence of people, on here and at the footy, if I abuse shit out of the players and coach enough they'll leave. Dead set **** head if that's your preferred method of stating your case and shows you've not got the intellect to approach the situation in any manner to make a real difference.

So if you abuse people you're a dead set **** head?
I assume this is an April Fools post?

Might need to read it again, if you think abusing people is the way to fix the reserves issue then yes, you are, how can it help any efforts to return the SANFL to what it was?

All it will do is give more people reason not to attend.

Apologies, I thought you were taking the piss by abusing people for abusing people.

[Booney]

Shows the intelligence of people, on here and at the footy, if I abuse shit out of the players and coach enough they'll leave. Dead set **** head if that's your preferred method of stating your case and shows you've not got the intellect to approach the situation in any manner to make a real difference.

So if you abuse people you're a dead set **** head?
I assume this is an April Fools post?

Might need to read it again, if you think abusing people is the way to fix the reserves issue then yes, you are, how can it help any efforts to return the SANFL to what it was?
All it will do is give more people reason not to attend.

Apologies, I thought you were taking the piss by abusing people for abusing people.

I'm not Taylor Walker.

[tipper]

late twist in this story should be that it was a port supporter that was having a go at the chad.

just like the bloke who chucked his membership card at the crows players at prospect that turned out to be a crows supporter and nothing to do with North