1980 Tassie Medalist wrote:Funny, Barrie Robran puts Graham Cornes in the same category as himself, Russell Ebert, Peter Carey, Paul Bagshaw, Rick Davies and one other player (I can't remember who) as part of the magnificent 7 group of SANFL footballers of the 1970s. My source is the Boys from the Bay DVD
Far be it for me to criticise an opinion of Barrie Robran but if you want to.......
Given that he played against all those blokes he is probably in a better position than us to pass judgement on the quality of the players....
I don't know if the seventh player is Fred Bills or one of Norwoods greats of he 70s Michael Taylor??
Its not funny at all, Barrie would put hundreds of players in the same category as himself, that's just the sort of guy he is.
And your ability to assess other footballers has nothing to do with your own ability.
2 completely different things.
Its subjective but I'd be pretty safe in saying that a majority with any sort of footy knowledge or that saw both play over their career wouldn't have Cornes and Robran in the same category as footballers.
I don't think Cornes is a legend in the AFL Hall of Fame.
You've missed my main point though, people are talking about the way Cornsey acts and talks.
In that subject (which this has drifted onto) there is no comparison.
Personally I'm not criticising Cornes as loves soundling like a clown to get a bit of attention.
He opens himself up to criticism and he loves it.
Wildy's on a similar scale at 5AA and as I said go for it, compare those 2 away and abuse them silly, I have no problem!
Me blindly backing Wildy up if he got criticised on here would be a very fair and close comparison, but I wouldn't do that as I'm a bit more open minded than that.
But as I said before there is no comparing Robran and Cornes on anything, except on producing 2 AFL players each!
