Crow sorry for Nic Nat tweet

ADELAIDE ruckman Reilly O’Brien has apologised for a tweet that described Nic Naitanui as lazy and unfit.

O’Brien blamed a phone malfunction for accidentally posting notes about the West Coast star who he will face in Saturday’s clash at the Gabba.

The 24-year-old Crow, who is studying biomedicine after a Year 12 ATAR of 99.75, said he typed out notes to “pump myself up” before matches. He did not intend to publish them on a public site and admitted he’d “had an absolute mare” after the tweet went viral.

In his post, later deleted, O’Brien said: “Run off him hard, he is lazy and unfit. Will have a field day getting ball and marking everything. Get to front and have grunt around the ground, and get ball on deck, beat him in this area.”

O’Brien clarified the post on Thursday and said he had huge respect ponent.

“Coming up against this week who I think is the best ruckman in the competition at the moment, Nic Nat, I was just trying to get some confidence and get going,” he said

O’Brien conceded he had put extra pressure on himself to perform against Naitanui.

Eagles general manager of footy operations Craig Vozzo said the apology was passed onto the club. for his Eagles op