Want to be an AFL media personality? It's easy — just follow the four-step Kane Cornes plan.
Look up which teams that lost on the weekend.
For each of the teams, come up with a reason why either:
a) It's the players' fault. They're too lazy. Don't train hard enough. Don't put in enough effort!
b) It's the players' fault. They're not skilled enough!
c) It's the coach's fault. Bad tactics. Bad strategy. He's allowing those players to be lazy!
d) It's the recruiter's fault. They picked/traded for the wrong players!
Get your producers to find a passage of play, interview, or press conference you can say backs up your claim.
Go on TV or radio and say what you think confidently, as if you're really pissed off about it.
Yeah, the older Richmond players didn't show enough effort. You really don't care — you used to play for Port Adelaide after all.
But you pretend you do on TV and the radio, because it makes great content.
@ajsadauskas@afl the worst part about Cornes isn’t his hatred of the Tigers, or his irrational vendettas against certain players, or even that he’s basically just a clickbait machine. It’s that he’s still an All Australian selector FFS!
Smashed by a fairly ordinary Hawthorn side, with some big injuries including Day, Lewis, Jiath, Wingard, and Breust.
The big question: Is the issue North's list? Or has the game gone past Clarko as a coach?
"Meanwhile, North Melbourne coach Alastair Clarkson concedes his side is still a long way off the pace after forecasting the match would be an indicator of where his rebuilding outfit sits in its development.
"He was left in no doubt and North has now lost 26 of 27 games since success in Clarkson's first two outings at the helm early last year."
Hawthorn just being utterly outclassed by Gold Coast.
Not sure if the return of Will Day will make a difference or if they need to go back to the draft, but they desperately need another quality midfielder. #AFL@afl
Seven organizations the far right is targeting after the supreme court ban affecting admissions
Last August, #Hello#Alice, an online platform which 🌟offers grants to Black small-business owners, 🌟was
💥 sued by America First Legal 💥( #AFL ), a far-right non-profit formed by the former senior Trump White House adviser #Stephen#Miller.
The lawsuit alleges that Hello Alice’s grant program is unconstitutional, and that it should be accessible to all business owners regardless of race.
Founded in 2022 by Elizabeth Gore and Carolyn Rodz, both of whom are white,
Hello Alice’s grants help Black people across the country purchase commercial vehicles.
Nathan Roberts, a white Ohio resident who owns Freedom Truck Dispatch, a trucking dispatch company,
alleged that he experienced #reverse#discrimination because he was ineligible for the grants.
Roberts filed a lawsuit in August 2023 which argues that he is “suffering past and future injury in fact because he was barred from applying for this grant”.
“We think this case is meritless and sets the nation, and small businesses, back,” Hello Alice executives said in a joint statement.
The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission ( #EEOC ) responded in February by filing an amicus brief with Hello Alice in order to give additional information relating to the case.
👉“Empowering employers to take voluntary measures to remedy past discrimination remains an important component of our nation’s progression toward equal employment opportunity,” the brief reads.
“This court should take care not to hinder such efforts.”
“It’s not over when you lose, it’s over when you quit,” - how Wahgunyah football club, famous for losing 432 to one solitary point, has bounced back after last year's drubbing.
What an inspiring story about community and not winning, but succeeding! #Australia#AFL#Sport
"We know the community is over it", says TAB spokesperson re gambling advertisements during football before 8:30pm. Yes, we are TOTALLY over it, so don't do it!!!
And why, why, why is the AFL encouraging gambling problems by having an official relationship with Sportsbet??? Hasn't the AFL seen the damage gambling has caused for cricket? Clearly they don't care about the damage to people's personal lives by constantly encouraging them to gamble whenever they watch football. #gambling#AFL
Today in Labor History March 30, 1930: Hundreds of thousands of unemployed workers demonstrated in thirty cities. 35,000 marched in New York City and were violently assaulted by the police. At the time, there was virtually no formal aid available for the unemployed or poor. The ruling elite feared that workers would choose the dole over work if given the choice. So, they opposed unemployment insurance. Even the AFL opposed unemployment insurance because it saw itself as the representative of skilled workers only. It didn’t care about unskilled factory workers. The demonstrations were organized by the Communist Party, with the goal of overthrowing capitalism.
@MikeDunnAuthor Umm, a century later, why do you think the railroads had that personal time off/sick leave issue in the Oval Office at the end of the most recent bargaining round?
I like the new Tasmanian team logo except I keep wanting to say Tasma Devils. My mouth can't quite cover the distance in the time alloted to say the full name
Today in Labor History February 23, 1887: The Journeyman Bakers National Union was charted by the American Federation of Labor. Its founder, George Block, was also nominated to head the newly-formed AFL. When he declined, Samuel Gompers was unanimously chosen. Today the bakers’ union is known as the Bakery, Confectionery, Tobacco Workers and Grain Millers International Union. In July 2021, BCTGM struck against Frito-Lay in response to 12-yr workdays, 7-day workweeks, low wages and dangerous working conditions. In August 2021, they struck against Nabisco. And in October 2021, they struck against Kelloggs.