{"id":320488,"date":"2023-08-01T04:19:26","date_gmt":"2023-08-01T04:19:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=320488"},"modified":"2023-08-01T05:00:44","modified_gmt":"2023-08-01T05:00:44","slug":"cornes-plea-after-power-staffer-embarrassed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=320488","title":{"rendered":"Cornes' plea after Power staffer 'embarrassed'"},"content":{"rendered":"

K\ufeffane Cornes<\/a> has urged Port Adelaide<\/a> to stick by under-fire club doctor Mark Fisher despite his erroneous concussion call involving Aliir Aliir<\/a> at the weekend.<\/p>\n

Port is expected to receive a hefty fine from the AFL after the club failed to conduct a SCAT5 test on Aliir after his collision with teammate Lachie Jones<\/a> in Saturday night's showdown against Adelaide. \ufeff<\/p>\n

Fisher has since admitted that he and Port's medical staff made a mistake by allowing Aliir to return to the field without undergoing the crucial test. Both Aliir and Jones have since been put into the concussion protocol by the AFL.<\/p>\n

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Speaking on Nine's Footy Classified<\/em>, Cornes, who played 300 games for the Power, called on the club to stay loyal to Fisher.<\/p>\n

\"ADELAIDE,<\/p>\n

\ufeff"They've admitted that (mistake). Clearly for everyone watching the vision it was obvious he was concussed, so in hindsight they should've reviewed the vision more clearly," he said.<\/p>\n

"They should've ruled him out of the game and done the test, they've put their hand up, but good clubs stick by good people, and Mark Fisher is a good person with a long history at that football club.<\/p>\n

"He's impacted many lives in a positive way. I can vouch for his character. I would trust him with my life, I've certainly trusted him with my kid's life.<\/p>\n

"He has made a mistake. Good clubs stick by good people and that's what Port Adelaide should do."<\/p>\n

Fisher was a part of the group that helped save Cornes' son Eddy's life after he was born in 2006 with heart defects.\ufeff<\/p>\n

\"Power<\/p>\n

Cornes' defence came despite Footy Classified<\/em> showing numerous instances over the past two seasons where Port players were allowed to continue playing after suffering head knocks.<\/p>\n

Essendon great Matthew Lloyd said Fisher would be "devastated" in the wake of the incident.\ufeff<\/p>\n

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"The club should be embarrassed with the way it's been handled, particularly in this current climate," he told Footy Classified<\/em>.<\/p>\n

"I could understand maybe a year ago, two years ago, three years ago."<\/p>\n

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K\ufeffane Cornes has urged Port Adelaide to stick by under-fire club doctor Mark Fisher despite his erroneous concussion call involving Aliir Aliir at the weekend. […]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":320490,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320488"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=320488"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320488\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":320493,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320488\/revisions\/320493"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/320490"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=320488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=320488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=320488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}