get cousin PSD!

[Punt_Road_Roar]

What a joke !!!

Firstly if he is allowed to nominate for the PSD then the AFL need a please explain considering the amount of pressure they have put on the Eagles regarding Ben Cousins. There isnt much more that club could do, but to then let Ben continue to play football would be a joke.

Secondly what a bunch of desperate leech sucking parasites some of us are that we feel the need to pick up such a head case like Ben Cousins? your fooling yourself if you think he would bring value to this club. If you really think he would change his ways by going to a different club in a different state then your sadly naive this guy has huge problems he needs to address, get real.

 

[YellowandBlackBlood]

Mate, can't agree with you there.
There's plenty of blokes in my footy team/club with different traits/interests/habits. Some are drinkers, I'm sure some are into the other stuff also, but the common thread is footy. Any footy club has people from all differnent walks of life. If it wasn't for footy, I wouldn't have any reason to be mates with probably half the guys on our list. When we are all together we work together reasonably well, and we socialise to a degree also, but their habits/preferences don't have any influence on me, as I'm sure mine don't have on them.
Need to have a bit of respect for the individuals within the club. Sure, footballers are generally no rocket-scientists, but they're a pretty disciplined bunch, with a hell of a good support/supervision network also.

I'm talking about professional career sports, not your local footy club. When people's livelihood is on the line with team sports like that, any misbehaviour that could jeopardize team preparation and performance is amplified. In other words, imagine if your paycheck at the end on the week went down because of someone else's behaviour! You wouldn't be a happy chappy. This is not your local club where the one gun player gets a good ride from the coach because he can land you in the finals. It's your career!

 

[SnakeMan86]

Here's the thing. Cousins had to bust his arse to convince the AFL he was drug free so that he could resume playing for west coast. Do you really think the AFL are going to allow him to continue on after his latest indiscretion? How could he possibly convince them?

 

[Brown Bottle]

I'm talking about professional career sports, not your local footy club. When people's livelihood is on the line with team sports like that, any misbehaviour that could jeopardize team preparation and performance is amplified. In other words, imagine if your paycheck at the end on the week went down because of someone else's behaviour! You wouldn't be a happy chappy. This is not your local club where the one gun player gets a good ride from the coach because he can land you in the finals. It's your career!

It's a shame really. I think we'd love to have a player with his training track work ethic around the club, the young kids could learn so much that would fast track their development.

Unfortunately it's impossible to accept the baggage that comes with it.

 

[Sixtyseven]

All Miller has said is that any decision will be made in consultation with the coach.

Miller has been in "neither confirm nor deny mode" for months.[/quote]

To my mind, it all boils down as to whether the club wants to adhere to high standards and whether or not it is prepared to compromise those standards. There has been a lot of talk from the top about establishing a fresh culture at Punt Road.

Surely over the past few days/weeks, and before Miller spoke to the media, the club would have already thought through its approach to drafting Cousins or not if he became available.

If we want to be serious about taking a fresh approach to the culture at Punt Road, Cousins not being a part of the future would be a non-negotiable.

 

[SnakeMan86]

He wont make it to the PSD. The afl will not allow him to play after he convinced them he was clean. There is too much going on in this blokes head to risk it affecting our kids anyway

 

[Weaver]

Surely over the past few days/weeks, and before Miller spoke to the media, the club would have already thought through its approach to drafting Cousins or not if he became available.

Wallace is on leave. All Miller has done is not speak on Wallace's behalf. No point reading anything into that.

 

[peterbuch74]

Since the news has been broken by his lawyer that they expect all drugs charges to be dropped against Cousins on Monday, I wonder if the Tiges will look at Benny a little more closely now?

If all drugs charges are dropped, what grounds would the AFL have to de-register him?

Perhaps a new home at Punt Road might be the thing he needs!

 

[UpTheGuts]

A multiple AA, B&F winner, Brownlow medallust and premiership player with a massive tank looks very very attractive.

But this is Ben Cousins, and I just can't imagine him staying at home on a Saturday night....

Geez he's a good footy player.

 

[94_Eagles]

Re: No.9 For God's sake be BOLD

Make him aware if he stuffs up, he's finished.

You think his former club didn't do that a number of times?

 

[hotdogandsauce]

A multiple AA, B&F winner, Brownlow medallust and premiership player with a massive tank looks very very attractive.

But this is Ben Cousins, and I just can't imagine him staying at home on a Saturday night....

Geez he's a good footy player.

he and gardy can renew old aquaintences....

 

[astro_toby]

Re: No.9 For God's sake be BOLD

You think his former club didn't do that a number of times?

agree - he is a junkie - and he is quite unfazed by it, it would appear

nothing will make him open his eyes to football

 

[Roger Dodger]

The guy has been railroaded. Two cop cars - what an ambush. If Wallace would get back from second holiday this year - what was the first half of 2007 - we should do our upmost to secure him in the PSD. That's if the AFL and conservatives like Greg Baum don't have their way and ban him.

