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Harriet Cordner has joined the Dees Women's team as a 'B' Rookie http://www.melbournefc.com.au/news/2016-10-05/cordner-continues-tradition

She will be the 8th Cordner to play for Melbourne.  Her grandfather Don Cordner won a Brownlow and Captained the club.  Two Cordners are in our Team of the Century.

While I'm sneaking in Women's league news, Daisy won the Woman of the Year award, a sort of Brownlow :  http://www.melbournefc.com.au/news/2016-09-29/pearce-named-football-woman-of-the-year

Oh and some new assistant coaches were appointed.  http://www.melbournefc.com.au/news/2016-10-04/assistants-named-for-womens-team

Apologies for gate crashing the main Forum but not many people venture over to the Women's League Forum and I thought these stories were to good to miss especially the Harriet Cordner one.  May she have as distinguished a footy career as her ancestors!

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Unless I am mistaken, her father was in the All-Australian team (for the amateurs)!:lol:

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1 hour ago, Lucifer's Hero said:

Apologies for gate crashing the main Forum but not many people venture over to the Women's League Forum and I thought these stories were to good to miss especially the Harriet Cordner one.  May she have as distinguished a footy career as her ancestors!

Apology accepted but at some stage this thread will have to be moved across go the Women's League Forum because if we keep it in this section the other forum will never take off. 

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7 minutes ago, Salems Lot said:

is she David "Hollywood" Cordner's daughter?

No.

David Cordner's father was Ted Cordner, brother of Don, John and Dennis who all played for the Demons. Ted was a member of Melbourne's 1941 premiership team.

Another member of the family played in a Demonland/Demonology Interforum team that I coached a few years ago. He was quite a good player but alas and apologies, I forget his first name.

The Cordner family legend goes all the way back to 1905 when Ted Senior played a couple of games for Melbourne before joining the University club. He also had a brother and cousins who played for the club. 

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56 minutes ago, Salems Lot said:

is she David "Hollywood" Cordner's daughter?

I get the impression that the Cordner family is quite extensive. I taught with Richard Cordner some years ago. When I asked him if he was related to David he said he thought he might be a second cousin.

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I might ask Ian Cordner tomorrow if Harriet is his daughter? If so, she has good genes.

 

She certainly appears to have his height! 

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4 hours ago, Whispering_Jack said:

No.

David Cordner's father was Ted Cordner, brother of Don, John and Dennis who all played for the Demons. Ted was a member of Melbourne's 1941 premiership team.

Another member of the family played in a Demonland/Demonology Interforum team that I coached a few years ago. He was quite a good player but alas and apologies, I forget his first name.

The Cordner family legend goes all the way back to 1905 when Ted Senior played a couple of games for Melbourne before joining the University club. He also had a brother and cousins who played for the club. 

Jack...I'd love to know whether the Cordnerwho played in the inter forum game was Ian or Chris, both of whom played with distinction for Melb Uni and the Victorian amateurs.

Perhaps it was Rhodes scholar Chris, who is a keen Demon follower and contributor to newspaper articles. I'd be interested  to know if they are  Demonlanders. Perhaps they're reading this!

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19 hours ago, Whispering_Jack said:

Apology accepted but at some stage this thread will have to be moved across go the Women's League Forum because if we keep it in this section the other forum will never take off. 

Anything happening on this?

Though I do notice that posting over there brings the thread into the main threads list on the front page here anyway, so I wonder what purpose a separate forum serves?

As to Ms Cordner's family resemblance, I wanted to post a 'peas from the same pod' reference over there, based on memory of photos seen, but I caught myself up in a miasma of pc doubt. Thanks for your post, Bobby; I'll feel a little more free now!

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1 hour ago, Timothy Reddan-A'Blew said:

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As to Ms Cordner's family resemblance, I wanted to post a 'peas from the same pod' reference over there, based on memory of photos seen, but I caught myself up in a miasma of pc doubt...

What does this even mean? PC doubt for mentioning family resemblance?

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I've heard that Ted Junior,(David's Dad), would probably have won the Brownlow Medal in (?) 1944 or 45, if the award  hadn't been suspended during the later war years.

He was busy finishing his Med Degree, and playing top grade footy as well, and apparently had a great season about then.

He was a highly respected physician at the Alfred Hospital, as well  a modest and likeable fellow.

By the way.....how many Demonlanders know this?

Don Cordner was a GP in Eltham. Part of his job was delivering babies in that area. One of his deliveries was Jack Grimes' Dad(?Mum), from Hurstbridge. That made them Demons supporters. How I wish Neeld didn't wreck Jack's career by making him captain too soon.

I just hope Jack supports the Dees forever. He got his 100 games, so hopefully he'll sire 5 or 6 sons who want to be Demons(but I wouldn't blame him if he directed them elsewhere.)

 

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5 hours ago, deanox said:

What does this even mean? PC doubt for mentioning family resemblance?

No; for referring in any way to the 'looks' of the women players, deano.

And, like I said, I'm now in a more confident position.

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17 hours ago, Jumping Jack Clennett said:

I've heard that Ted Junior,(David's Dad), would probably have won the Brownlow Medal in (?) 1944 or 45, if the award  hadn't been suspended during the later war years.

He was busy finishing his Med Degree, and playing top grade footy as well, and apparently had a great season about then.

He was a highly respected physician at the Alfred Hospital, as well  a modest and likeable fellow.

By the way.....how many Demonlanders know this?

Don Cordner was a GP in Eltham. Part of his job was delivering babies in that area. One of his deliveries was Jack Grimes' Dad(?Mum), from Hurstbridge. That made them Demons supporters. How I wish Neeld didn't wreck Jack's career by making him captain too soon.

I just hope Jack supports the Dees forever. He got his 100 games, so hopefully he'll sire 5 or 6 sons who want to be Demons(but I wouldn't blame him if he directed them elsewhere.)

 

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I think "Rollo" was the poster with the Cordner ancestry from memory.

I was water boy for one match and had a chat.

On 05/10/2016 at 11:35 PM, Jumping Jack Clennett said:

Jack...I'd love to know whether the Cordnerwho played in the inter forum game was Ian or Chris, both of whom played with distinction for Melb Uni and the Victorian amateurs.

Perhaps it was Rhodes scholar Chris, who is a keen Demon follower and contributor to newspaper articles. I'd be interested  to know if they are  Demonlanders. Perhaps they're reading this!

 

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