Time On: David King weighs into North Melbourne’s Kane Cornes ban
Kangaroos premiership player David King has given his verdict on Kane Cornes’ comments that led to his North Melbourne blacklisting.
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‘Stop going too far’: King
As the fallout from Kane Cornes’ North Melbourne ban continues, his SEN colleague David King has labelled some of his commentary disrespectful.
King had some fun with his polarising Fireball Friday teammate, saying people at the station are “sick of you dragging us into your shit”.
But the Kangaroos premiership player said he thought Cornes crossed the line with his criticism of North Melbourne young gun Harry Sheezel.
Cornes accused Sheezel of stat padding by getting his posessions in non-damaging parts of the ground, labelling that approach ‘Sheezey ball’.
“I think you’ve been disrespectful to a young player of 20 years of age,’’ King said.
“Your topic was strong enough to keep it at just the footy side of the discussion.
“Critique their footy, critique their role, but stop going too far.”
Cornes asked King to clarify which part of his citicism had gone too far.
“I just thought a 20-year-old kid with ‘Sheezey ball’ was a bit too far,” King said.
“Where is the line? Is it 21 (years of age), 23, 25, before you’re allowed to be critical of someone?”, Cornes asked.
King said a disproportionate amount of Cornes controversial footy content seemed to focus on North Melbourne.
“When there’s a whack to be had, you don’t miss them.”
But Cornes was unapologetic, rejecting the notion that he’d been disrespectful.
“Aren’t you the Shinboners, aren’t you the tough rugged Shinboners who stand up to people face to face,’’ Cornes said.
“The runaway Roos I’m calling you.”
King ended the segment with a parody of Billy Joel’s We Didn’t Start the Fire, with his lyrics running through the litany of footy figures Cornes has taken pot shots at and feuded with.
Cornes turned up to work on Thursday night with Channel 7 and was surrounded by security for an outside opener to the broadcast.
And there was even some tension with his fellow commentators Luke Hodge and Brian Taylor when Cornes pointed out Luke Davies-Uniacke had repeatedly turned the ball over.
“Everyone makes mistakes Kane,’’ Hodge said.
Cornes replied: “Doesn’t mean you can’t demand better Hodgey — please.”
Jamarra’s X-rated swipe at Riewoldt
Jamarra Ugle-Hagan has taken a savage swipe at one of his most vocal critics, changing his profile picture on Instagram to an X-rated image of commentator Nick Riewoldt.
The troubled Western Bulldogs forward, who is on leave from the club to deal with personal issues, was slammed by Riewoldt on Channel 7’s The Agenda Setters when he called the situation “a complete disaster”.
The Riewoldt picture he used was from 2010 when the Saints great was embroiled in a nude photo scandal.
Riewoldt has also implored the Bulldogs to cut ties with the forward, saying the 23-year-old’s erratic behaviour, including questionable social media posts and comments meant “you forfeit all rights”.
“There can be real reasons, legitimate reasons (for a leave of absence), but when you’re behaving the way that Jamarra is, you forfeit all rights,’’ Riewoldt said on the program.
“This is the issue. There is no mechanism for clubs to be protected. Not just the clubs but the players, your teammates, with that (behaviour) are actually fronting up day after day doing the work for the cause and you’ve got a teammate that is not buying in and is still taking 5 or 6, 7 per cent of the salary cap with no recourse from the football clubs (to recoup it).
“I hope whoever the new AFLPA CEO is doesn’t just fight for the 1 per cent, they actually fight for the majority that do the work.
“(They are) fighting for the wrong side. Fight for the players that do the work and not the ones that take the piss.
“The trouble is every time you read ‘personal reasons’ for players (absences), there are a number of guys that are legitimate, absolutely … I feel for those guys.”
Ugle-Hagan promoted an appearance he was doing at an Acai shop in Lynbrook on his social media on Thursday.
The Bulldogs revealed this week that the former No.1 draft pick was again taking leave of absence from the club, adding a management plan had been developed with Ugle-Hagan, his family, manager and the AFL.
“Jamarra’s health and wellbeing remains the absolute priority and he will be given whatever time he needs,” Bulldogs football manager Sam Power said. “We will continue to support Jamarra throughout this period.”
Former footy star reveals wild Uber Eats bill
Former Collingwood and North Melbourne forward Jaidyn Stephenson is living a life free of pressure and scrutiny as an airconditioning mechanic.
Stephenson, who won the 2018 Rising Star award with the Magpies, retired at the age of 25.
