Bulldog Will Minson has apologised to Port Adelaide’s Kane Cornes after making a sledge about Cornes’s sick son during last Saturday’s game in Darwin.
Cornes has a two-year old son with rare heart problems, who has already had two operations and is likely to undergo open-heart surgery in the next few years.
While neither club has publicly revealed Minson’s on-field comments, the Western Bulldogs player is believed to have told Cornes he was selfish for playing instead of being home with his sick son. Cornes reportedly replied with a remark about Minson’s late father.
A regretful Minson informed the Bulldogs of the exchange immediately after the game and left a message with Cornes to apologise for his sledge.
Port Adelaide said Cornes accepted the apology and did not want to take the matter any further.
“Whilst [Cornes] was certainly disappointed at the time, he’s now happy to accept that the person is remorseful for what he said and he wants to move on,” Port Adelaide’s football manager Peter Rohde told Fairfax.
