{"id":408026,"date":"2024-06-30T11:33:25","date_gmt":"2024-06-30T11:33:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=408026"},"modified":"2024-06-30T22:06:43","modified_gmt":"2024-06-30T22:06:43","slug":"genuinely-awful-cornes-brutal-reality-check-for-captain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=408026","title":{"rendered":"'Genuinely awful': Cornes' brutal reality check for captain"},"content":{"rendered":"

K\ufeffane Cornes<\/a> has handed Collingwood<\/a> captain Darcy Moore<\/a> a reality check, calling on the defender to stop being "too easy" to play against.<\/p>\n

The Pies went down to Gold Coast by 11 points\ufeff on Saturday afternoon, keeping the Suns undefeated in 2024 at home.<\/p>\n

But it was Moore, who had just 11 touches and one intercept mark, who caught Cornes' eye for all the wrong reasons.\ufeff<\/p>\n

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"I reckon he plays one good game in every six," Cornes said on Nine's Sunday Footy Show<\/em>.<\/p>\n

"I know that sounds harsh, but as a leader of this footy club … I just see it far too often.<\/p>\n

\"Darcy<\/p>\n

"Darcy Moore disappoints me. I've got to be honest about Darcy Moore, the premiership skipper."<\/p>\n

Cornes labelled the 2023 premiership captain \ufeffas an undemanding opponent.<\/p>\n

"Too easy to play against. He just gets his timing wrong," he said.<\/p>\n

"He just can't afford to have genuinely awful games like he did yesterday as the skipper of that club."<\/p>\n

\"Darcy<\/p>\n

Matthew Lloyd noted that Moore's role has naturally become more difficult, due to the shock retirement of 24-year-old Collingwood defender Nathan Murphy on the eve of the 2024 season.<\/p>\n

Murphy was forced to hang up the boots due to excessive head trauma and concussions suffered during his short career, that finished on a high with a premiership last season.<\/p>\n

"It's where Nathan Murphy is a huge loss, because Murphy was that player that allowed for Darcy Moore to play the way he wants to play, because he was such a tight defender," Lloyd said.<\/p>\n

\ufeffBut Cornes isn't convinced Moore has been able to move with the times to cover Murphy's loss.<\/p>\n

\"Cornes<\/p>\n

It means young key forward Billy Frampton has to be thrown back as an extra body in defence.\ufeff<\/p>\n

"I just think they're one key defender short.<\/p>\n

"Just the one intercept mark last night (for Moore).\ufeff He wasn't there to be able to help Billy Frampton, who was so vulnerable one on one.<\/p>\n

"Why don't they put the magnet of the best defender, the captain, on the opposition's best forward?<\/p>\n

\"Darcy<\/p>\n

"But they want him to be this interceptor, which he is not\ufeff."<\/p>\n

The Pies still sit in sixth on the ladder with an 8-5-\ufeff1 record.<\/p>\n

They'll face off against foes Essendon in round 17 at the MCG.\ufeff<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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