He came to the rescue at Sydney coach John Longmire who was dissed by Richmond coach Damien Hardwick following the lowest-scoring AFL game in 24 years.

Though Richmond recorded an eight-point win over the Swans, Hardwick stamped the match “horrendous” and accused Swans of poor performance.

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Even Hardwick admitted he had been mean to Swans; hence he apologized to Longmire for the comment. While Cornes somehow feel that Richmond’s coach is getting ahead of himself after an unexpected favorable situation of the club from 2016.

“I’m not sure Damien Hardwick would’ve made those comments in 2016,”

“I’m not sure whether he has got ahead of himself and where he believes he stands in the game.

“Clearly he’s got a lot more respect than he did three years ago, but it never ends well when you start criticizing the opposition, their game style, and the coaching.”

Port Adelaide great Kane Cornes sang his praises for Sydney Swan. Despite the defeat, Cornes pointed out Swan’s tenacity over the misfortune with Richmond notable for walking home with awards during the last year. In the end, he suggested Hardwick fret about his own club rather than being critical on the opponents.

Let’s cut to the flashback where Kane Cornes slammed back at Adelaide Crows captain Taylor Walker on the Sunday Footy Show in 2017. When Taylor Walker pinned negativity out of the footy player, Cornes asked Taylor if he was eyeing for the media circuit at the end of his career. Cornes also argued that Taylor only focused on the unpromising details of players instead of fetching their perks.

“I think you’re angling for a media position at the end of your career, Tex. It’ll be reasonably boring if you’re all just positive and is it fair to say you don’t necessarily see the positive things that are said about you and your club, and you just focus on negative things which all players do when they’re playing?”

Walker replied that he only looked out for positivity-“pretty glass half full.” It’s not doubtful that Walker sounded pissed off. At the same time, Billy Brownless revealed Triple M’s Rush Hour about the moment Walker dubbed Cornes a “d***head” prior to an interview.

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Former Port Adelaide player Kane Cornes who often polled in the Brownlow Medal votes, entered media in 2016. Since then, he has been sharing unflinching feedbacks at his feuds as well as debate prevailing on the AFL matches.

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The shattered AFL dreams led Alex Carey to the new path of the Australian national cricket team.

Since a young age, Carey played midfielder as well as a left-handed batsman in junior cricket- a potential candidate in junior representative teams for both sports.

At 15, he tied up the laces of boots and mixed himself in the hoards of grown men in Glenelg’s reserves SANFL side. One of his mates, Andy Shearer didn’t recognize him until he read Alex was a member of a reserve team on the newspaper. As per Andy, he stood out among others for being a peculiar player to order a sandwich instead of burger and chips and escape a night out to attend the training or practice session the next morning.

Andy cites:

“It wasn’t that he didn’t like going out or socialising, he was just super disciplined,”

“He knew what he wanted to do and what was required to get there. That was it.”

No pain no gain- the ‘2008 AFL under 18 Championships’ included Alex in South Australia’s squad. The same year, he got into the AIS/AFL Academy intake and then the 2009 AFL under 18 Championships, simultaneously. Soon, he was on the radar of Greater Western Sydney, where he bagged the team’s best and fairest award. Howbeit, he was overlooked from the privileges of AFL and didn’t grab the contract by the end of 2011.

Alex Was Left Shattered

Eventually, Alex was left shattered as he rejected on a Redbacks rookie contract and out-turned everything he could for the Greater Western Sydney.

Alex’s older brother Adam revealed his broken AFL dreams:

“He was shattered,”

“He’d spent two years away from home after passing on a Redbacks rookie contract the year before he left and he’d thought he’d done everything he could have to earn a spot on the Giants list.

“That was the hardest part for him I think, knowing that he’d given it his absolute best shot and believing he was good enough, but being told he wasn’t.”

Alex decided for another shot with football, but then-SACA high-performance manager, Jamie Cox, altered his track on cricket. Eventually, he moved on from football heartache and instilled resilience upon the Glenelg Cricket Club for the 2012–13 season. Despite going fifty-fifty for finance job and training session, Alex was punctual ‘in the nets hitting balls’ that got him to List A debut for South Australia in the Ryobi Cup.

