Kane Cornes Opens Up About The Sledge That Made Him Sick

In the wake of the Warner v de Kock blow up, Kane Cornes says he knows how it feels to cop an inappropriate comment.

“I have been on the end of one such sledge,” Kane wrote for SEN, “when one opponent suggested I would be better off at home with my sick and dying son rather than out on the oval playing a game of football.”

“If that opponent wants to know, my son, now aged 11 is doing well, but at the time he was four and in and out of hospital with congenital heart disease.

“I wanted to kill the culprit and it still makes me sick when I relive the story today.

“The same player, only a few years later directed a vile sledge towards my teammate’s mother. I remember my teammate visibly shaking with anger in the change-rooms post game.”

Kane said there was nothing wrong with on-field banter, but it had to remain within acceptable boundaries.

“Sledging is great for the game… It adds another layer.

“But there’s a line, we all know what that line is. Quinton de Kock and perhaps some of his teammates crossed it. They should be embarrassed.”

Reports on Tuesday claimed Warner had directed personal insults at de Kock for an hour prior to the pair’s blow up on the way into their respective change rooms.