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 night time at 8.51pm whereas driving his kids residence from an NBL sport in Adelaide.
“My cellphone beeped, it was sitting within the automotive holder. We checked out it and it learn: ‘You’re a weak c***’,” Cornes stated.
“I used to be like, ‘My goodness what have I carried out now?’ I get prank calls lots, often from personal numbers as persons are sensible sufficient to cover their id.
“I assumed I’m going to name it and the boys thought it was hilarious so I did.”
Again in 2019 Walker stated: “I can’t stand him … and never many different individuals can both.”
Cornes stated Walker and his mates have tried contacting him earlier than, however stated this time the previous Crows skipper had forgotten to cover his quantity.
“He has pranked me earlier than however he was sensible sufficient to cover his quantity,” Cornes informed SEN. “I don’t know what I’ve carried out (this time).
“I might have thought at his age he could have been extra mature than that, significantly with the file he has had not too long ago however clearly on Saturday night time Taylor Walker was busy on the cellphone.”
In 2020, Cornes took a cheeky shot at Walker on The Sunday Footy Present, evaluating shirtless pictures 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 enjoying as much as the digital camera.
Whereas 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 skilled athletes, you’ll be able to’t let these kinds of requirements slip via,” Cornes stated.
However he realised the jig was up and admitted “I used to be having a little bit of enjoyable, however we are able to inform who’s been coaching on this interval”.
Cornes threatened to “out” an AFL participant who had been abusing him via textual content messages as their messages weren’t coming via anonymously.
However in response to the put up, Walker took intention with a bitter response to the story, telling Cornes to “Develop up and cease sooking”.
It appeared to reignite the feud between the pair with a few of Walker’s mates calling Cornes on New Years’ Even with the retired Energy nice enjoying the voicemails on his radio present.
“Kane, mate, I’ve heard you’re on the coast there preventing the fires,” considered one of them stated.
“There’s some suggestions from a number of the boys that you just’re not pulling your weight … you’re weak as water mate.”
There was additionally the offended alternate on the Sunday Footy Present in 2017 when Walker took intention at “gamers that come out of the sport and don’t have a constructive spin on the sport as a result of all of us love the sport of footy”.
