Football commentator Kane Cornes has struck a blow north of Melbourne over a sporting event he says was “ridiculous”.
Football commentator Kane Cornes has struck a blow north of Melbourne over a sporting event he says was “ridiculous”.
The Kangaroos are at their lowest level after suffering the club’s worst defeat to Geelong in 41 years during a 112-point attack Saturday night.
As statistics guru @sirswampthing revealed on Twitter, it was the club’s 11th consecutive defeat by 47 points or more. No other club in league history has lost more than seven games in a row by 47 or more points, even the pathetic GWS Giants team when the club first entered the competition.
His loss to Geelong comes after a week when reports suggested the club were at a breaking point in anticipation of coach David Noble being sacked following a quick review by the club’s football department.
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Rumors continue to run that West Coast coach Adam Simpson has been tackled by kangaroos and offered him the job as head coach.
The club got worse again on Sunday with Cornes making a scathing assessment of when they made a classy guard of honor for Cats star Mitch Duncan, who was playing his 250th game, was presided over by his companions Tom Hawkins and Joel Selwood. and encouraged by the rest of the staff.
While the Geelong players stayed behind Duncan to let him lead first off the ground, the North Melbourne players lined up and applauded the 31-year-old.
“Why would North Melbourne line up for 250? They just suffered one of the worst casualties in the club’s history, they’ve had 25 out of 50, that’s 250,” he said. Sunday football show.
“He doesn’t retire, it’s not 300, it’s 250 and they’ve been left off the ground to line up with a player who was just destroyed.
“This is ridiculous. Get off the ground and start working on how you will improve.
“I could not believe it”.
Tigers star Nathan Brown said the defeat was an “accusation” at the club.
Carlton champion Marc Murphy called the Kangaroos players “witch hats.”
Football journalist Damian Barrett reiterated previous reports that Noble will be fired.
“They’re a horribly broken football club,” he said.
“Historically, inept. It can’t get any worse, but it keeps getting worse. “
The club has only one win this season and rumors surround a fracture in the locker room, while there is also mystery about the future of No. 1 draft pick Jason Horne-Francis.
Longtime AFL manager Geoff Walsh has been hired to review the club’s operations, the same one responsible for the review that led Carlton to sack David Teague in 2021.
Veteran reporter Caroline Wilson suggested Monday night that the review is in fact a “successful job” at Noble.
“I don’t think David Noble will survive the season,” Wilson told Channel 9 Footy Classified.
“I don’t think I knew Geoff Walsh would come in until shortly before (the decision was made).
“They don’t call it a review, but it’s a complete review. It’s a good job and it’s not just aimed at the coach, of course.”
Wilson said Walsh will only be involved with the club part-time for a month.
He Herald Sun’s Jon Ralph told Fox Footy’s On the couch On Monday night, Walsh’s review could be the “evidence” North needed to “advance your coach.”
“It’s been described as a top-down review of the football department,” Ralph said On the couch.
“The expectation is clearly that David Noble is very unlikely to survive.
“There are a lot of problems there, but they are basically hidden from view: game plan, morale, development.
“Carlton will tell you that they brought Geoff Walsh last year for his review and anyone who knows will know that the decision was made long before David Teague was eliminated. Probably something similar here.”
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