http://www.aflonline.com.au/afl-news/2008/11/25/cousins-no-saint/ Football is Everything Sat, 28 Jan 2012 13:05:09 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.aflonline.com.au/afl-news/2008/11/25/cousins-no-saint/comment-page-1/#comment-452 lisa rentess Tue, 25 Nov 2008 23:10:34 +0000 http://www.aflonline.com.au/?p=751#comment-452 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. 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.

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