Kane Graham Cornes (born 5 January 1983) is a former
Australian rules football
Australian football, also called Australian rules football or Aussie rules, or more simply football or footy, is a contact sport played between two teams of 18 players on an oval field, often a modified cricket ground. Points are scored by k ...
er who played for the
Port Adelaide Football Club
Port Adelaide Football Club is a professional Australian rules football club based in Alberton, South Australia, Alberton, South Australia. The club's senior men's team plays in the Australian Football League (AFL), where they are nicknamed ...
in the
Australian Football League
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(AFL).
Early life
A product of
Sacred Heart College and
Glenelg in the
SANFL
The South Australian National Football League, or SANFL ( or ''S-A-N-F-L''), is an Australian rules football league based in the Australian state of South Australia. It is also the state's governing body for the sport.
Originally formed as the ...
, he made his AFL debut in 2001 after being selected with pick 20 in the
2000 AFL Draft. Before his professional football career he attended Sacred Heart College, which is one of the most prolific schools in Australia in terms of producing Australian footballers. His
All Australian
The All-Australian team is an all-star team of Australian rules footballers, selected by a panel at the end of each season. It represents a complete team, including an interchange bench, of the best-performed players during the season, led by ...
brother,
Chad Cornes
Chad Studley Cornes (born 12 November 1979) is a former professional Australian rules footballer who played for the Port Adelaide Football Club and Greater Western Sydney Giants in the Australian Football League (AFL). He was a member of the Po ...
, also attended Sacred Heart College and played for Glenelg in the SANFL. They are the sons of South Australian football identity
Graham Cornes
Graham Studley Cornes Order of Australia, OAM (born 31 March 1948 in Melbourne, Victoria) is a former Australian rules footballer and coach, as well as a media personality. From 1995 until early 2013, Cornes co-hosted a weekday drivetime sports ...
, and stepsons of 2007 Federal Labor candidate
Nicole Cornes. They have three younger half-sisters paternally.
AFL career
In 2001 and 2002, Cornes played in Port Adelaide's two pre-season competition winning teams.
Then in 2004, the team made the step up, and Cornes was in the team that won the 2004 AFL premiership, Port Adelaide's first in the AFL. 2004, Cornes' fourth season in the competition, saw him cement his position in the midfield, averaging 20 disposals a game.
Cornes continued his good form into 2005 becoming
All Australian
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, and in 2006 played his 100th game for the club in round 7, and topped the AFL Dreamteam competition, despite his team Port Adelaide having a bad year.
In 2007, Cornes won
All Australian
The All-Australian team is an all-star team of Australian rules footballers, selected by a panel at the end of each season. It represents a complete team, including an interchange bench, of the best-performed players during the season, led by ...
selection for the second time in a team otherwise dominated by Geelong players. He was also the leading possession winner in the AFL, received the most Brownlow votes for the year for Port Adelaide, and won their best and fairest, the
John Cahill Medal
The John Cahill Medal, named after the Port Adelaide Football Club's ten time premiership coach and inaugural AFL coach John Cahill, is awarded to the club player adjudged best and fairest for the season. The voting system as of the 2017 AFL ...
, ahead of brother
Chad
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.
In 2010, Cornes took out his third John Cahill Medal and confirmed his reputation as the club's most consistent player through a new attacking role that went beyond his previous role of merely tagging the opposition's best players. His 36-possession, 2-goal game against the Western Bulldogs in Round 16 of that year was a highlight, in addition to a 38-possession effort against West Coast late in the year. Instrumental in the Power's late season fortunes, his third best and fairest highlighted his durability as a mainstay of the Port Adelaide engine room.
In 2011, Cornes had a difficult season by his standards as he adjusted to a new role which took him further away from his traditional tagging duties. Before 2011, Cornes had not missed a single game since 2003. But round 4, 2011 saw his streak of 174 consecutive games come to an end when he was omitted from the side. Playing more on the wing and across halfback, he was sent back to Glenelg in the SANFL with a view to adapting better to the coaching panel's new expectations. He still managed to play 17 games out of a possible 23, despite spending time back at the SANFL Tigers, and was serviceable in his ball-winning ability.
