Billy Brownless has confirmed that Adelaide skipper Taylor Walker was getting mic'd up before his segment on The Sunday Footy Show when he called media rival Kane Cornes a d***head, unaware that the former Port star was listening.
โI donโt know if he knew that we had audio through our headsets and it was Tex and he was in Darwin,โ Brownless told Triple M's Rush Hour.
โAnd we go, โGโdayโ. And Tony Jones goes, โGโday, the boys are here ready to goโ.
โAnd Tex says, โIs Kane on?โ And Kaneโs down the end there. And Tony goes, โYeah, yeah, heโs onโ.
And he (Walker) goes, โAhh s***โ.
And then heโs gone to his media manager: โHeโs on. The d***head is onโ. Not knowing that Kane can hear all of this.โ
The comment creates more tension between the two as the pair have traded tweets and Cornes also questioned Tex's captaincy after last year's grand final loss and throughout the year.
โWalker was hardly sighted in the first half of the upset defeat at the hands of Collingwood on Friday night,โ Cornes wrote in one of his opinion pieces for The Advertiser after Adelaide's loss to the Magpies earlier this season.
โHis lack of presence and mediocre effort at ground level in the second quarter was obvious and not conducive to a captainโs game.โ
After the article, Tex stated that he would "probably" wouldn't say hello to the former Port Adelaide record games holder in public.
โI suppose thatโs what he gets paid to do, make headlines but I suppose week in, week out it gets a bit long in the tooth,โ said Walker.
In Adelaide`s loss to Melbourne in round 19, Cornes said that it was time for the Crows to give the captaincy to Rory Sloane.
โIโve said that Rory Sloane just looks the captain to be at Adelaide, he certainly ticks every box for me the way that he plays, the way he leads and how popular he is with the fans over here,โ Cornes told SEN.
โIf it was me, I would be making a change in captaincy there.
โTaylorโs done all the pushing and shoving behind the ball for a while, itโs OK, unless you put your head over the footy.
โHeโs had some moments this year where heโs really let himself down and there was one spoken about quite heavily against Collingwood earlier on the year where he ran over the footy.โ
But Tex wants to keep his job as skipper.
โEveryone is entitled to their opinion,โโ Walker said.
โIt depends on whether I listen to it or not. Iโve got a lot of people that I trust and until they tell me, I am pretty confident that I will continue to do the job.โ
