Western Bulldogs coach Luke Beveridge’s long-running feud with controversial media pundit Kane Cornes has appeared to reignite, with the pair partaking in a short verbal stoush earlier than the Bulldogs’ conflict with Geelong on Friday night time.
Cornes has been a long-term critic of Beveridge and his teaching over time, with issues intensifying within the wake of the 2016 premiership coach’s pointed rebuke of the Port Adelaide nice’s criticism of Bulldogs gamers earlier than their 2021 preliminary closing win over the Energy.
“In the event you’re going to fail in life, fail at one thing that’s noble. Fail at one thing you possibly can mud your self off and be proud that you just had a go,” Beveridge mentioned on the time.
“In the event you’re failing at attempting to tug individuals aside and convey individuals down like two or three journalists did this week, I don’t know the way individuals round you possibly can dwell with you, how they will lie in mattress with you, how they will have a look at themselves within the mirror.”
Since then, Cornes has wanted little motivation to clip Beveridge or query his teaching, together with repeated claims that he’s losing the AFL’s most gifted listing, culminating in him being banned from showing within the Bulldogs’ rooms.
Earlier than the Canine’ 14-point loss to the Cats at GMHBA Stadium, Cornes and Beveridge exchanged phrases as he made his means across the boundary line previous the place Cornes was working for Channel Seven, with the previous describing the confrontation as ‘an ungainly state of affairs’.
“It was an ungainly state of affairs as a result of he was watching me fairly strongly and I didn’t actually know what to say,” he mentioned.
“So I simply mentioned ‘g’day Bevo’ and it wasn’t obtained that nicely … I might’ve appreciated to have gone on with the dialog and had it respectfully, nevertheless it wasn’t the time or the place.”
“There was a confrontation, there have been some phrases spoken … clearly the connection between myself and the Western Bulldogs isn’t a robust one.
Talking on Fox Footy, former participant turned commentator David King – who works with Cornes twice per week on Melbourne radio station SEN, mentioned the confrontation is Cornes’ ‘shtick’.
“Tonight there aren’t any winners. It makes two clever individuals look actually silly,” he added.
On SEN on Friday morning, Cornes elaborated additional on the run-in, hinting at what Beveridge had mentioned to him.
“I simply stood there and seemed out and as he got here nearer to me he was watching me strongly with a robust look on his face,” Cornes mentioned.
“That was from 10 or so metres away, and as he received a bit of bit nearer I seemed again and I simply mentioned, ‘Bevo’, and nodded my head.
“I don’t know if it’s for me to share what he mentioned. I’m pleased to let you know precisely my half on this – apart from to say ‘Bevo’, and nodded my head, it wasn’t obtained nicely.
“It was one thing alongside the strains of, ‘You’ve received the nerve to say that’, and I simply mentioned, ‘What, I can’t say whats up?’. Then he circled once more and began to go once more and that’s when he was dragged away.
“But it surely’s okay, it’s advantageous. He’s combative, he protects his membership, I’ve received no subject with it. We will have a little bit of amusing about it, I feel.”
Beveridge refused to touch upon the trade when requested post-match by Seven soccer reporter Mitch Cleary.
“What incident?” he mentioned.
“In the event you’re attempting to drum up any controversy, I don’t assume there was any. I’ve actually received nothing to say.”
When pressed by Cleary, Beveridge added “I do know what you’re attempting to do, Mitch. You’re not going to get me to chew.”
The 16.17 (113) to twenty.7 (127) defeat to the Cats leaves the Canine with a precarious 6-5 document regardless of their sturdy type.