He revealed in his first year playing AFL he spent $28,000 on Uber Eats.
Former footy star Brendan Fevola declared five years ago that he had racked up a $35,000 bill.
“I lived with Jack Madgen and his girlfriend and they had their chicken and vegies every night and they were six years older than me and understood how life worked,’’ Stephenson said on The Watch podcast.
“Think I cooked twice the whole year, I’d order Uber Eats for lunch, dinner, whenever I needed to. It’s a lesson along the way and geez I had a good time. I probably could have a bit more money than I do but wouldn’t have the same experiences.”
Stephenson said he quit because his dreams changed.
“If you scroll past an article and your head is the main one do you know how hard it is not to click on it,’’ he said.
“It is challenging. It’s probably the toughest part of AFL. I made the decision to retire at 25, that’s a big reason for it. I felt like I achieved what I set out to achieve. My dreams have changed and I don’t need to live my life with the same scrutiny and pressure that I have for the last seven years. Certainly being an airconditioning mechanic is not as stressful at all. I’m happy rocking up to work every day.”
Brayshaw tees off on ‘embarrassing’ MRO
As North Melbourne prepares to challenge the Paul Curtis ban, the club’s former chairman James Brayshaw has unleashed on the AFL tribunal.
Many commentators have blasted the three week suspension handed down to Curtis for his tackle that knocked out Port Adelaide’s Josh Sinn.
But Brayshaw labelled it “nonsense” and “embarrassing” and called for a complete overhaul of the league’s Match Review Officer system, which sees Michael Christian makes a call on each contentious incident, which clubs have the right to challenge at the tribunal.
“What else was (Curtis) meant to do,’’ Brayshaw said on Triple M’s Rush Hour.
“When you look at the vision of it, the outcome no one wants ever, but it’s a contact sport and accidents are going to happen on a football field.
“But his knees, when the player went forward, his knees were on the ground. So it’s not like (Curtis) jettisoned himself forward to drive the player into a position where he got hurt.
It’s just a nonsense three weeks.
“I said this a month ago, blow the whole thing up and start again. It is so broken and it’s embarrassing to our game.”
Cornes locks in Jason Horne-Francis fanboy status after coach snub
Kane Cornes is not budging on his love and admiration for Jason Horne-Francis, taking a bat to anyone critical of the Port Adelaide midfielder’s performance.
Cornes’ pet player was squarely in the gun against North Melbourne with many including Matthew Lloyd and David King suggesting his behaviour needed to change.
Lloyd went as far as suggesting that Horne-Francis turning his back on coach Ken Hinkley was a disrespectful move that warranted being dropped from the team.
“It’s nearly droppable behaviour if your coach is talking to you and you are walking away, not wanting to hear him out,’’ Lloyd said on the Sunday Footy Show.
King said Horne Francis was “emotionally messing with the team” to the point where they had to have a match committee at three quarter-time as leaders Connor Rozee and Zak Butters helped calm him down.
Not once, but twice on Sunday night, Cornes fiercely defended his man on his AFL and Channel 7 shows, saying that clearly “he thought (Hinkley) had finished”.
Sitting in “seat 1A on the Horne-Francis plane”, Cornes doubled down alongside King on SEN breakfast Monday morning, saying his performance was “unbelievable” and he’s “one of the toughest Port Adelaide players that has ever played for the club”.
Josh Giddey, Joe McGuire soak up Easter Monday clash
Josh Giddey has been back in Melbourne, enjoying some footy action and catching up with friends.
The Chicago Bulls basketball star was back at the MCG on Monday in Eddie McGuire’s Jam TV box along with Joe McGuire, Brendan Fevola and Dave Hughes.
He caught up with Collingwood acting captain Nick Daicos and Tom Mitchell last week.
Giddey is a long-time Hawks fan.
Zorko opens up on frosty Fagan chat
Brisbane Lions veteran Dayne Zorko has revealed what really went on between himself and Lions coach Chris Fagan on the bench during the loss to Collingwood.
The pair appeared to have animated exchange at the Gabba but Zorko said it was timid compared to their usual chats.
“That was one of the more timid conversations between me and Christian,’’ Zorko said on Triple M’s Saturday Rub.
“So that was not as heated as what we have had before, trust me. There was not even any expletives between the two of us. It got blown up a little bit but given it’s a Thursday night, it’s a big game, there’s cameras everywhere. We were probably a little bit surprised ourselves how much traction it got.”
Originally published as Time On: David King weighs into North Melbourne’s Kane Cornes ban
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