Channel Seven to air Ben Cousins documentary - Aug 25-26

[ros]

Great for the Club to honor the Cuz with a lap.

It's sure makes sense financially. After all everyone loves a circus.

You sound like you need a night out with Ben.   Maybe you need 2 blondes picking you up at the airport and having their way with you for 5 days.   It seems your dislike of Ben features the colour green.

[TigerLand]

What's Dermie on saying he doesn't need a lap of honour?
 

He doesn't.
Cousins is a West Coast Eagles champion. Not a Richmond one.

I found the doco remotely interesting.
Cousins struck me as a pretty self interested individual who happened to take drugs.
I felt for his Dad and his family. That's about it.
He's extremely lucky some at Richmond decided he had enough talent to give him another shot.

Sooner this circus is over the better.

Hmm see this is the problem with society. MM if I can use you as an example.

Society believe drug addiction isn't a proper addiction. For what ever reason I don't know. If you can't quit smoking your not frowned upon and shot down in society for it.

To say Cousins doesn't deserve a lap of honour is embarrassing. The guy is an AFL champion and deserves a send off.

Should Doug Hawkins be clapped off after he retired after finishing his 350 AFL game career at Fitzroy after only 1 year there?

Regardless of how many chips society and the AFL world has about Ben he's been a champion player and deserves a respectful send off.

Mind boggiling that I've read on this forum that Troy Simmonds deserved to halt our development and get a charity farewell game at the expense of Graham Polak who made way and never got back into the side. Yet Ben Cousins and AFL champion doesn't deserve a last 5min lap of honour...

[TigerLand]

He's been fantastic for Richmond, the Eagles, the competition, deserves it as much as anyone who gets one
And the fans want it - well most  

Yep. I could are less.
IMO he hasn't been a good enough player in his short time at Richmond to give him a 'lap of honour'.
In time Cousins will be a blip in Richmond's history.
I'd rather the energy be focussed on Jack winning the Coleman.

Naive comments Cousins worth wasn't his performance on field.

He bought in enormous financial gain for the club
Helped with the development of the youngsters and leadership group

Cousins did more for our club than Troy Simmonds ever did.

[TigerLand]

we sit on the fence at etihad, I go with my 8yo daughter each week.
She has spent most of the day making a Ben Cousins banner.
Get a life you imbeciles.
Ben has been terrifc for the RFC, as the RFC has been for Ben

Here Here Jack.

[Ramps]

we sit on the fence at etihad, I go with my 8yo daughter each week.
She has spent most of the day making a Ben Cousins banner.
Get a life you imbeciles.
Ben has been terrifc for the RFC, as the RFC has been for Ben

I agree 100%

[Mr Magic]

Hmm see this is the problem with society. MM if I can use you as an example.

You can do whatever you want Pope. Nowhere have I said Ben's wasn't a proper addiction.
He did make his own choices in life though. Not everyone becomes addicted to hard drugs.

Naive comments Cousins worth wasn't his performance on field.

32 games of footy for a 'lap of honour'?
Geez they're cheap these days.
Hype aside, I am sure many get confused as to what he's actually delivered at Richmond which hasn't been all that much.

If Ben is to get a lap celebrating his once glittering career, where the overwhelming number of his achievements were at WC, it should be on GF day with the other retirees.

Then we can move on.

[Go Richo 12]

Hmm see this is the problem with society. MM if I can use you as an example.

You can do whatever you want Pope. Nowhere have I said Ben's wasn't a proper addiction.
He did make his own choices in life though. Not everyone becomes addicted to hard drugs.

Naive comments Cousins worth wasn't his performance on field.

32 games of footy for a 'lap of honour'?
Geez they're cheap these days.
Hype aside, I am sure many get confused as to what he's actually delivered at Richmond which hasn't been all that much.

If Ben is to get a lap celebrating his once glittering career, where the overwhelming number of his achievements were at WC, it should be on GF day with the other retirees.

Then we can move on.

Who cares? It's only a lap!
I am certain the fans of both teams would love to see a lap today! Its a bit of history really. " I was there for Ben Cousins' last game"
Its not how many games he has played for the club alone that counts as a contribution! I believe this doco will create new members for us too in the future!
No matter what anyone says, and we should never think that Cuz suffered less than others, everyone's experience of addiction is unique and handled in different ways! I believe that Cuz's life is a great human story and should inspire thousands of people experiencing hardship of any dimension to keep battling!

[Mr Magic]

Who cares? It's only a lap!

There's that I guess.

[Penelope]

we sit on the fence at etihad, I go with my 8yo daughter each week.
She has spent most of the day making a Ben Cousins banner.
Get a life you imbeciles.
Ben has been terrifc for the RFC, as the RFC has been for Ben

Good stuff Jack 

[Owl]

At the end of the day they are footballers, not knights of the templar.  They drink, they root, they swear, some of them fall arrse over tit just like other human beings.  The football honors are for football achievements of which he has many and contributed much.  Frankly, the drug addicts that affect me the most are the smokers who blow there stuffing smoke in my face around the entrance of buildings or chuck their butts on the deck instead of the bin standing right next to them.  I tell em to pick em up, If they don't, I flick it into their hair. Then of course I'M the bad man again.

[jackstar is back again]

At the end of the day they are footballers, not knights of the templar.  They drink, they root, they swear, some of them fall arrse over tit just like other human beings.  The football honors are for football achievements of which he has many and contributed much.  Frankly, the drug addicts that affect me the most are the smokers who blow there effing smoke in my face around the entrance of buildings or chuck their butts on the deck instead of the bin standing right next to them.  I tell em to pick em up, If they don't, I flick it into their hair. Then of course I'M the bad man again.

Lets dont get me started about smokers.
have interviewed many for positions with my company over the past few weeks and put a line though there name when I can smell the smoke.
They think its a given right to have a "'smoko"' every hour.
The most unproductive thing in a workplace, disgracefull habit

[FNM]

At the end of the day they are footballers, not knights of the templar.  They drink, they root, they swear, some of them fall arrse over tit just like other human beings.  The football honors are for football achievements of which he has many and contributed much.  Frankly, the drug addicts that affect me the most are the smokers who blow there effing smoke in my face around the entrance of buildings or chuck their butts on the deck instead of the bin standing right next to them.  I tell em to pick em up, If they don't, I flick it into their hair. Then of course I'M the bad man again.

Lets dont get me started about smokers.
have interviewed many for positions with my company over the past few weeks and put a line though there name when I can smell the smoke.
They think its a given right to have a "'smoko"' every hour.
The most unproductive thing in a workplace, disgracefull habit

Crap, I've been my company's little star performer for the last 13 years and smoked most of the way through it
Some smokers realise that when they go out every hour or whatever they have to work harder than the others to make up for it
I say some. There are some good ones out there, Jack, and just as many bad.
I think you are discriminating in your workplace, Jack, and should watch that 
Me if I was employing, I'd stay from the ones that can't keep their mouths shut and spread gossip and innuendo 
 

[jackstar is back again]

well, smokers insist they have a smoko every hour, 8 hours a day= 80 minutes unproductive time.
and in my single days, any chick that smoked kept there shoes on, lol

[FNM]

and in my single days

[Owl]

You coulda just given em a minty Jack