Graham Cornes

GRAHAM STUDLEY CORNES OAM.

 

PLAYING RECORD

364 SANFL league games between 1967 and 1984

317 for Glenelg

47 as playing coach for South Adelaide

Premiership player 1973

Glenelg Best and Fairest - 1968, 1971 and 1975

9 times member of the Advertiser Team of the year

22 State games between 1971 and 1982

State captain 1978

Simpson Medal 1979

Tassie Medal 1980

All Australian player in 1979 and 1980

5 VFL games with North Melbourne in 1979 after making VFL debut at age 31

 

COACHING RECORD

Playing coach of South Adelaide 1983 and 1984

Finalists both years

Escort Cup (pre-season/night competition) premiers 1984

Escort Cup runners up 1983

 

Coach of Glenelg 1985 -1990 (inclusive)

SANFL Premiers 1985 and 1986

SANFL Runners up 1987, 1988 and 1990

Finalists all years.

Escort Cup premiers

Escort Cup runners up twice

South Australian State of Origin coach between 1986 and 1999

9 wins, 2 losses (including six consecutive victories against Victoria)

All Australian coach 1987 and 1988

South Australian National Football League coach !986 and 1987

South Australian state country team coach 1984 and 1985

Inaugural coach of the Adelaide Football Club in the AFL 1991 -1994

 

Preliminary Finalists 1993

Foster’s Cup runners up 1994

Awarded the Medal of the Order of Australia (OAM) in 1984 for services to football, and in 1995, having been a playing life member for many years, was awarded Life Membership of the SANFL.

Awarded Australian Sports Medal in 2000 for services to football.

Inaugural inductee into the SANFL Hall of Fame in 2002.

Awarded the Centenary Medal in 2003 for services to the community

National AFL selector for International Series Aust v. Ireland 1999 -2002

Now actively involved in the media as co-host with K.G. Cunningham, of Australia’s highest rating sports/drive programme on 5AA; an Advertiser columnist; and a football commentator for Channel 7.

Has had extensive involvement in the new car retail industry as a dealer principal of successful Mitsubishi and Toyota dealerships, and is currently a non - executive director of Cornes Toyota and Graham Cornes Used Cars, part of the publicly listed ADTRANS group.

Graham served in Vietnam with the 7 th Battalion of the Royal Australian Regiment in 1970, and is still active in several Veterans’ groups. He is patron of the Vietnam Veteran’s Motorcycle Club.

He was the Chairman of the management committee of Foundation Daw Park, at the Repatriation Hospital Daw Park, for 6 years, and is now the Patron of that charity.

Has also an interest in music and plays very low profile rhythm guitar with the 5AA Rock ‘n Roll Allstars.

He is married to Nicole, and they have two daughters: Amy and Charlize. Graham also has two sons, Chad and Kane who play AFL football with Port Adelaide.

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