Dayne Beams calls out Kane Cornes over Noah Balta criticism
Former Collingwood premiership star Dayne Beams has taken a flamethrower to Kane Cornes in a fiery social media spat.
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Divisive Channel 7 star Kane Cornes has been put on blast by former AFL player Dayne Beams.
The 35-year-old Beams wasn’t happy with the former Port Adelaide player turned media personality over remarks he made in relation to Noah Balta.
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Cornes took aim at the Tigers player over his lacklustre displays throughout 2025 and questioned his long-term deal.
“Who signs these deals, who is responsible for signing these deals,” Cornes said on Sunday night.
“I’m watching this guy play and he genuinely looks like he’s forgotten how to play football. I know there’s been a lack of continuity with his footy because of the curfew and he’s missed some games, but now they’re chucking him forward.
“He genuinely looks like he’s playing another sport and someone has signed him until the end of 2032.
“I’d like some accountability at Richmond, who is going to put their hand up and say ‘we signed this guy until 2032, it has been nothing but a complete disaster’.”
The brutal remarks however didn’t sit well with the Collingwood premiership star who responded to a Channel 7 post on social media.
“Who signed you? I’d like some accountability for that,” Beams commented.
Cornes however wasn’t going to sit by and let the clip go and quickly returned fire by making reference to Beams’ contract record after he was traded back to Collingwood after the 2018 season before playing only nine more games.
“Well you are the expert on clubs butchering trades and contracts. Collingwood still paying you?” Cornes responded.
Not happy to let it go, Beams got the last word in by stating Cornes was an “average” player in the league.
“Don’t be salty about me running rings around you Kane. At your best you were average champion yet now you make comment on players that were 10 times the player you were. Makes sense,” Beams said.
The back and forth with Beams wasn’t Cornes’ only feud of the weekend with the Channel 7 star returning fire on his former Channel 9 presenters.
In what is becoming a weekly affair, Cornes returned serve on Sunday Footy Show host Nathan Brown.
Brown was speaking about Carlton’s Charlie Curnow who was seen high-fiving two Collingwood defenders during their at the MCG on Friday night.
“This incident with Charlie Curnow and this is after three quarter time, maybe I’m old school but high-fiving your opposition and having a smile on your face after you’ve had eight goals to two kicked on you ... I didn’t like it, but maybe that’s just me,” Brown said on Sunday.
Unfortunately for the Channel 9 presenter the footage shown was from before the opening bounce as Curnow was making his way into position.
“If you run a segment called Media-Ocre, you’d wanna make sure it’s actually the right vision,” Cornes said on Channel 7’s The Agenda Setters.
“It was pre-game Browny, it wasn’t three-quarter time. That is unbelievable that not one of those footy experts picked him up on that.”
Originally published as Dayne Beams calls out Kane Cornes over Noah Balta criticism
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