Nathan Buckley has called out Kane Cornes during a frosty radio exchange on Monday morning.
The pair were discussing Port Adelaide rising star Jason Horne-Francis during their SEN Breakfast show when it suddenly began to get very awkward as the conversation shifted to a Collingwood player.
The Magpies legend pulled Cornes up for comments he has made recently in light of the ugly booing saga that now surrounds the 19-year-old.
Despite the game being on home soil, Horne-Francis was booed by the Adelaide Oval crowd every time he touched the ball in his team’s win over the Western Bulldogs on Saturday — three weeks after he copped it from Collingwood fans at the MCG.
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Port Adelaide coach Ken Hinkley was furious after the game and called out the behaviour of those fans and said people within the game “need to have a look at themselves”.
The saga took a dramatic turn on Sunday when Cornes scorched North Melbourne supporters over their treatment of the former No. 1 draft pick.
Kangaroos great David King fired back at Cornes on Sunday night calling out the footy shock jock for ”rubbish” comments about Horne-Francis’ messy departure from the Kangaroos.
The war of words roared again on Monday morning.
“It shouldn’t have anything to do with the media or the personalities within it,” Buckley said on SEN Breakfast.
“It shouldn’t have anything to do with you. It shouldn’t have anything to do with Kingy, who has North Melbourne blood coursing through his veins.
“And you, who has Port Adelaide blood coursing through your veins. In the end you’re going to be biased towards the connections you have.
“And in between it all, you have this kid, who Ken Hinkley rightfully says has every right to develop and grow as a footballer and in his own time and in his own way.
“He is a prodigious talent. He has got rough edges. And everyone’s going to have an opinion on that. You’re entitled to your opinion and you can question a guy around his professionalism and how he goes about it and whether you think he’s playing well or whether you think he’s having a crack. But eventually it does take a personal toll.
“I understand a lot of sides to it. I don’t think it’s due to one thing or another. When emotions get involved logic goes out the window.”
He went on to say the comments by King and Cornes had inflamed the situation.
“Hinkley can see Horne-Francis is 100 per cent committed to the club. North Melbourne never felt that. So I can see it from both sides,” Buckley said.
“And so what we do on the outside is we speculate and then it filters through the masses. And then the masses get emotionally involved in it and that’s where the nostrils get flared.”