Otherwise we can get Kent Kingsley mach 2: Lance Whitnall.

 

[Darth_Tiger]

with the charges being dropped you have to wonder if there is a chance we will look at him. he would still be a big risk, but damn he is a good player. if i were the club i would interview him i suppose.

then again it did look like it was a big joke to him in the photos i saw of him in the paper.

 

[Jimthegreat]

The drugs he was caught with we to help him with his addiction and he going away for rehab to there's be some serious in respect to getting clean. You'd have to assume now he's available in the PSD otherwise the AFL wouild face legal ramifications. Given that though I still really wouldn't want him at Carlton so I'd be happy for him to go to Richmond. It'd make us better placed to take any player we are targetting.

 

[mrs_richo]

no one can get himm. hes gone from the afl all together.. can never play again...

Demetriou has said he can nominate but the AFL will have the discretion to accept or decline his nomination.

 

[SnakeMan86]

ALL DRUG CHARGES AGAINST COUSINS DROPPED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! faces fine for failing to provide drug sample. West coast say we wont back down from our decision - Christy malthouse 5.44pm.
Now does that throw a spanner in the works!!

 

[hotdogandsauce]

there will be court action pending...

 

[Jimthegreat]

ALL DRUG CHARGES AGAINST COUSINS DROPPED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! faces fine for failing to provide drug sample. West coast say we wont back down from our decision - Christy malthouse 5.44pm.
Now does that throw a spanner in the works!!

Even the failure of taking the "driver assessement test" will be interesting. Will that eventually be dropped too?

http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,22595382-601,00.html

........"According to workers at a nearby construction site, he was sitting in the back seat of the car with his shirt off when the car was pulled over. A young unidentified brunette was driving the vehicle at the time of the incident.

Cousins sat in the back of the vehicle for at least an hour, the workers said, before he left with police. He was led away in handcuffs."

Ch 9 News showed him being taken from the back seat of his car, which validtes what the worker's saw. If that's the case he has every right to refuse.

Then, even if he was driving, he has to take a roadside test first and be found positive before being taken to the Police Station for a blood test. That wasn't followed.

The law's barely a week old maybe all the procedures are not familar to the police, especially those of the Organised Crime Squad that pulled him over, so it wasn't even the traffic branch.

The AFL will have no choice but to re-register him, or see the inside of a court-room themselves.

 

[Kyusss]

Even the failure of taking the "driver assessement test" will be interesting. Will that eventually be dropped too?

http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,22595382-601,00.html

........"According to workers at a nearby construction site, he was sitting in the back seat of the car with his shirt off when the car was pulled over. A young unidentified brunette was driving the vehicle at the time of the incident.

Cousins sat in the back of the vehicle for at least an hour, the workers said, before he left with police. He was led away in handcuffs."

Ch 9 News showed him being taken from the back seat of his car, which validtes what the worker's saw. If that's the case he has every right to refuse.

Then, even if he was driving, he has to take a roadside test first and be found positive before being taken to the Police Station for a blood test. That wasn't followed.

The law's barely a week old maybe all the procedures are not familar to the police, especially those of the Organised Crime Squad that pulled him over, so it wasn't even the traffic branch.

The AFL will have no choice but to re-register him, or see the inside of a court-room themselves.

Lets face it he knew either way it would make the news with his reputation if he was clean the first thing he would have done was given a blood test!
think about it if he gives a blood test and its negative he looks great once the charges get dropped
if he tests and is positive his life is gone

 

[Darth_Tiger]

he may have refused on principle. they had no right to ask him for a blood test if he wasnt driving.

 

[Crumden]

"The following drugs were seized from the vehicle: oxycontin, which is a prohibited drug, diazepam, Viagra ... and a $20 note which preliminary indications and analysis show traces of MDMA, which is ecstasy and cocaine," Mr Gregson said.

Cousins now faces one charge of refusing a test for narcotics whilst driving.
- From RealFooty

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The fact he hasn't been charged doesn't mean anything. He's also yet to receive a single strike under the AFL 3 strikes policy, but that won't stop them most likely de-registering him. He's had his 625 chances and blown them all.

 

[Nobby]

I'd be happy if Richmond drafted him. He'd offer alot more than 95% of players on our list, also be cheaper than half of them and with a get out clause similar to West Coast he would be well worth the risk IMHO.

 

[Banik Stations]

Agree that if he is found not guilty of any wrong doing then why would it be so bad if we were to pick him up in the psd? im not going to say all the rights and wrongs about him , but he would clearly be the best player in the psd. Who knows the move might be good for him.

 

[lids2004roar]

Get Ben to Richmond!!

I don't care if he gets suspended in March and doesn't play a single game - he will teach our young list SO MUCH about gut-busting running at training and teach them what it takes to become a brownlow medallist premiership champion with outstanding leadership qualities. He can help our club in so many ways it's not funny, and all for the risk he'll get deregistered and taken away again.

Or we could take another Trent Knobel