“Spare me Patrick.”

Kane Cornes is not copping AFL Players Association president Patrick Dangerfield’s defence of Ollie Wines after the Power midfielder suffered a shoulder injury water skiing over the weekend.

Wines is set to miss the start of the home and away season with that injury, but Dangerfield feels players need these pastimes.

“It’s ironic given some of the people that’ve criticised Ollie, I’d love to see what their extra-curricular activities were like when they were playing just to go out there and have a little bit of fun,” Dangerfield told Channel Seven.

“If you lose that within the game, then we become robots.”

Cornes, however, doesn’t agree. He feels AFL players live on better terms than any other sporting professionals out there and should give up these “extra-curricular” activities in pursuit of a flag.

“Once again, you are being paid a significant amount of money. You get the best conditions of any sports profession in the world I would say,” Cornes told SEN SA Breakfast.

“You name me a sport where the average wage is $370,000, you get 14 weeks off per year, you get one and a half days off per week.

“You name me a sport where you get those conditions and then (the club says to you), well to get that, all we ask is you don’t get on a motorbike, or you don’t go mountain bike riding, you don’t get behind the boat, particularly in January, you don’t go snow skiing – those are the conditions.

“I reckon 95 to 99 per cent of the population would do that.

“It’s not that hard. Who would not put their hands up for that?

“We asked Kevin Sheedy yesterday and he said, would you see Roger Federer skiing before an Australian Open? No you wouldn’t.

“So for Dangerfield to get all high and mighty, he makes some good points at times Danger, but for him to say everyone being critical of it is boring, well yeah maybe that’s because we want to win a flag.

“How many flags has Dangerfield won? None. How many has Ollie Wines won? None. I’m going to tell you, if you would give up that for the chance to win a flag, then you would do it.

“I’m a little bit sick of the power the players, through the AFLPA are having and it does annoy me.

“It’s not a hanging offense by Ollie Wines, he’s been skiing since he was six, but for these players to come in and say everyone else is boring because you don’t do anything outside of footy, well maybe that’s because they want to win a flag.”