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Can you add all their salaries? Cheers

@Booney little help?

He’s a fraction more than a little help

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This is why I never do nice things for people...

https://youtu.be/znodcpMzcnA?si=TQpuuJkPOjbU-E8y

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No Cornes in Port Adelaide

https://www.adelaidenow.com.au/news/opi ... 0b465c43a7

Studley’s been waiting years to write this. Good to see he has let go of a few things over the years ...

"A huge weight has been lifted. The ceasefire is over."

With Chad Cornes’ departure from Port Adelaide, Graham can now finally put to bed any well wishes towards the club | Graham Cornes

Thankfully, with one son gone from Alberton and the other’s tenure coming to an end, we won’t have any reason to wish Port Adelaide well. A huge weight has been lifted. The ceasefire is over, writes Graham Cornes.

All good things must come to an end at some stage. A coaching term is finite. Eventually you will be sacked.

The polite term these days is your “contract won’t be renewed”. Mine was a little more brutal than that. There was still a year to run on the contract. In that case, sacked was the correct term.

Chad’s this week was more gentle. After 10 seasons, the contract wasn’t going to be renewed. A worthy and loyal servant of the club as a player and a coach, his time will come to an end.

A new coach has the right to surround himself with his own people, and maybe Chad was a little too close to Ken Hinkley. Besides, a struggling team does need a new infusion of influence.

Chad’s been versatile at Alberton. He’s been Port’s SANFL team’s senior coach as well as an AFL assistant in defence and then the forward lines. The Port Magpies got to the grand final in 2017 but lost to Sturt by one point.

He didn’t take it well. Wouldn’t look the umpires in the eye. Didn’t speak to the media, although to be fair, no one asked. They called him a sore loser. Fair enough?

But there are no rules for losing. What’s the value in being a good loser? A good loser is just that … a loser.

Coaching the Magpies was always a stepping stone to being an AFL assistant – first as defensive line coach, then to the forward half of the ground. Defence is easier.

Get the balance between talls and smalls, get the runners and the stoppers, find the player(s) with a flair for intercept marking, instil the instinct to attack and the job is pretty well done.

It’s easier to develop defenders than to create goal scoring forwards.

You probably have to draft them and just about everyone Port has drafted or traded in, has hit a hurdle with injury.

Mitch Georgiades did his ACL. Todd Marshall has myriad ongoing issues. Charlie Dixon’s body succumbed to the bash-and-crash style he played. Rarely did he get an easy kick.

Sam Powell-Pepper, as important as any Port forward, has done a second ACL as well as missing a sizeable chunk of football through suspension. Jack Lukosius played his third game this year after his knee injury in round 2.

Obviously father and son, we discuss football within the boundaries of club/coach/media confidentialities. I don’t ask for inside information and nothing specific is forthcoming. But we do talk football.

When he told me he was taking over the forward-line coaching role, my response was blunt. “Mate that is a poisoned chalice.” He didn’t agree with me but given all the difficulties they have had with injuries and their poor record of forward line entries, it has proven to be so.

Who would enjoy playing in or coaching Port’s forward line? But he battled on.

To get to the preliminary final last year was a remarkable coaching effort from all of the Port coaches.

This year has been harder. They have that elite midfield but the rest of the team, the backs, the forwards and the rucks have not had elite numbers. It’s tough but someone has to pay.

However, from a purely selfish point of view, finally the bond has been broken, the shackles released. The family will be free to resume the fight. Or at least the patriarch will be.

The hostilities that erupted in the 1980s and continued through to 1997 until the ceasefire when Port Adelaide drafted Chad at pick nine, can resume.

Only the old-timers will remember but it was open warfare against Port Adelaide in those days. We hated them and they hated us.

It was Port Adelaide against the rest but there was more venom in the Glenelg-Port Adelaide rivalry.

The protagonist was of course David Granger but after he had retired or was sacked, the breakaway Port board who destroyed the SANFL as we knew it in 1990, felt the full brunt of other clubs’ anger and disappointment.

However, Port Adelaide loved it. “Us Against The Rest.” They thrived on that mantra.

John Cahill, the master coach, extracted every ounce of effort from his players.

His coaching record, second to none, was built on overcoming the provocation and the hostilities of every other SANFL club.

Convincing his players of their superiority, making them feel 10 feet tall, he led the SANFL Magpies to unprecedented success.

It was harder leading the new Power team in the club’s first two seasons in the AFL but Cahill’s record as an AFL coach in a club’s first two formative seasons is as good as any of those of the new franchises. We can hate the club but still respect the individuals.

But things got worse – or was it better? – when, three years later, Port drafted Chad’s younger brother, Kane. It was football karma.

Better for the boys who got to stay in Adelaide and had successful careers playing with each other but a nightmare for their father who irresistibly and involuntarily found himself barracking, albeit in a suppressed, impassive manner, for the mortal enemy.

