Kane Cornes believes AFLW is receiving more than enough coverage as the sport continues to be handed allowances.
SEN Afternoons host Andy Maher suggested last week that there’s hardly been a word about AFLW ahead of the 2019 season, but Cornes simply does not agree.
The Port Adelaide premiership player feels elite athletes in other sports have every right to be frustrated by what’s happening on the footy front given how much funding has gone into the code over the past few years.
“I was shocked and staggered by Andy Maher,” Cornes said on SEN SA Breakfast.
“I don’t think there’s any sport in Australia that has been given as many leg-ups as what AFLW has been given.
“There is a story on the Crows’ women’s leadership group, it is the leading sports story in the paper (The Advertiser) today.
“I look down and I get a full page coverage about a pre-season trial match between the Crows and Fremantle.
“You are getting the games free, there is promotional material everywhere, the players are now stars in their own right.
“Andy Maher is so far off the mark there, and this is not personal, but there has been more done for AFLW in this country than any other sport in its history.
“You ask the netballers what they think about AFLW and the work that has been put in and the money that has been invested.
“You ask the Hockeyroos how they feel about AFLW. You ask the swimmers who toil away at five o’clock every morning, you ask the runners the same.
“AFLW has been given that many leg-ups it is not funny.”
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