FORMER Port Adelaide champion Kane Cornes has for the first time revealed what Will Minson said to him about his sick son during a game in 2008.

Minson was forced to publicly apologise a few days later but never revealed what he said to Cornes, who was so upset after the game he refused to take Minson’s phone call.

Cornes’s son, Eddy, was born with Partial Anomalous Pulmonary Venous Drainage, a rare heart defect causing one of his lungs gets more blood than it is supposed to. His heart is also on the right side of his chest.

In 2008 Eddy was just one year of age and in hospital fighting for his life. Cornes and his wife, Lucy, were spending most nights in hospital, but Cornes continued to play.

In Round 14, Port played the Western Bulldogs in Darwin when Minson turned on Cornes and said: “Shouldn’t you be home with your dying son?”

Cornes tells Mike Sheahan during a special one-hour edition of Open Mike tomorrow that Eddy, now 8, “had a number of complications when he was young”.

“It was his asthma that used to get him really badly so we spent a lot of time in hospital,” Cornes said.

“I was a bit blown away (when Minson made the remark). I played with his brother, Hugh, and I think their father had passed away so I said, ‘That’s a really strange thing to say. I know what you’ve been through’.

“He rang me after the game, but I didn’t take his call.”

media_camera Will Minson tangles with Danyle Pearce and his Port Adelaide teammates in 2012.

Cornes’s brother Chad who, with father Graham, also appears on the show, said he rang Minson the next morning “and let him know what I thought”.

“You just don’t say that. Apparently Will’s an OK guy off the field, but obviously not on the field.

“He did the same thing to Danyle Pearce a few years later.”

In 2012, Minson made derogatory comments about Pearce’s mother and was suspended by the club for one match.

“Pearcey was furious about that,” Kane said. “I was surprised (Will) didn’t learn his lesson from the first one.”

OPEN MIKE, FOX FOOTY, TOMORROW 9.30PM