After this weekend, you wouldn't think they'd be feeling too arrogant, over in Adelaide. But seems they can't help themselves. Just received this email from a 'mate' in Adelaide (don't you hate opening your emails on Mondays after we've lost??):

http://www.news.com.au/adelaidenow/story/0...6-12428,00.html

And there is a great picture to go with it, but I can't get it electronically

Crow

It's a most offensive little article, by Graham Cornes of all people. Here's some snippets:

By any definition, the Melbourne Football Club is a basket case.

The AFL, flush with broadcasting revenues, continues to prop up these ailing clubs and artificially sustain their images and their culture. In the shrinking world of corporate rationalisation, they should long ago have merged, moved or disappeared. Stynes brings a new board, a new direction, a new passion and integrity to the position, but he won't be able to save them.

Melbourne needs more than 150 years of glorified history that is now totally irrelevant to its current circumstances. Both clubs, despite Brayshaw's charisma and Stynes' passion and integrity, are doomed.

As they should be, because Victoria does not deserve to have 10 teams in a truly national competition.

Yeo proposes to move two of the struggling Victorian teams, obviously Melbourne and North Melbourne, to the west coast of the USA, say Los Angeles and San Francisco.

Absolute arrogant crap. Thankfully both Adelaide sides got a dose of humble reality at the weekend. And we can actually thank Port Adelaide for teaching us something about the Victorian game of football:

Port writes manual, 'Playing Cats for Dummies'

PORT ADELAIDE has now provided the competition with the perfect template. For the second time in nine months, Port has shown everyone how not to beat Geelong.

http://www.realfooty.com.au/news/news/port...3468242295.html

Pricks.

Haha Graham Cornes. The epitome of a South Australian nuff-nuff if ever there was one.

Anyone know whether this waste of space has a contact address?

Wouldn't mind giving this [censored] a history lesson. The only one who is irrelevant is him and his opinions.

Divert the attention away from the fact that one SA club lost the Grand Final by 100 points, while the other has failed miserably to capitalize on their ladder position in the last few seasons. Pathetic.

His team is in a two team state, yet we average higher home attendences. STFU Cornes you old [censored].

Anyone know whether this waste of space has a contact address?

Wouldn't mind giving this [censored] a history lesson. The only one who is irrelevant is him and his opinions.

Divert the attention away from the fact that one SA club lost the Grand Final by 100 points, while the other has failed miserably to capitalize on their ladder position in the last few seasons. Pathetic.

Glad you asked you can leave feedback on the article here:

http://www.news.com.au/adelaidenow/story/0...submit-feedback

I was tempted to cut-and-paste your excellent critique ("Divert the attention away from the fact that one SA club lost the Grand Final by 100 points, while the other has failed miserably to capitalize on their ladder position in the last few seasons. Pathetic.") but thought you should have the pleasure.

Give it to Cornes & co!

(and actually it was a 119 points losing margin in the Grand Final)

I thought the bit about putting a team in the US was a joke.

It's a little disturbing if it's not...

Spoken with all the authority of a [censored] who hid under the bed until he was 31 years of age, came to Melbourne in 1979 amidst great fanfare and played out a glorious 5 game career with North then coached a one team town to a 43/1/45 record.

What a sad little man Cornesy is. Very easy to be big headed in a 2 team country town. I feel sorry for him.

I hope Stynesy reads it and files it away. Bad Karma Graeme

I find the suggestion by Cornes that we relocate to the west coast of the USA even more insulting than Kennett's Gold Coast. After all everybody knows Kennett's [censored] sense of humour.

I hope lots of Demonlanders give them South Orstralians heaps to think about, you can send them your 'best wishes' by going here:

http://www.news.com.au/adelaidenow/story/0...submit-feedback

I doubt very much my comment will get published.

The good people of Adelaide will surely censor my thoughts on the fact that old Cornes gets a public arena to discuss the insane dribbles of his mind, with absolutely no reason or fact

Quite frankly Id deck this C for the impertenance of being so disrepectful to... YEO.. how demeaning to infer of him as a basketcase !! Deplorable. Just shows what a waste of space this excuse for faecal matter is.

You can leave a comment below the article.

Give that old [censored] a piece of your mind.