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Cornes: "Freak" Nas played the greatest minute of football ever
SEN • July 28th, 2025 9:34 am
Nasiah Wanganeen-Milera take a bow. You have produced the “greatest minute of football ever played” by an individual, according to Kane Cornes.
The Saints produced the biggest three-quarter time comeback in the game’s history to beat Melbourne in an utterly bonkers performance at Marvel Stadium.
At the final break that trailed by 46-points before kicking nine unanswered goals to steal the unlikeliest of wins.
Wanganeen-Milera kicked the penultimate goal of the game before the world witnessed the craziest eight seconds.
The sides were locked on 90 points before Wanganeen-Milera who took a phenomenal mark inside 50 before kicking the match-winning goal after the siren.
“It was a disaster until one man and one man only saved the day,” Cornes said on SEN Fireball.
“What Nasiah did may be the greatest minute of football every played in terms of clutch ability.
“The season he has had, everything going on externally, it is phenomenal.
“Thank you, Nas, for saving the round of footy. What a freak.
“It was probably one of the best heads-up IQ play we could see.
“Maybe the most clutch performance since Nick Davis.”
Speculation over Wanganeen-Milera’s future with the Saints has been ongoing for much of the season.
There are reports he has been offered $1.2 million to remain at Moorabbin on a 10-year deal, but what happened at marvel will surely see that number inflate by some margin.
If the Saints can throw $1,7 million offers at Tom De Koning, there’s a bigger cheque needed for their man Wanganeen-Milera.
“I wonder if he sees the legend he could be at this club and think ‘I cant leave now’,” Cornes added.
“How beloved he is, could he leave now? Why would he go to Port? I hope he stays.
“Surely the Saints can pay him more than anyone else, he’s top five in the comp. (This) catapults you into a different stratosphere.”
Cornes’ Fireball co-host David King was equally complimentary of Wanganeen-Milera, but stunned by the collapse of Melbourne.
“For that last minute to play out as it did it baffling,” King said. “For that young man to understand everything that had to happen in real time. I don’t know of another player that age that could do that.
“You need days like this when you’ve been down. Sometimes the fans need nourishment. A reason to continue to keep going. This guy is the most positive thing to happen to St Kilda in a long time.
“They will never forgive or embrace TDK if he comes on a big one and they lose Nas.”
