Hird interview.
Ben Cousins. Will he play next year?
Geez, a hard (one), Hirdy.
Look, that's a list management (issue). All Ben can do at the moment is do what he does well, (which) is play footy. He's going really, really well.
Obviously, last week he had a setback. But from our point of view he's putting his best foot forward.
But there's a lot of things that come into play. We don't quite know which way the AFL are going to go - whether they're going to cap rotations, which is obviously going to have an impact. Whether Ben's body is going to go forward from that point of view.
Is it totally in his hands if he has a great seven weeks, or are there other factors?
No, there's other factors that will come into it and myself, (football manager) Craig Cameron and our match committee will sit down and decide what's the best thing, because Ben, whilst he's an important player for us at the moment and playing very, very well, you know there are some players that will at some stage go past him.
And that's our decision that we've got to make.
Last question on Ben. Your thoughts when you found out he was in hospital?
I thought they were joking when they first told me.
But then it was very alarming to hear that one of your players (is) in intensive care.
And then the fact that his girlfriend was very traumatised by the whole thing, finding him, which was concerning, and then, you know, I'm much like you.
I'm a big family man, so then our concern was Ben's parents, who were obviously in Perth. So we were trying to keep them informed. It was very, very hard.
It was a day I don't really want to go through again.
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Surely DH can see the value of Cuzzi
Do you think he's for or against Ben continuing on in 2011.
Possibly a ploy to let BC know he wont be taking any of his bull shi r if he goes around one more time
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