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KG is going off his head about something said to K. Cornes in the bulldogs game. Does anyone know what was said?

Shits me to tears when KG and cornsey talk about rumours or things like this then don't have the guts to say it :mad:

They do it all the time, if you can't talk about it, don't mention it grrrr:mad:
 
footyfreak said:
KG is going off his head about something said to K. Cornes in the bulldogs game. Does anyone know what was said?

Shits me to tears when KG and cornsey talk about rumours or things like this then don't have the guts to say it :mad:

They do it all the time, if you can't talk about it, don't mention it grrrr:mad:
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Its pretty obviously about Kane and his eldest sons medical condition.
 
Yep it was reported on 10 news, Will Minson sledged Kane about Eddy's condition (with a few expletives thrown in).

Minson has since apologised and Kane isn't pursuing it.
 

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footyfreak said:
what medical probs does he have? I knew both the boys growing up and know Cornsey but haven't seen them in ages.
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Here you go

Kane's son takes priority
Article from: The Advertiser
MICHELANGELO RUCCI

August 08, 2007 02:15am

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SATURDAY, April 21: Kane Cornes leaves the MCG eager to get back to Adelaide, more so than his beachside home, preferring not to savour a significant victory against Collingwood.

This is extraordinary for any Port Adelaide footballer.

SCG, Sunday, May 20: The Power, then the AFL's surprising competition leader, has been defeated by Sydney. Cornes rushes out of the changerooms - leaving behind his team-mates - with some of the SCG grass not dislodged from his hair by a very quick shower.

Adelaide Airport, June 29: Cornes charges through the terminal alongside his older brother Chad. He picks up his Jetstar ticket to Brisbane with everyone noting he had his sternest "game-day face" for the following day's clash with the Lions on early.

Brownlow Medallist Simon Black, Cornes' opponent 32 hours later, would have appreciated the early warning.

The anecdotes go on from a still incomplete year in which one of the AFL's most dedicated - if not intense - footballers has been distracted, but not derailed. And for good reason, on both counts.

On September 6 last year - four days after the Power's season ended with an unsatisfactory 12th placing - Cornes' life was changed. He and his wife Lucy had their first child, son Eddy Jack.

But the usual story of AFL footballers who get a new perspective on life from fatherhood - and are deprived of much-needed sleep by crying babies - is far removed from this one.

Eddy Jack has endured an extraordinary start to his life with rare and complex heart anomalies. And every raced beat of Eddy's heart - that at times has pumped to 240 beats a minute - can stop Kane's.

It is worse when Cornes is out of Adelaide - and Eddy, as has happened five times this winter, is in a ward on the fourth floor of the Women's and Children's Hospital at North Adelaide.

"And the obvious question," says Cornes of his soul-searching, "is should I go? I feel guilty if I don't stay - and when I leave Lucy or her mother behind with Eddy in hospital I think it is not quite fair.

"I just want to be with Eddy all the time."

Eddy Jack is vibrant. It is easy to imagine that he would grow to be a big and strong key-position player in the AFL; a sensational father-son choice for the Power.

His smile is as infectious as his personality that is built on extraordinary courage. His big blue eyes sparkle to mask the so-far untold story.

"Look at him," says Cornes as Eddy eagerly manipulates a mobile telephone, "and you'd say he is physically healthy."

The greatest compliment of Eddy, adds Lucy, came when she stood in a queue at a department store and the man behind her said: "Gee, what a healthy looking boy."

The story is very different.

After 20 weeks of her pregnancy Lucy Cornes went through a routine scan at Ashford Hospital.

"When the doctor came back," said Lucy, "to say the scan showed Eddy's heart was on the wrong side (right) of his body, it was a major shock for us."

Added Cornes: "There was a knot in my stomach."

But the doctors expected Eddy to have no extraordinary health issues after birth. At just 10 days old, there was another scan - and another shock. Another cardiac problem - simplistically, in how the heart moved blood to Eddy's lungs.

