BEN COUSINS [merged]

[one-eyed]

Hypothetical:

Eagles want to trade Cousins at the end of the year. Cousins wants to move to Victoria to get away from WA. Eagles willing to accept Cogs from us in return.

Would you do it?

[Moi]

No thanks 

[torch]

that's a great hypothetical question ...

Cousins ---> Coughlan ...

i am not sure  ...

Coughlan as we all know is injury prone ...

Cousins, we know ... but cousins is a champion player and can play football ... his hard running is what we need ...

but to give coughlan up ... thats tough ...

well i wounder if we give west coast Hall, Tivendale, Moore, Hartigan, Hyde, and a 1st Round pick ... ???

fair trade i reckon!

(LM"F"AO)

 

[Mr Magic]

Cousins has issues to work out before a trade of that nature is even considered.

But on pure footballing ability I'd do that trade in a heartbeat.

[letsgetiton!]

if teh tigers were smart, they would start the process now
head west, offer support to cousins, even suggest he conme stay in melb for a while under the guidence of our ppl
get rehab in melb, suck up his clacker bigtime
then at yrs end trade cogs,tiv and hall for him

cousins is the footballer we need
and im sure he can sort his problems out

unless he has been on ice, cos that stuff f's u for life

[WilliamPowell]

If it was purely a footy issue - I'd say yep

but sadly it appears that is no longer the case so I would say NO WAY

But if they need help with the Embley/Chick situation I'll happily take Andrew Embley off their hands 

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i hope we get cousins, apparently he was not even driving and was in the back seat of his car, thats why he would not take the drivers assessment test. if this is true, and with no drugs found on him, (just prescription ones to help stop his addiction cravings) teh afl, wce and the police can all go get stuffed

and i will welcome him at the rfc with open arms

[one-eyed]

As the poll says - Would you pick up Ben Cousins in the PSD?

[Moi]

Apart from his obvious deficiencies, he's outside of the age group we should be after.
No thanks!

[richmondrules]

A drug addict is a drug addict is a drug addict. Drug addicts do not think the same as you and me. He has real problems and should be concentrating his full energy on recovering from that disease. He will not be thinking straight at the moment it is far too early for him to be getting back to anything like normality. Unfortunately he has probably stuffed his career, but he now has the chance to rescue his life. He will end up similar to an alcoholic. You are always an alcoholic just a non drinking alcoholic. He will need to be ever vigilant.

I would be very surprised if we could offer him anything useful or if he could offer us anything useful. There are far too many risks, you could not do it, it would be like playing Russian roulette.

[Hellenic Tiger]

We could do worse and pick up some other hack from the pre season draft.

Perhaps being away from Perth and farmiliar surroundings may help him focus on his footy. Unfortunantely media will hound him wherever he goes even if he fronts up for some Melville Island team as his story is now an epic saga. His skill and work rate are of an extremely high standard and with the WA Police dropping the charges thus opening another can of worms of WC abandoning him without a "fair trial" as after all he was innocent hence no charges he may have a burning desire to make WC pay and we might get 2 or 3 years of footy where he sticks it up everyones faces. A very big risk but I would seriously look into it. Premiership Player Brownlow Medallist All Australian they don't come along every day. Flawed genius. I say yes.
Richo will kick 90 goals a season at Full Forward. Half of them will be from a Cousins assist.

[Moi]

We all said the same great things about Akermanis last year Hellenic.  He did very little for the Doggies.
Be stupid to draft him.

[cub]

IF

Would be best available and that's what you take.

May be 29 but seems the type, if he can fix himself could play for another 5 years u would think.

In a heartbeat

[Gordon Bennett]

No way.

Would need to be drug-free for 12mths before I'd even consider him.

[bluey_21]

nope, tooooo much baggage