Cousins no Saint
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LikeAfter months of specualtion that Ben Cousins would make his comeback in 2009 in a St Kilda guernsey the board has chosen to stop pursuing Cousins after a meeting today.
St Kilda have been leading the race to secure Cousins for months and it now appears they may have been the only club willing to take a punt on the former West Coast champion.
St Kilda issued a press release tonight which stated the club had conducted complex review over a 5 month period regarding Cousins.
Saints CEO, Archie Fraser said, “We owed it to ourselves to undertake a rigorous and thorough review and have now made our decision. This is a decision that we didn’t take lightly and we still believe that for the right Club, Ben could well be a great opportunity.”
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If the Saints need 5 months to make a decision on a player with the current reputation of Ben Cousins I think it reflects on them and not on him. Cousins was a brilliant footballer, but he did have a hamstring alarm, and he is over thirty.He is risky for any club, and he would need support from a club and sponsor with gutz that can afford to ride the media storm that will follow him. He is a scapegoat, but inability to show any remorse for his self confessed drug problems may have turned against him as it has for Carey. We prefer the humility to bravado, and the gorgeous Benny has not been able to show his remorse overtly. The phantoms playing footy with sanctioned warnings must be feeling very smug under the AFL code that has not been applied to Ben.