But the success didn’t follow him overnight

After the debut, Alex went through a heap of failures including an insufficient 10.1 runs from his first six innings at first-class level. Still, he didn’t lose his patience, leaving out his downhearted 2013/14 season. After all, he is a natural athlete who built a knack in his glovework that turned him into a wicket-keeper.

In the long run, Alex proved adaptability throughout his career from AFL player to batsmen to a wicket-keeper who recorded 375 runs during the 2019 World Cup at an average of 62.50. He secured the fourth spot as the highest run-scorer during the World Cup, joining the troops of Steve Smith, Aaron Finch, and David Warner. No doubt, he will raise the bars for the Delhi Capitals in UAE on September 19.

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The Brazilian-born Australian former AFL player Heritier Lumumba shared his experience of racism during his 10-year stint at the Collingwood Football Club first time in the 2017 documentary Fair Game.

On 09 June 2020, days before the AFL restart, Lumumba released a nine-point statement on Twitter, alleging Collingwood didn’t acknowledge he had the nickname of ‘chimp’ during his playing stint and that he was ostracized for speaking out about club president Eddie McGuire’s racism over on-air comments about former AFL player Adam Goodes.

The Collingwood football club operated from the premise that I was wrong to speak out about McGuire’s racism. “You threw the president under the bus”, Nathan Buckley @cdesilva23 @davidzita1 @maxlaughton @wenzel87 pic.twitter.com/OSzB4UICAD

— Héritier Lumumba (@iamlumumba) June 9, 2020

“Culture of Racist and Sexist Jokes”

On 23 June, the Magpies publicly announced that it would launch an official investigation into Lumumba’s claims of a culture of racist and sexiest jokes at the club through their integrity committee, headed by club director Peter Murphy.

The announcement came hours after the Magpies and Richmond players went on their knee in the middle of the MCG to support the Black Lives Matter movement.

Following the announcement, Lumumba, who has a Brazilian mother and a Congolese father, declared he had no intention to participate in the club’s investigation until it publicly acknowledges his ‘racist’ claims.

The 6-foot-2 Lumumba explained that he had already detailed all the events to board members, club staff, other players, and in a 2017 documentary film. He wrote on Twitter:

“I have no desire to convince Collingwood of a truth that they already know.”

On 05 July, the Magpies announced the appointment of Professor Larissa Behrendt AO to lead its investigation into a full and frank account. Three days later, Lumumba said the processes of Collingwood’s investigations are deeply flawed in a lengthy series of tweets.

The 33-year-old Lumumba, who came to Australia at the age of three, wrote:

“I’ve had an opportunity to read Collingwood’s latest statement re its ‘internal review’, which includes the appointment of Larissa Behrendt. Unfortunately, this process continues to be deeply flawed.”

“Firstly, my claims are not simply about a nickname that has now been confirmed multiple times. This is about me being punished for standing up to racism within my own club — from other players and the president himself.

1/ I’ve had an opportunity to read Collingwood’s latest statement re its ‘internal review,’ which includes the appointment of Larissa Behrendt. Unfortunately, this process continues to be deeply flawed. Let me explain.

— Héritier Lumumba (@iamlumumba) July 7, 2020

He continued:

“The person responsible for sending out media statements about the integrity committee is CFC’s head of PR, Stephen Rielly. Reilley (sic) was one of the key individuals involved in punishing me for speaking out about McGuire’s racism towards Adam Goodes in 2013.”

“Reilly had no shame in telling me that I threw McGuire under the bus. Will he be subject to questioning or investigation by the integrity committee?

He ended his lengthy allegations with:

“Why stop the investigation in 2014? After the release of the doco Fair Game in 2017, CFC’s racism continued. (Eddie) McGuire, (Nathan) Buckley & Reilly (sic) chose to push the story that they were simply unaware of the racism that I faced, and that they were ‘concerned’ for my mental health.”

“12/ These men have actively lied to the media and the public on multiple occasions. No matter what the credentials of this integrity commission are, do we really expect them to magically tell the truth to an internal investigation?”

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Lumumba now lives in Los Angeles with his wife Aja and their son Yala whom they welcomed on 09 April 2019.

He had joined Collingwood in 2004 and left the club at the end of 2014. He finished his 223-game career with Melbourne.

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