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Re: BEN COUSINS [merged]
« Reply #585 on: January 27, 2009, 09:10:26 PM »
Just more trashy journalism. Hmmm so some journo in Queensland would know a Riva "regular" ::). What a convenient unnamed source  ::).

Same article was in the HUN in the confidential section - you know the daily gossip page
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Re: BEN COUSINS [merged]
« Reply #586 on: January 27, 2009, 09:20:05 PM »
Just more trashy journalism. Hmmm so some journo in Queensland would know a Riva "regular" ::). What a convenient unnamed source  ::).

Same article was in the HUN in the confidential section - you know the daily gossip page
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Re: BEN COUSINS [merged]
« Reply #587 on: January 29, 2009, 07:50:32 PM »
3aw just said Cuz has been spotted at the tennis watching Roddick vs Federer. So expect a Herald-Sun back page tomorrow of a huge pic of Cousins in the grandstand with a small inset in the corner of Roddick and Federer  :yep.

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Re: BEN COUSINS [merged]
« Reply #588 on: January 29, 2009, 08:35:06 PM »
Yay Yay
Our man Benny Cousins was on Channel 7.

to be quite honest i didn't even see him i was too busy focosing on that piece on the right.

who is that? geez she is a tidy unit that one
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Re: BEN COUSINS [merged]
« Reply #589 on: January 29, 2009, 08:49:42 PM »
yes Benny's got front row seats at the tennis - lucky bugger
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Re: BEN COUSINS [merged]
« Reply #590 on: January 29, 2009, 08:52:05 PM »
3aw just said Cuz has been spotted at the tennis watching Roddick vs Federer. So expect a Herald-Sun back page tomorrow of a huge pic of Cousins in the grandstand with a small inset in the corner of Roddick and Federer  :yep.

Yeah as I posted on the other Benny thread

Lucky bugger has front row seats

And I think tomorrow's papers willpoint out it looks like he has had another haircut :rollin
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Re: BEN COUSINS [merged]
« Reply #591 on: January 29, 2009, 09:37:17 PM »
Was the burly man there?

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Re: BEN COUSINS [merged]
« Reply #592 on: January 29, 2009, 10:15:40 PM »
Was the burly man there?

no sign of the burly man

Benny had ladies on each side 
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Re: BEN COUSINS [merged]
« Reply #593 on: January 29, 2009, 10:29:23 PM »
Maybe he's a cross dresser.
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Re: BEN COUSINS [merged]
« Reply #594 on: January 29, 2009, 11:10:34 PM »
Here's some pics



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« Reply #595 on: January 30, 2009, 01:03:54 AM »
And I think tomorrow's papers willpoint out it looks like he has had another haircut :rollin

AFL must've got their sample this time.

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Re: BEN COUSINS [merged]
« Reply #596 on: January 30, 2009, 04:30:59 PM »
Cousins ready for dream match-up

WE HOPED it was coming when Richmond called out the name ‘Ben Cousins’ in the NAB AFL Pre-Season Draft.

Thursday March 26, 7:40pm at the MCG suddenly had the potential to stage football’s version of a prize fight: Carlton v Richmond – Cousins v Judd.

And it seems the potential will be realised with Cousins likely to be available to play in the very first fixture of the 2009 premiership season, according to Richmond elite performance manager Mathew Hornsby.

While Carton skipper Chris Judd has managed his first pre-season for three years with no injuries or operations to recover from, Cousins is also looking good for the match-up.

"The way he's going, he'll certainly be available for selection – I don't want to take the coach's hat there, putting him in the 22 already," Richmond's elite performance manager Matthew Hornsby told richmondfc.com.au.

"But yeah, he's probably exactly where you need him to be at this stage.”

Hornsby stressed that while Cousins had not achieved math fitness just yet, the indicators were all positive.

"He knows that there's still a fair bit more to go before he's absolutely cherry-ripe for playing AFL footy, but we have time to prepare for that,” he said.