In the end I succumbed. The 2004 premiership was a great day for the family.

The genesis of all this hostility was the 1981 grand final between Glenelg and Port when Granger king hit ‘Twiggy’ Caldwell off the ball. A violent, brutal, cowardly act that still has repercussions.

The enmity reached fever-pitch the following year in the 1982 preliminary final.

But there were other moments. A young Glenelg reserves player, Alf Densley, spent the night in hospital with concussion and a split tongue. A quiet theology student from the country, he deserved to be able to play the game without the fear of violent assaults.

It seemed like every match between Port and Glenelg in those days turned into violent confrontation. Port weren’t always the instigators. There was a violent clash at the Bay between David Holst and Tony Giles where the Port player came off second best.

The young Magarey Medallist Greg Anderson was knocked out by Scott Salisbury in the 1986 qualifying final. Greg still won’t believe me that it wasn’t premeditated. It was how football was played in those days between Glenelg and Port Adelaide. Do it to them before they do it to you.

Fortunately, the game has changed. Players are entitled to feel safe on the footy field.

Thankfully, with one son gone from Alberton and the other’s tenure coming to an end when the season finishes, we won’t have any reason to wish Port Adelaide well.

A huge weight has been lifted. The ceasefire is over.

[MW]

Where do you think Kane learnt his craft from? Don’t get sucked in

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Where do you think Kane learnt his craft from? Don’t get sucked in

Sucked in to what?

Studley writes from the heart … many times misguided but for what it's worth, it’s what he believes. He never announced his playing retirement because he didn't want any fuss made of it.

Kane is a clueless moron, who only cares about himself and the number of clicks he gets.

They couldn't be more different.

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Where do you think Kane learnt his craft from? Don’t get sucked in

Sucked in to what?

Studley writes from the heart … many times misguided but for what it's worth, it’s what he believes. He never announced his playing retirement because he didn't want any fuss made of it.

Kane is a clueless moron, who only cares about himself and the number of clicks he gets.

They couldn't be more different.

It must’ve been so painful for Studley to have to support a club that he had rightful reasons to hate. I’m not a huge fan of his post football but I

[Lightning McQueen]

Where do you think Kane learnt his craft from? Don’t get sucked in

Sucked in to what?

Studley writes from the heart … many times misguided but for what it's worth, it’s what he believes. He never announced his playing retirement because he didn't want any fuss made of it.

Kane is a clueless moron, who only cares about himself and the number of clicks he gets.

They couldn't be more different.

It must have been hard for Studley to have to semi-support a club that he had good reason to hate, I’m not a huge fan of his post his playing days and I can appreciate his sentiments. I’d take Chad in my team any day over Kane and he’s a genuine good bloke, I hope he lands a decent gig somewhere.

I guess it’s a weight lifted from Graham now.

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Chad is one of the most unassuming, loyal, selfless but determined humans on Earth … none of the characteristics his brother has.

I wish him well on whatever he does next.

[Booney]

Old Studley, has no reason to talk about Port anymore so does a full page on Port Adelaide.

Completely owned by the Port Adelaide Football Club.

[dedja]

Old Studley, has no reason to talk about Port anymore so does a full page on Port Adelaide.

Completely owned by the Port Adelaide Football Club.

Last century news …

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Old Studley, has no reason to talk about Port anymore so does a full page on Port Adelaide.

Completely owned by the Port Adelaide Football Club.

Poor bastard will never recover from his post GF speeches!!
Imagine congratulating someone you genuinely hate

Not once but………

[dedja]

Old Studley, has no reason to talk about Port anymore so does a full page on Port Adelaide.

Completely owned by the Port Adelaide Football Club.

Poor bastard will never recover from his post GF speeches!!
Imagine congratulating someone you genuinely hate

Not once but………

I’ve posted this many times before, but it never ages … poor Bone.

https://youtu.be/PfAxlDLYH-8?si=KI1bySaPUm3-5lbp

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Old Studley, has no reason to talk about Port anymore so does a full page on Port Adelaide.

Completely owned by the Port Adelaide Football Club.

Poor bastard will never recover from his post GF speeches!!
Imagine congratulating someone you genuinely hate

Not once but………

At least he had the balls to…
And he lives rent free in so many Port people’s heads it’s not funny.

[LaughingKookaburra]

That era in South Australian football history is the reason why the Showdown now is the most genuine tribal rivalry in Australian Football. Studley has made a fortune and lives in one of Adelaide’s premier locations of the back of Port Adelaide fans ringing 5aa to give him absolute shit that he laughs at. Kane is similar, however he gets more personal than his Dad. Studley is a treasure to South Australian Football, any coach who smokes the Big V on the MCG deserves the highest honour as that is the undisputed toughest task in football history.