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KEN Hinkley and the Power’s leadership group should be applauded for having the courage to not only set elite standards but, more importantly, uphold them at a critical time in the season. Just as Graham Cornes did at the Crows 25 years ago.
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SO former Power champion Kane Cornes thinks Ken Hinkley’s got it wrong suspending Darcy Byrne-Jones for one game for turning up 45 minutes late for a team meeting.
You can’t be serious?!
More power to you, Ken.
We should be applauding him on having the courage to not only set elite standards but, more importantly, to uphold them at a critical time in the 2018 season.
Cornes, the club’s games record holder, says the Power is setting “a dangerous precedent” and he’s right. But he didn’t say Ken was setting the wrong precedent.
It’s nothing new.
Cornes’ father Graham, the inaugural Adelaide Football Club coach, set similar standards at the Crows back in the early ’90s and with outstanding success.
The truth from that era was that players were fined heavily for being late to the airport to catch a flight interstate.
It was $1000 for every minute, as my bank balance reminds me!
I was not alone.
Tony Modra was suspended for missing a training session in an era when players worked and then trained at 4pm or 5pm. Not that the great man worked all that much in those days, unlike today.
It was, however, a second offence for Mods after he missed training before round 1 of the 1994 season.
Graham and I debated long and hard about the ramifications for Mods. I wanted him suspended for a week, Graham didn’t.
Graham won and history shows Mods kicked 13, most of them on fullback of the century, Stephen Silvagni.
Mods often laughs when we talk about this game over a West End.
He recalls I didn’t congratulate him until goal number eight! It is a too good a story to deny!
He wouldn’t be so lucky second time and in Greg Champion’s own words, “Tony Modra went surfing, he’ll be back some day”.
He was. Mods turned out to be a superstar.
Elite standards for their time were set.
Premierships, in time, were won.
Twenty-five years later, I’m surprised we’re even debating the appropriateness of the decision.
Too bloody right he should have been suspended for a week.
The players wanted the professional era. They demanded the professional pay. They must accept the professional standards and the consequences that come with not upholding them.
Byrne-Jones has made a mistake and it cannot be ignored.
The Power are trying to win a premiership and you need absolutely everything going for you.
Any chink in the armour, any double standards any mixed messages can be fatal.
Port Adelaide have not tasted Premiership success for 14 years.
There is no doubt they have made the right call.
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