‘Weak’: Abusive text reignites bitter AFL feud

‘Weak’: Abusive text reignites bitter AFL feud

Former Adelaide Crows captain Taylor Walker and footy commentator Kane Cornes have locked horns once more, this time over an abusive textual content message despatched final weekend.

Cornes acquired a message from Walker’s cellphone on Friday evening at 8.51pm whereas driving his kids residence from an NBL recreation in Adelaide.

“My phone beeped, it was sitting in the car holder. We looked at it and it read: ‘You are a weak c***’,” Cornes stated.

“I was like, ‘My goodness what have I done now?’ I get prank calls a lot, usually from private numbers as people are smart enough to hide their identity.

“I thought I’m going to call it and the boys thought it was hilarious so I did.”

Back in 2019 Walker stated: “I can’t stand him … and not many other people can either.”

Cornes stated Walker and his buddies have tried contacting him earlier than, however stated this time the previous Crows skipper had forgotten to cover his quantity.

“He has pranked me before but he was smart enough to hide his number,” Cornes advised SEN. “I don’t know what I have done (this time).

“I would have thought at his age he may have been more mature than that, particularly with the record he has had recently but clearly on Saturday night Taylor Walker was busy on the phone.”

In 2020, Cornes took a cheeky shot at Walker on The Sunday Footy Show, evaluating shirtless photographs of Walker and Port Adelaide’s Charlie Dixon.

The Crows posted a video of Walker and Rory Sloane at Adelaide Oval having a kick round with Walker taking part in as much as the digicam.

While the remainder of the panellists defend Walker, arguing that the state of their rigs doesn’t have a correlation to how they’re going to play and that he was simply having a little bit of enjoyable.

“These are professional athletes, you can’t let those sorts of standards slip through,” Cornes stated.

But he realised the jig was up and admitted “I was having a bit of fun, but we can tell who’s been training in this period”.

Cornes threatened to “out” an AFL participant who had been abusing him by way of textual content messages as their messages weren’t coming by way of anonymously.

But in response to the put up, Walker took goal with a bitter response to the story, telling Cornes to “Grow up and stop sooking”.

It appeared to reignite the feud between the pair with a few of Walker’s buddies calling Cornes on New Years’ Even with the retired Power nice taking part in the voicemails on his radio present.

“Kane, mate, I’ve heard you’re on the coast there fighting the fires,” one in all them stated.

“There’s some feedback from some of the boys that you’re not pulling your weight … you’re weak as water mate.”

There was additionally the offended alternate on the Sunday Footy Show in 2017 when Walker took goal at “players that come out of the game and don’t have a positive spin on the game because we all love the game of footy”.

Originally printed as Kane Cornes reveals abusive textual content he was despatched from former Adelaide skipper Taylor Walker