{"id":31205,"date":"2016-04-26T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-04-26T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/uncategorized\/graham-cornes-takes-aim-at-umpire-favouritism\/"},"modified":"2016-04-26T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2016-04-26T00:00:00","slug":"graham-cornes-takes-aim-at-umpire-favouritism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/show\/graham-cornes-takes-aim-at-umpire-favouritism\/","title":{"rendered":"Graham Cornes takes aim at umpire favouritism"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Graham Cornes has launched a stinging attack on what he says is long-running favouritism from umpires towards home teams over interstate visitors during AFL matches played in Victoria.<\/h3>\n<p>\u201cThere is a real issue, statistics tell you. When non-Victorian teams go to Victoria the umpiring decisions favour the Victorian teams,\u201d Cornesy told Rowey and Bicks on FIVEAA.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s been happening ever since this national competition\u2019s been running, and it\u2019s been happening particularly since the Crows have been in.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt happens time and time again. Nobody wants to make a big fuss about it. Nobody wants to do anything about it,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<h3>LISTEN TO GRAHAM CORNES HERE:<\/h3>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"no\" height=\"166\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/260951612&amp;color=ff5500&amp;auto_play=false&amp;hide_related=false&amp;show_comments=true&amp;show_user=true&amp;show_reposts=false\" width=\"100%\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Cornes said he believed umpiring decisions cost the Crows in their narrow loss to Hawthorn on Friday night, but said that was no excuse.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou\u2019ve got to put it beyond doubt,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou\u2019ve got to put it beyond umpires, you\u2019ve got to put it beyond bounce of the ball, you have to put it beyond wind shifts that cause the ball to hit the post rather than slip through.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut there\u2019s no doubt there were critical umpiring decisions which cost the Crows badly.<\/p>\n<p>Cornesy conceded umpiring bias might favour home teams, but added \u201cthere\u2019s no doubt its worse in Victoria\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey\u2019ve got to do something about it. To have umpires impact on critical games like that is just not right.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s not so much the free kicks that are paid against you\u2026 but it\u2019s the ones you don\u2019t get.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>SEE ALSO: <a href=\"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/news\/submarine-bid-winner-to-be-named-soon\">PM ANNOUNCES WINNER OF $50B SUBMARINE CONTRACT<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>SEE ALSO: <a href=\"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/sport\/premiership-stars-line-up-to-slam-david-koch\">PREMIERSHIP STARS LINE UP TO SLAM DAVID KOCH<\/a><\/strong><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Graham Cornes has launched a stinging attack on what he says is long-running favouritism from umpires towards home teams over interstate visitors during AFL matches played in Victoria. \u201cThere is a real issue, statistics tell you. When non-Victorian teams go to Victoria the umpiring decisions favour the Victorian teams,\u201d Cornesy told Rowey and Bicks on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":14328,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[247,231],"tags":[],"geo_market":[],"class_list":["post-31205","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fiveaa-sports-show","category-show"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.3 (Yoast SEO v27.3) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Graham Cornes takes aim at umpire favouritism - FIVEAA<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/show\/graham-cornes-takes-aim-at-umpire-favouritism\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Graham Cornes takes aim at umpire favouritism\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Graham Cornes has launched a stinging attack on what he says is long-running favouritism from umpires towards home teams over interstate visitors during AFL matches played in Victoria. \u201cThere is a real issue, statistics tell you. 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