Ollie Wines' brother Harry has unleashed on former Port great Kane Cornes following the debate surrounding his water-skiing accident.

Wines dislocated his shoulder on Australia Day and is in doubt to play round one after undergoing surgery.

Geelong star and AFLPA president Patrick Dangerfield defended Wines' mishap on Channel Seven, stating players should be free to get involved in extra-curricular activities to avoid "becoming robots".

And Cornes did not take kindly to the Brownlow medallist's claims.

"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 on SEN on Wednesday.

"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.

"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."

Harry Wines has returned serve to Cornes, coming out to bat for his brother in a now deleted Twitter tirade.

"@kanecornes Kane the amount of s**t that has come from your mouth the last couple of days is absolutely stunning," Harry Wines wrote.

"Saying a player has "let his team down badly" after a freak injury is incredibly hypocritical after you ditched Port mid-season to do a 2 week internship at the fire brigade.

"It's glaringly obvious you will throw your fellow players under the bus to rat your way to a media career the same way you sheep-dogged your way to 300 games without a scratch.

"You don't need to take your childhood issues out on players trying to live their lives.

"It's not their fault you were bullied growing up and not allowed to play with the cool kids. Move on to the next topic."

Cornes has since responded to Harry Wines' statement, holding firm on his comments from Wednesday.