When contacted Corin wasn’t prepared to enter into the public domain about the debate currently raging between commentators, spectators, players and coaches, in regard to the new dissent rules.
Interestingly, while not wanting to be quoted, he did recall an incident that involved Chris Scott and the Hawthorn players from 2001.
Corin, the younger son of Paul and Patricia (who still live in Echuca), umpired 122 matches between 1999 and 2005 — including 24 games in 2003 and 25 games in 2004 (five finals in those two seasons).
His retirement, though not at all connected, came in 2005 at the same time as an AFL investigation was launched into fellow AFL umpires Matthew Head and Brett Allen.
A remark attributed to Head, while getting on a plane from Perth to Melbourne, made national headlines and the AFL appointed two police officers to investigate the alleged comments after a St Kilda and Fremantle clash.
The umpires were exonerated and the alleged comment "now I know what it feels like to have a victory" as Head boarded a flight from Perth to Melbourne at 1.30am on the Saturday was never substantiated.
The Dockers won the Friday night match by five points and kicked five goals from free kicks after a week in which Saints coach Grant Thomas had made derogatory remarks about umpires.
Former Victorian and Queensland assistant police commissioner Allan Roberts and ex- policeman Bill Kneebone interviewed several people in relation to the incident, including the umpires, the reporter who made the claims (Channel Nine's Tony Jones) and Nine commentator Eddie McGuire.
Rowe and Darren Morris announced their retirements at a similar time, but insisted the timing was coincidental and had nothing to do with criticisms that had put extra pressure on umpires.
