Hell will freeze over before Graham Cornes swallows his pride and admits that marches from the mall and INXS sing-a-longs are simply the cherry on top in all of this. The club turned the corner the day it said goodbye to funk squads and fantasies of "Southern Power", and began embracing and appealing to it's traditional heartland again.
I'm fine with him doing this, it's that attitude that will be the downfall of the SANFL for example. When push comes to shove, we sure as hell won't be helping them.
It will be soon, the SANFL are on borrowed time. Any money gained as a result of AAMI's sale will go to the executives pockets and disappear leaving them with their hand out crying foul. Their time will come.
They'll hide behind "MUH GRASS ROOTS FOOTY, MUH COMMUNITY" but by then, they would have burned every single bridge they ever had.