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Find your frequency here“Stay in your lane”: King and Cornes disagree on Lade’s Jamarra comments
SEN • August 11th, 2025 7:00 pm
David King did not like what Western Bulldogs assistant Brendon Lade said about Jamarra Ugle-Hagan on the weekend.
Speaking before the Sunday clash with Melbourne at the MCG, Lade suggested that Ugle-Hagan would struggle to get a game for the VFL team at the moment.
“He’s had a few things going on with his family the last week or so, so we haven’t seen him as much the last couple of weeks,” Lade said on 3AW.
“Prior to that though he was at every session and really putting his name up to play in the VFL and hopefully get back to some good footy before the year is ended.
“But at the moment he has probably put himself back a couple more weeks. The way the VFL is playing at the moment he might be lucky to get a game.”
Reacting to those comments, King could not quite believe that an assistant coach would wade into such areas.
“There’s levels you can go to as an assistant coach and I think this is outside the brief,” King said on SEN’s Fireball.
“I’m not sure that’s what you want. I’m not sure you’d want your assistant coach saying, ‘I’m not sure he’d get a game’.
“They’ve thrown everything around this guy to support him. The last thing (you’d say).”
It prompted a debate with Kane Cornes who felt differently about what his former Port Adelaide teammate said.
Cornes: “Maybe they’ve had enough?”
King: “Just have enough privately. You don’t air that.”
Cornes: “I liked it.”
King: “Oh, you did not.”
Cornes: “Maybe they’re just sick of it. Maybe they’ve tried everything and now they’ve almost got to get to the point of humiliation to actually realise…”
King: “He’s not going to be there, so what’s the point of clipping him in Round 22? Just let it slide, man.
“I don’t think that is part of the assistant coach’s brief. It’s a bad reflection.”
Cornes: “He’s usually a big supporter of players, he’s a champion of players and listening to that I think he’s had enough.”
King: “I don’t care what he is or what he was, right now he got that wrong.
“Stay in your lane, Ladey.”
Cornes: “I think fair game.”
King: “No! Not his job.
“If ‘Bevo’ said it, no problem. If someone up the chain of the C-suite said it, no problem at all.
“Not an assistant coach’s job. Just stay in your lane.”
