AFL greats Kane Cornes and Dale Thomas finally address ‘nasty’ feud
AFL greats Kane Cornes and Dale Thomas have finally addressed their lingering, personal feud.
With Cornes defecting from Nine and joining the Channel 7 team last year, the pair sat side by side on the network’s new football show, The Agenda Setters, on Tuesday night (watch the full episode 7plus).
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By continuing you agree to our Terms and Privacy Policy.Veteran journalist Caroline Wilson asked the former stars to explain how it all happened and why, remarking that it was a “baffling” situation.
“I need to address the elephant in the room. I never thought I would see the day that we’d be sitting on the table with these two gentlemen,” Wilson said on Seven’s The Agenda Setters.
“There was only one feud people were talking about in the media last year, let’s relive some of it.”
Wilson then aired a clip of Cornes when he was on Channel 9, taking aim at Thomas, calling him a “part-timer”.
“For the likes of Daisy Thomas and Tony Shaw, who work part-time and they don’t have to do a lot of on-air time, for their big opinions this week to be something that I said four months ago on SEN SA is embarrassing.

“So get up early, watch the games, work hard, and stop having opinions off other people’s opinions. If I employed these people, I’d want my money back.”
Wilson then showed the Thomas response on radio.
“What is going through his brain at the moment. That is the entire industry. That’s a space that he lives in probably more so than any of us,” Thomas said at the time on Triple M.
Now the pair have come together and finally cleared the air on the matter .... sort of.
Wilson asked Thomas where did it all begin?
“Explain what went on? It’s baffling,” she said.
Thomas: “It started with ‘the Corn’. Those shots were first fired, and then I rebutted and refuted a lot of them and, I think, rightfully so.
“I’ll happily have people go at me and take the mickey out of me for anything but the preparation side of things, and getting up early and your employer should be giving stuff and money back, I thought was too far.
“I said some things over the pre-season that probably didn’t help that, but there’s no real surprise that we don’t get along.
“I love Carlton Draught, I love steak, and I love going back to my own football club, Corn, not really in to steak and doesn’t drink.”
Wilson asked Cornes (who admits he’s a very different person to Thomas) if he conceded that he was too tough on Thomas.
”Yeah, I do, watching that back,” Cornes said.
“I think, yeah, I was harsh.”
Wilson asked Cornes if Thomas had stolen one of his opinions, and Cornes explained the reason for his fiery attack.
“It wasn’t that. My thought was, I would say something on a Sunday or a Monday, and then on Wednesday the Triple M guys would sort of mock everything I had said.
“And I just got to a point where I’d had enough. (I thought), ‘I’ve had enough of this, I’m going to call it out’.”
Thomas quickly chipped in: “That was a win for Daisy.”
Wilson said to Thomas: “You got really nasty over this summer knowing that you were going to be working with Kane.”
Thomas: “I said some stuff at an AFL function that was given to me by the host. He said, ‘Get up there and try and liven the joint up.’ That was a direct quote.
“he fact that I added a bit too much mayo and swore not knowing it was recorded ... would I have had my time again knowing it was recorded? Probably. Would I have said the same things if it wasn’t recorded, potentially.”
Originally published on 7NEWS Sport