Cornes made an impressive return to form in 2012, playing every game, and playing an exceptional season as a setup midfielder. He won his fourth John Cahill medal. He once again topped the disposals count for the season. Cornes received high praise for returning to his acclaimed tagging football with top performances on midfield heavyweights
Brent Harvey
Brent Harvey (born 14 May 1978), often known by his nickname "Boomer", is a former Australian rules footballer who played for the North Melbourne Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL). He holds the record for most matches played ...
(North Melbourne) and
Gary Ablett (Gold Coast).
Cornes reached his 250th game in Round 5 of 2013, where Port Adelaide came from 41-points down to win 12.12 (84) to 10.19 (79) at AAMI Stadium against the West Coast Eagles, taking the Power to a 5–0 start to the season. Shortly after, Cornes passed Warren Tredrea's record of 258 games to become the man who has played the most games for Port Adelaide in the AFL, in a match where Port thrashed Greater Western Sydney at Skoda Stadium, 19.11 (125) to 6.14 (50). Cornes has played a vital role under Ken Hinkley in reinventing Port Adelaide and getting the team back into finals in 2013, and helping the Power to their best ever start to an AFL season in 2014, starting 10–1, before eventually losing the 2014 preliminary final to Hawthorn, the eventual premiers, by three points.
Cornes' 2015 season was short. He played the first two games of the season before being rested in round three. He then played a further three games to take his career tally to 298 before announcing that the round 8 game against
Richmond
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would be his 300th and last to join the
South Australian Metropolitan Fire Service
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The M ...
.
He finished his Port Adelaide career having played a total of 300 games, winning 4 best and fairest, two All Australian guernseys and a premiership.
Media career
Cornes took up a full-time media career in 2016 after a short tenure with the South Australia Metropolitan Fire Service, where he had been trying to do both, with appearances on
The Sunday Footy Show and
1116 SEN
1116 SEN (call sign 3AK) is an Australian radio station in Victoria. Owned and operated by Pacific Star Network, it broadcasts a sports radio format from Lower Plenty to Greater Melbourne. First broadcast on 29 November 1931 as 3AK, the sta ...
, as well as writing for
The Advertiser. He has been known for some provocative commentary on leading AFL figures such as
Patrick Dangerfield
Patrick Dangerfield (born 5 April 1990) is an Australian rules footballer playing for the Geelong Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL). He previously played for the Adelaide Football Club.
Drafted by Adelaide in 2007, Dangerfi ...
and
Hawthorn Hawks
The Hawthorn Football Club, nicknamed the Hawks, is a professional Australian rules football club based in Mulgrave, Victoria, Mulgrave, Victoria (Australia), Victoria, that competes in the Australian Football League (AFL). The club was founded ...
in a challenging manner. He is particularly known for his critical views including an on-going battle of words with
Adelaide Crows
The Adelaide Crows (officially the Adelaide Football Club) are a professional Australian rules football team based in Adelaide, South Australia. Founded in 1990. The Crows has fielded a men's team in the Australian Football League (AFL) sinc ...
player
Taylor Walker.
Personal life
On 31 December 2004, Kane married long-time girlfriend, who he met at Sacred Heart College, Lucy. They have three children together, Eddy Jack, Raphael William and Sonny.
Cornes was a member of the
South Australian Metropolitan Fire Service
The South Australian Metropolitan Fire Service (SAMFS) is the fire service for metropolitan and urban South Australia, as well as large townships. The Metropolitan Fire Service is constituted under the ''Fire and Emergency Services Act''.
The M ...
,
[ while also trying to balance working in the media before leaving to take up a solely media based position. He has also provided part-time coaching work at the ]Glenelg Football Club
Glenelg Football Club is an Australian rules football team, which plays in the South Australian National Football League. The club is known as the "Tigers" (or the "Bays"), and their home ground is ACH Group Stadium (formerly Glenelg Oval), lo ...
.
Cornes is an accomplished distance runner
Long-distance running, or endurance running, is a form of continuous running over distances of at least . Physiologically, it is largely aerobic in nature and requires stamina as well as mental strength.
Within endurance running comes two d ...
having finished in the top 30 of the Melbourne Marathon
The Melbourne Marathon has been held annually since 1978. The 42.195 km run over the traditional marathon distance is the main race within the annual Melbourne Marathon Festival. The race celebrated its 30th birthday in 2007 with a new cour ...
and Gold Coast Marathon
The Gold Coast Marathon is an annual road marathon on the Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia, first held in 1979. Marketed as "Australia's premier road race", the marathon is the only race in Australia to hold World Athletics Label status. ...
.
