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Graham Cornes OAM, is a former Australian Rules footballer, inaugural Adelaide Crows coach and media personality. He has spent a lifetime in AFL football as a successful player and coach, culminating in his admission to the Australian Football Hall of Fame in 2012.

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Cornes: Pre-season sign the Crows have what the Power don’t

AFL pre season has only just started but SA footy stalwart Graham Cornes has already found a sign the Crows are switched on, and are leaving the Power in their dust.

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Graham Cornes on Wildcard Round art

Cornes: Wildcard Round is the best thing the AFL has done in years

The Adelaide Crows must have pictures of someone at AFL House given parts of their fixture next year, Graham Cornes says. But he’s saved his biggest praise for Wildcard Round.

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MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA - JUNE 29: Daniel Curtin of the Crows in action during the 2025 AFL Round 16 match between the Richmond Tigers and the Adelaide Crows at the Melbourne Cricket Ground on June 29, 2025 in Melbourne, Australia. (Photo by Michael Willson/AFL Photos via Getty Images)

Cornes: Big reason high-flying Crows fans should be scared

It’s a fantastic time to be a Crows fan but history suggests that’s a bad omen, writes Graham Cornes.

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Football 2012 staff journalist dinkus headshots - Graham Cornes, Mark Ricciuto and Warren Tredrea. Picture: Reed Sarah

Cornes: I’m happy to have Tredders as a mate

The wolves are coming for Port legend Warren Tredrea after his controversial court case and podcast episode. But Graham Cornes is happy to be his mate. Here’s why.

Giants James Peatling and Suns' Touk Miller during the AFL Gather Round match between the GWS Giants and Gold Coast Suns at Mount Barker, Adelaide on April 7, 2024. Photo by Phil Hillyard (Image Supplied for Editorial Use only - **NO ON SALES** - Â©Phil Hillyard )

Cornes: It may be the silly season, but early signs are good for Crows

The AFL’s silly season is only just beginning. But Graham Cornes says if the early results are any sign, Crows fans can get excited about 2025.

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ADELAIDE, AUSTRALIA - NewsWire Photos FEBRUARY 28, 2024: Port Adelaide football player Sam Powell-Pepper outside his lawyers office after a tribunal hearing where he was charged with a high bump on Adelaide player Mark Keane. Picture: NCA NewsWire / Brenton Edwards

Cornes: Spooked AFL missed key detail in Powell-Pepper over-reaction

Anyone with half a football brain can see that Powell-Pepper’s initial aim was not to bump, writes Graham Cornes.

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Neil Kerley as a five year old - and decades later, with his trusty axe.

Cornes: Sadness in the eyes of SA footy’s toughest man

An old photo of Neil Kerley depicts a sadness behind the eyes of SA footy’s toughest man. Graham Cornes remembers his mentor, revealing, at 88, ‘Knuckles’ was still cutting his own wood.

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Port Adelaide captain Tom Jonas speaks to the media ahead of Showdown 51 on Friday night. Pictured on March 28th, 2022, at Adelaide Oval. Picture: Tom Huntley

Being booed off ‘will burn inside Port players’

Port Adelaide chairman David Koch has responded to the club’s 0-2 start while captain Tom Jonas and his players have extra motivation for the Showdown.

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Taylor Walker has been blocked from playing in the Crows' pre-season games.

Racism saga: Why AFL nixed Tex pre-season hopes

With Taylor Walker suspended until round 4 over last season’s racism controversy, Adelaide asked the AFL if he could play in pre-season games. Here’s why the answer was “no”.

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Marlion Pickett of the Tigers holds the Australian Football League 2019 Premiership Cup after winning the 2019 AFL Grand Final between the Richmond Tigers and the GWS Giants at the MCG in Melbourne, Saturday, September 28, 2019. (AAP Image/Michael Dodge) NO ARCHIVING, EDITORIAL USE ONLY

Cornes’ sport moment of the year

From Glenelg snapping its SANFL premiership drought to the miraculous story of Marlion Pickett, Graham Cornes has named his favourite sport moment of the year.

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