Graham Cornes

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Graham Studley Cornes OAM (born 31 March 1948 in Victoria, Australia)^[1] is a former Australian rules football player and coach, as well as a media personality with a weekday drivetime sports program that he hosts on Adelaide 5AA with Stephen Rowe.

• Cornes was a champion with the Glenelg Football Club in the SANFL, between 1967-1982. He played mostly at centre half-forward.^[2] In his 317^[3] Club games for Glenelg he kicked 339 goals and won the club best and fairest award three times.
• Captained Glenelg in 1978.
• Member of the premiership team in 1973, taking a spectacular mark in the last minutes of the game and calmly goaling to regain the lead.
• Took a memorable spectacular mark against Norwood in 1977 which is captured in Jamie Cooper's painting the Game That Made Australia, commissioned by the AFL in 2008 to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the sport^[4]
• He originally signed on with the VFL's South Melbourne in Victoria early in his career, but did not play in the VFL until 1979. In the later stages of his career he made his VFL debut at the age of 31 and played 5 games with Ron Barassi's North Melbourne before returning to South Australia after he was dropped from the football team.
• As playing coach with South Adelaide he played 47 games in 1983-1984.

• Represented South Australia 21 times, including captain 1978,
• All Australian 1979, 1980
• Tassie Medallist 1980
• Simpson Medallist 1979

• 1983-1984 South Adelaide taking them to fifth both times.
• 1985-1990 Glenelg winning Premierships in 1985 and 1986 and also taking them to three losing Grand Finals in 1987, 1988 and 1990.
• Cornes had an astonishing record in State of Origin matches, boasting nine wins from eleven matches including six wins from eight matches coaching the South Australia team against Victoria.
• All Australian coach 1987-1988.
• 1991 appointed inaugural coach of the Adelaide Crows in their first year in the AFL, until the end of 1994 when he was replaced by Robert Shaw. His highest result with the Crows was third place in 1993; his worst result eleventh in 1994.

Cornes is now a football media personality, having appeared on the Seven Network's football coverage during the 1990s, and co hosting the FIVEaa Sports Show with first K. G. Cunningham from 1995 to 2008 and now Stephen Rowe, 2009 to current. He has been a long-time New Ltd columnist. He has also coached the All Stars in EJ Whitten Legends Game. Cornes is also the centrepiece of Cornesy's Allstar Rock Band (formerly known as the 5AA Rock-n-Roll Allstars), in which he plays guitar and does some vocals. Other members of this Adelaide-based band are Greg Mallen, Simon Wilson, David Heath, Dean Fioretti, Tim Donovan, and Sharon Beech.

Cornes' sons Chad and Kane became players for the Port Adelaide Football Club in the AFL. He has been married three times,^[5] currently married to Nicole Cornes who he met when she was a secretary at radio station 5AA.^[6] Cornes and Nicole have three daughters.

In 1968, he was drafted under the National Service Act and served in Vietnam as an infantry soldier with the 7th Battalion of The Royal Australian Regiment. He remains active with several veterans groups

• 1977 SANFL Grand Final

• Full Points Footy: Graham Cornes

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