There would be two operations - one exploratory, the other to shut off one of the two veins moving blood from the heart to the lungs.

And in between all this another heart issue, the rapid heart beat, emerged.

There have been five stays in hospital - up to five nights - this winter when Eddy's heart has beaten to a fast rhythm, often without explanation. And when Eddy is four, with his heart bigger and the risks smaller, he will have open-heart surgery in Melbourne to correct his heart anomaly.

Until then - and probably beyond - Cornes can be excused if in any interview he treats the notion of "courage" and "inspiration" in AFL football very differently.

He will say it is in his son's approach to life. "He copes with everything - everything - amazingly well," said Cornes. "Even when the doctors are prodding him, testing him, putting tubes in his arm . . .

"He never cries. He never complains. And when he is home and happy, I never take that for granted."

Cornes will add his perspective of life has also been changed by watching the dedication of Eddy's cardiologist Gavin Wheaton and the staff on the fourth floor of the Women's and Children's Hospital.

There is no asking by Kane or Lucy as to why Eddy's life has begun this way. "We were brought to it - we'll be brought through it," says Lucy. "And Eddy was born different to make a difference."

That difference - with the help of Cornes' public profile as an AFL footballer - is to be both physical and emotion. Eddy's story has inspired a charity to remodel the fourth floor of the Women's and Children's.

"There is a never-ending wish list for what can be done to make that hospital floor better," says Lucy.

And then there is the emotional encouragement to be offered to those who follow in Eddy's footsteps.

"By nature," admits Cornes, "I am stressed. No one is more stressed than me. And I never thought I'd have to deal with something like this. But I do. And Eddy does. And Lucy does.

"We feel fortunate that we are in a position to help others and repay the extraordinary children, parents and staff involved with the Women's and Children's."
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terrible form if true. :thumbsd:

from what i remember about will, i thought he's a pretty articulate and respectful fella?
 
Once you cross that white line though, you can become a completely different person.

Completely unacceptable if true though.
 
That's disgraceful from Minson if i'ts true, I'm surprised Cornes didn't react (or did he?).
 
I've always seen Will Minson as a dirty player on field physically, but this is far worse than dropping the knee into someone on the ground etc. Doesn't surprise me though :thumbsd:
 

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You can call someone a carnt or a f%#kwit as much as you like but when you pick on someone kids is pretty low.Just like Selwood slagging off Des Headlands Kids a couple of years back.:thumbsd:
 
Butane said:
So what was actually said?
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Ford Fairlane said:
Yep it was reported on 10 news, Will Minson sledged Kane about Eddy's condition (with a few expletives thrown in).

Minson has since apologised and Kane isn't pursuing it.
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No one but Kornes or Minson will know exactly what was said.
 
It's a bit like Chinese whispers, but according to 7 news, the comment was around Kane being selfish, going to play football when he has a sick kid at home. Something along those lines.
 

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Rory said:
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No one but Kornes or Minson will know exactly what was said.
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I agree it's a taboo subject for a sledge but it might have just been 'You should have stayed home to look after sick kid'. Yes still bad, but not hangable. Mind you it could have been something very terrible as well but Minson has a fairly good reputation and it would be surprising if it was any worse then that.

Who knows? Not us.
 
Seriously this is a storm in a teacup. People saying 'disgrace', etc get some perspective - it's a professional game, you take any psychological edge you can get.

Port supporters with short memories - I'm sure D Hardwick or J Carr never said anything unsavoury to get under their opponents skin..
 
apple said:
Seriously this is a storm in a teacup. People saying 'disgrace', etc get some perspective - it's a professional game, you take any psychological edge you can get.

Port supporters with short memories - I'm sure D Hardwick or J Carr never said anything unsavoury to get under their opponents skin..
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So you think there is no place for decency on a football field? That everything is fair once you cross the line?
 
CaptainDavey said:
So you think there is no place for decency on a football field? That everything is fair once you cross the line?
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No, and that is a ridiculous inference to make from what I said. What he is supposed to have said is hardly indecent.
 

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