{"id":38441,"date":"2020-02-18T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-02-18T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/uncategorized\/graham-cornes-talks-about-the-public-sledge-he-s-always-regretted\/"},"modified":"2020-04-15T09:49:17","modified_gmt":"2020-04-15T09:49:17","slug":"graham-cornes-talks-about-the-public-sledge-he-s-always-regretted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/sport\/graham-cornes-talks-about-the-public-sledge-he-s-always-regretted\/","title":{"rendered":"Graham Cornes Talks About The Public Sledge He\u2019s Always Regretted"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Graham Cornes says he rang Malcolm Blight to apologise after sledging then Cats coach Malcolm Blight in the 90s\u2026<\/h3>\n<p>Cornesy\u2019s confession came after the AFLW\u2019s Stacey Livingstone called opponent Tayla Harris \u201cuseless\u201d in a post-game interview last weekend.<\/p>\n<p>Cornesy told the FIVEAA sports show:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cHave you ever sledged somebody publicly, one of your opponents?<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn the AFL system I made a quote about Blighty once, which I regretted. We played at Footy Park and the Geelong team lined up\u2026 I thought the intent was to mock us. I couldn\u2019t work out why they lined them up.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey asked me straight after the game what did you think of it? I said I thought it was really stupid, all it did was fire us up. Then when the comments replayed publicly I thought, oh gosh, that doesn\u2019t read well at all. I rang Blighty and I said, look mate, I\u2019m sorry, I didn\u2019t mean any disrespect but I just didn\u2019t know what you were trying to do with it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI did regret sledging Blighty afterwards.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/video.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2F1395FIVEAA%2Fvideos%2F544002546209340%2F&#038;show_text=0&#038;width=560\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" style=\"border:none;overflow:hidden\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" allowTransparency=\"true\" allowFullScreen=\"true\"><\/iframe>&#13;\n&#13;\n<p>As for the incident, in which Geelong players lined up and waited for Crows players to run onto the ground, Mark Bickley says Blight himself doesn\u2019t know why they did it.<\/p>&#13;\n&#13;\n<blockquote>&#13;\n\t<p><strong>BICKS: <\/strong>\u201cI don\u2019t think he knows. I\u2019ve spoken to him about it. He said they\u2019d played there a lot and hadn\u2019t won and he decided we\u2019ll do something different. He suggested it to Gary Hocking thinking he would say, nah, that\u2019s a stupid idea let\u2019s not do it, and Gary hocking said, yeah, let\u2019s give it a go.\u201d<\/p>&#13;\n<\/blockquote>&#13;\n&#13;\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"100%\" height=\"188\" src=\"https:\/\/embed.acast.com\/roweybicks\/rowey-bickspodcast-17february2020\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"border:none;overflow:hidden;\"><\/iframe>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Graham Cornes says he rang Malcolm Blight to apologise after sledging then Cats coach Malcolm Blight in the 90s\u2026 Cornesy\u2019s confession came after the AFLW\u2019s Stacey Livingstone called opponent Tayla Harris \u201cuseless\u201d in a post-game interview last weekend. 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