Kane Cornes has blasted the AFL’s decision to withhold player weights from the official 2024 season guide, declaring “the world has gone so soft”.
Cornes revealed the information on SEN Afternoons on Friday before AFL Record editor Ash Browne revealed that it was a new AFL policy not to reveal player weights.
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“They’ve decided in this day and age it is inappropriate for weights to public matter, in a publication like the season guide,” Browne said.
“They would say that people support that it’s not appropriate to publish weights and that it’s private information now.”
The move brings the AFL into line with the AFLW, which already doesn’t publish the information.
But the decision has gone down like a lead balloon for Port Adelaide 300-gamer Cornes, who savaged the decision, arguing that the player’s body is their job and should be public information.
“Remember in 2021 the AFL banned perspective draftees from getting their skinfolds done at the draft combine for mental health reasons and treading carefully ...
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