Playing statistics
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The September 11 attacks against the United States by Al-Qaeda, which Casualties of the September 11 attacks, killed 2,977 people and instigated the global war on terror, were a defining event of 2001. The United States led a Participants in ...
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, 39 , , 7 , , 1 , , 4 , , 47 , , 34 , , 81 , , 20 , , 8 , , 0.1 , , 0.6 , , 6.7 , , 4.9 , , 11.6 , , 2.9 , , 1.1
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! scope="row" style="text-align:center" , 2002
File:2002 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The 2002 Winter Olympics are held in Salt Lake City; Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother and her daughter Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon die; East Timor gains East Timor independence, indepe ...
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, 18 , , 15 , , 3 , , 4 , , 136 , , 54 , , 190 , , 40 , , 39 , , 0.2 , , 0.3 , , 9.1 , , 3.6 , , 12.7 , , 2.7 , , 2.6
, - style="background-color: #EAEAEA"
! scope="row" style="text-align:center" , 2003
File:2003 Events Collage.png, From top left, clockwise: The crew of STS-107 perished when the Space Shuttle Columbia disintegrated during reentry into Earth's atmosphere; SARS became an epidemic in China, and was a precursor to SARS-CoV-2; A des ...
,
, 18 , , 22 , , 12 , , 10 , , 195 , , 86 , , 281 , , 88 , , 51 , , 0.5 , , 0.5 , , 8.9 , , 3.9 , , 12.8 , , 4.0 , , 2.3
, -
! scope="row" style="text-align:center" , 2004
2004 was designated as an International Year of Rice by the United Nations, and the International Year to Commemorate the Struggle Against Slavery and its Abolition (by UNESCO).
Events January
* January 3 – Flash Airlines Flight 6 ...
,
, 18 , , 25 , , 12 , , 10 , , 302 , , 197 , , 499 , , 131 , , 57 , , 0.5 , , 0.4 , , 12.1 , , 7.9 , , 20.0 , , 5.2 , , 2.3
, - style="background-color: #EAEAEA"
! scope="row" style="text-align:center" , 2005
File:2005 Events Collage V2.png, From top left, clockwise: Hurricane Katrina in the Gulf of Mexico; the Funeral of Pope John Paul II is held in Vatican City; "Me at the zoo", the first video ever to be uploaded to YouTube; Eris was discovered in ...
,
, 18 , , 24 , , 18 , , 10 , , 338 , , 252 , , 590 , , 135 , , 58 , , 0.8 , , 0.4 , , 14.1 , , 10.5 , , 24.6 , , 5.6 , , 2.4
, -
! scope="row" style="text-align:center" , 2006
File:2006 Events Collage V1.png, From top left, clockwise: The 2006 Winter Olympics open in Turin; Twitter is founded and launched by Jack Dorsey; The Nintendo Wii is released; Montenegro 2006 Montenegrin independence referendum, votes to declare ...
,
, 18 , , 22 , , 7 , , 11 , , 344 , , 253 , , 597 , , 145 , , 73 , , 0.3 , , 0.5 , , 15.6 , , 11.5 , , 27.1 , , 6.6 , , 3.3
, - style="background-color: #EAEAEA"
! scope="row" style="text-align:center" , 2007
File:2007 Events Collage.png, From top left, clockwise: Steve Jobs unveils Apple's first iPhone; TAM Airlines Flight 3054 overruns a runway and crashes into a gas station, killing almost 200 people; Former Pakistani Prime Minister of Pakistan, Pr ...
,
, 18 , , 25 , , 11 , , 9 , , 360 , , 336 , , 696 , , 170 , , 94 , , 0.4 , , 0.4 , , 14.4 , , 13.4 , , 27.8 , , 6.8 , , 3.8
, -
! scope="row" style="text-align:center" , 2008
File:2008 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: Lehman Brothers went bankrupt following the Subprime mortgage crisis; Cyclone Nargis killed more than 138,000 in Myanmar; A scene from the opening ceremony of the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing; ...
,
, 18 , , 22 , , 5 , , 4 , , 268 , , 345 , , 613 , , 128 , , 79 , , 0.2 , , 0.2 , , 12.2 , , 15.7 , , 27.9 , , 5.8 , , 3.6
, - style="background-color: #EAEAEA"
! scope="row" style="text-align:center" , 2009
File:2009 Events Collage V2.png, From top left, clockwise: The vertical stabilizer of Air France Flight 447 is pulled out from the Atlantic Ocean; Barack Obama becomes the first African American to become President of the United States; 2009 Iran ...
