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Kane Cornes outlines why Port Adelaide loves to hate Richmond in the AFL

Kane Cornes,
The Advertiser
27 June 2017


IF THERE is one team in the AFL Port Adelaide loves to beat it is Richmond.

Make no mistake these two teams cannot stand one another.

Saturday night’s game at the Adelaide Oval is Port Adelaide’s biggest home and away game in the last two years with the winner in pole position to secure a top four finals berth in 2017.

Seven-time Port Adelaide premiership player Tim Ginever says the animosity dates back to Port Adelaide’s first pre-season game in 1997.

Port enforcer Darryl Poole physically intimidated his Richmond opponents catching them off-guard in the usually bruise-free pre-season match.

Irate Richmond officials contacted Port on the following Monday to complain about Poole’s actions and asked for some background on the aggressive centre half-forward.

The Port officials responded by telling Richmond: “If you don’t know who he is, you’ll soon find out because this guy is seriously tough.”

Word filtered down to the Port Adelaide playing group that Richmond complained and the disdain between the playing groups was born.

When Mark Williams took over he built on the rivalry, rousing his players for Richmond clashes more than any other.

Perhaps dating back to his playing days at Collingwood, Williams felt Richmond had an air of arrogance and walked around like rockstars despite having achieved nothing.

Troy Chaplin’s defection from Port Adelaide to the Tigers at the end of 2012 added to the animosity. Upon his departure he penned an email to the entire Port playing group, criticising the club and its culture.

Not done yet, Chaplin celebrated a late goal in round 17, 2014 with an animated aeroplane and emotional tugging of the Richmond guernsey.

The actions agitated Port skipper Travis Boak who said the next day: “I hope he (Chaplin) is enjoying his season.”

That win over Port was the third of a nine-game winning streak that saw Richmond finish eighth and face Port in an elimination final at the Adelaide Oval.

You know the one, when captain Trent Cotchin won the toss and opted to kick into the breeze. The Power booted the first seven goals to end the contest before quarter-time.

Early in the first term, Chaplin slipped over in the goal square, costing Richmond a goal and the Port players and fans didn’t miss the chance to remind him of his defection, subsequent email and round 17 antics.

The Power group looked on with raised eyebrows the next day as Cotchin fronted a press conference dressed in a Kiss outfit for the team’s Mad Monday celebrations.

It had Port questioning the Tigers’ priorities following a humiliating loss.

Both teams have recorded eight wins for the season and only percentage separates them on the ladder. Defensively the two sides are ranked number one and two in the competition.

Port concedes only 77 points per game which ranks them first in the competition. Richmond is ranked second conceding 78.

Paddy Ryder has had a major influence around the stoppages with the Power giving up just 24 points from stoppages which is the fewest in the competition.

Conversely Richmond ranks number one in the competition for forward-half turnovers.

Richmond has been my surprise-packet of season 2017, with Damien Hardwick reinventing himself as a coach and rejuvenating his side’s game plan.

Similar playing styles have the making for an epic battle.

Both teams are delivering manic pressure and have the ability to lock the ball in their forward line. They are both experts in creating forward-half turnovers.

There are tantalising match-ups across the ground headlined by Alex Rance and Charlie Dixon, Brad Ebert and Dustin Martin and Tom Jonas taking on Richmond spearhead Jack Riewoldt.

Richmond has not won a final since 2001 and would be treating this game as a dress rehearsal should it qualify in 2017. Port Adelaide still has not beaten a team perched in the top-eight this year.

The gloves are off, bring on Saturday night.

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Wow  :-\ would be fair to say majority of clubs feel the same way as Port Adelaide do about us. It's obvious.
I hope our players read it and use it, it's certainly a slap in the face and one they should return on the feild by winning.
Can guarantee Port will instigate a scuffle/melee early in the piece, may even target Rance to get him off side.
The anywhere, anytime Tigers.
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Port who? 
Lots of people name their swords......

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Hope we smash these bogans from South Australia.
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Cornes is a stuffwit just like his old man.  Adelaide bogan that is too stupid to realise Adelaide is a craphole

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All teams love to hate us, it gives them relevance especially minnows like Port.
With their stupid little song, biggest pack of wankers!
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Port who?

That is almost the most ridiculous basis for a rivalry in the history of professional sport.
Just a laughable column, Kane either needs to stop watching the real housewives franchise for inspiration or join it to be the star attraction
“I find it nearly impossible to make those judgments, but he is certainly up there with the really important ones, he is certainly up there with the Francis Bourkes and the Royce Harts and the Kevin Bartlett and the Kevin Sheedys, there is no doubt about that,” Balme said.

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...and yet the Cornes family is most closely associated with Glenelg....who have the same colours, guernsey & mascot as Richmond...
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FJ is the only one that makes sense.

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Would have thought Showdowns would be the one they want to win most

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Must be tough having a one sided rivalry  LOL
Lots of people name their swords......

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We are everybody's grand final.

Smashing post....
"Tradition is not the worship of ashes, but the preservation of fire." 

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FJ is the only one that makes sense.

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Stupid Old campaigner.

Would like to see him talk up this rivalry before a game at the MCG, halfwit.
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We are everybody's grand final.

That explains why we have been so sh!+ for 35 years.
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Richmond forward Jack Riewoldt says history but no hate with Port despite Kane Cornes’ commentary

Richard Earle,
The Advertiser
June 28, 2017 10:40am



RICHMOND forward Jack Riewoldt has failed to disguise the Tigers’ dislike of Port Adelaide but questioned whether Kane Cornes is positioned to comment on ‘hate’ between the two clubs.

Premiership on-baller Cornes in his weekly column for The Advertiser revisited the origins of bad blood between the Power and Richmond stretching back to a pre-season trial in 1997.

Animosity has grown from the moment utility Darryl Poole roughed up the Tigers in an infamous 1997 trial game through to Power premiership coach Mark Williams branding Richmond as arrogant without reason.

Add Troy Chaplin’s acrimonious 2013 switch from Alberton to Punt Road with accompanied email exchanges and on-field incidents and the bitterness continues to Saturday night’s finals shaping clash at Adelaide Oval.

“Kane Cornes is speaking on behalf of the Port Adelaide footy club?” asked Riewoldt on AFL 360.

A bristling Riewoldt, added: “We beat them in his 300th game too.”

The winner of Saturday night’s clash in Adelaide will be on track for a finals finish while making life difficult for the loser. Richmond still owes Port for an embarrassing elimination final loss in 2015 at Adelaide Oval.

“It is an absolute cauldron over there. We have played some tight tussles over there,” recalled Riewoldt.

Asked if the rivalry ran as deep as Cornes indicated, Riewoldt said there had been some “background stuff”.

“We have played them in some big games, a final, taken Troy Chaplin from them and there was a celebration that didn’t go down too well with Port Adelaide,” conceded Riewoldt.

“All games are big. We have had a little bit of a past but I would have thought Adelaide would be their rival.”

http://www.adelaidenow.com.au/sport/afl/teams/port-adelaide/richmond-forward-jack-riewoldt-says-history-but-no-hate-with-port-despite-kane-cornes-commentary/news-story/6a8fc1ab9cbc5f7213afdd7a79ae0298