"We're still in January, and we don't play until near on April – the very end of March – so he's got a really good opportunity to be able to get some great continuity in the next month, and then get three or four games of footy under his belt before round one.

"That's the plan that we're going with, and hopefully he doesn't have any hiccups along the way."

The last time Cousins played a competitive match of football - against Port Adelaide in a qualifying final in 2007 – he tore his hamstring, a muscle he's had issues with over his entire celebrated career.

But Hornsby said Cousins, at 31 and with 238 games under his belt, was a hardy specimen.

"There's a big focus on doing everything we can to reduce the potential for soft-tissue injury, because at his age, with a little bit of a history and with time out of the game, that's always a risk.

"[We’re] being careful with his progressions, so that his body adapts to it, but not too conservative to the point where you don't get the sort of work into him that he needs as well.

"The great thing is, he knows what he needs – he's experienced.”

Hornsby said Cousins’ durability over the course of a long and arduous career was another reason for optimism. 

"To be honest, he hasn't had too bad a run with them (hamstrings) – he's had a couple of incidents, but for a guy who's played as much footy as he has, the reality is he's actually been quite durable over the whole course.

"Yeah, he's had a couple of problems in recent time, but there's not too many blokes in the competition who haven't had that at his age."

So be ready for the bell to ring come round one. It should be quite a contest.

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Re: BEN COUSINS [merged]
« Reply #597 on: January 31, 2009, 12:00:49 PM »
Mind guru backs Cuz
West Australian | 31st January 2009, 6:00 WST
 
One of Australia’s most successful and experienced sports psychologists is in no doubt Ben Cousins will make a successful comeback from drug addiction with Richmond.
   
Jeff Bond, who on Australia Day celebrated being awarded the Medal of the Order of Australia for his service to the industry, is Richmond’s learning and development general manager and has worked closely with Cousins in the past few months.
   
After his well-publicised drug problems, Cousins met a posse of Richmond officials and players last year, and during a one-hour session, Bond saw enough to believe the former Eagles captain would make good his comeback.
   
Richmond recruited Cousins in last year’s pre-season draft.
   
“There’s no doubt in my mind that a player who’s achieved what he has, has something to offer,” Bond said. “I knew from watching him as a player how hard he worked and that hasn’t changed at all.
   
“He has brought a level of intensity into his work in the gym and his work out on the track that’s probably helped some of our other players.
   
“It’s been very positive and he’s fitting in quite nicely, and I’m looking forward to the day that he steps out on the field in the yellow and black and plays.”
 
If that’s music to the ears of Richmond fans, Bond is also confident Tigers coach Terry Wallace can continue coaching the club beyond 2009.
   
Bond has found working with Wallace a dream, among the handful of the best coaches he has worked with in terms of improving what goes on “between the ears” of elite athletes.
   
This season is Wallace’s last of a five-year contract, and only one thing will earn him another contract — getting the Tigers into the finals.
   
“The club is on the rise and it wouldn’t surprise me at all if his contract was extended, depending on how things go this year,” Bond said.
   
Bond first worked in the then VFL under Ron Barassi.
   
It was 1981 and VFL side Melbourne, under Barassi’s tutelage, took a leap of faith by hiring him.
   
“He was the great motivational coach and I thought he’d be sceptical, but the reverse was true,” Bond said.
   
“He was terrific to work with and he was ahead of his time and his thinking.”
   
For almost three decades, Bond has been helping Australian athletes achieve their best by becoming mentally tougher, producing their best at pivotal moments and establishing sound lifestyle balances outside sport.

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Re: BEN COUSINS [merged]
« Reply #598 on: January 31, 2009, 12:30:23 PM »
Judd said he and Benny are catching up for lunch today.

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Re: BEN COUSINS [merged]
« Reply #599 on: January 31, 2009, 12:37:23 PM »
I know for a fact Ben is ready to play his best footy and doesn't actually have to be on a modified training program but is for precautionary measures.(rubbish)