,
, 18 , , 22 , , 7 , , 4 , , 286 , , 310 , , 596 , , 106 , , 76 , , 0.3 , , 0.2 , , 13.0 , , 14.1 , , 27.1 , , 4.8 , , 3.5
, -
! scope="row" style="text-align:center" , 2010
File:2010 Events Collage New.png, From top left, clockwise: The 2010 Chile earthquake was one of the strongest recorded in history; The Eruption of Eyjafjallajökull in Iceland disrupts air travel in Europe; A scene from the opening ceremony of ...
,
, 18 , , 22 , , 4 , , 4 , , 271 , , 335 , , 606 , , 103 , , 103 , , 0.2 , , 0.2 , , 12.3 , , 15.2 , , 27.5 , , 4.7 , , 4.7
, - style="background-color: #EAEAEA"
! scope="row" style="text-align:center" , 2011
File:2011 Events Collage.png, From top left, clockwise: a protester partaking in Occupy Wall Street heralds the beginning of the Occupy movement; protests against Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi, who was killed that October; a young man celebrate ...
,
, 18 , , 17 , , 1 , , 1 , , 180 , , 194 , , 374 , , 70 , , 58 , , 0.1 , , 0.1 , , 10.6 , , 11.4 , , 22.0 , , 4.1 , , 3.4
, -
! scope="row" style="text-align:center" , 2012
File:2012 Events Collage V3.png, From left, clockwise: The passenger cruise ship Costa Concordia lies capsized after the Costa Concordia disaster; Damage to Casino Pier in Seaside Heights, New Jersey as a result of Hurricane Sandy; People gather ...
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, 18 , , 22 , , 5 , , 6 , , 282 , , 278 , , 560 , , 124 , , 64 , , 0.2 , , 0.3 , , 12.8 , , 12.6 , , 25.5 , , 5.6 , , 2.9
, - style="background-color: #EAEAEA"
! scope="row" style="text-align:center" , 2013
File:2013 Events Collage V2.png, From left, clockwise: Edward Snowden becomes internationally famous for leaking classified NSA wiretapping information; Typhoon Haiyan kills over 6,000 in the Philippines and Southeast Asia; The Dhaka garment fact ...
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, 18 , , 23 , , 5 , , 4 , , 341 , , 289 , , 630 , , 127 , , 107 , , 0.2 , , 0.2 , , 14.8 , , 12.6 , , 27.4 , , 5.5 , , 4.7
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! scope="row" style="text-align:center" , 2014
File:2014 Events Collage.png, From top left, clockwise: Stocking up supplies and personal protective equipment (PPE) for the Western African Ebola virus epidemic; Citizens examining the ruins after the Chibok schoolgirls kidnapping; Bundles of wat ...
,
, 18 , , 25 , , 1 , , 5 , , 328 , , 279 , , 607 , , 132 , , 111 , , 0.0 , , 0.2 , , 13.1 , , 11.2 , , 24.3 , , 5.3 , , 4.4
, - style="background-color: #EAEAEA"
! scope="row" style="text-align:center" , 2015
File:2015 Events Collage new.png, From top left, clockwise: Civil service in remembrance of November 2015 Paris attacks; Germanwings Flight 9525 was purposely crashed into the French Alps; the rubble of residences in Kathmandu following the Apri ...
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, 18 , , 7 , , 1 , , 0 , , 74 , , 66 , , 140 , , 37 , , 25 , , 0.1 , , 0.0 , , 10.6 , , 9.4 , , 20.0 , , 5.3 , , 3.6
, - class="sortbottom"
! colspan=3, Career
! 300
! 93
! 86
! 3752
! 3308
! 7060
! 1556
! 1003
! 0.3
! 0.3
! 12.5
! 11.0
! 23.5
! 5.2
! 3.3
References
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1983 births
Living people
All-Australians (AFL)
Port Adelaide Football Club players
Port Adelaide Football Club Premiership players
Port Adelaide Football Club players (all competitions)
John Cahill Medal winners
Glenelg Football Club players
Australian rules footballers from Adelaide
Kane
Brighton Districts and Old Scholars Football Club players
People educated at Sacred Heart College, Adelaide
One-time VFL/AFL Premiership players