Ben cousins retirement?

Question

expect a ben cousins retirement soon. i hear he was going to announce earlier this week, but the hole mainwearing thing happened.

Answer 1

A shame. His career had a lot of life left in it. There's a whole lot about Ben Cousins that is a shame.

Answer 2

Wow his way to young. His a great footy player i would like to know where you heard this information .

His got a great future ahead of him and the club depends on Kerr and Cousins to be leaders to the club.

in my opinion.

Answer 3

Yeah, rumours are rife in WA. I heard he was caught by police for drink driving in Broome recently but had it hushed up, and also more drug possession rumours. I think he probably will be considering his options at the moment, but I also think his club will be considering theirs.

Answer 4

I think he is going through a hard time in his life at the moment.

I believe he should do whats best for him and not anyone else.

Whatever decision he makes,lets hope its for the better.

Answer 5

The latest rumour is that he is retiring so that he can become a Burmese monk & lead the protests in the fight for democracy in that country.

He was also picked up by police for trying to smuggle rare blue tongued goannas, in his WCE underpants, out of the country.

He is having an affair with a prominent Fremantle Dockers player's wife.

That's just some of the rumours about him doing the rounds.....Stay tuned for update, because they change each day!

Answer 6

No. Why would he, he just spent all tht money on rehab and tryin to get bak to footy. There has been heaps of rumours but you shoudnt believe everything you hear.

Answer 7

I am from WA and a mad Eagles fan and read everything about them and I have never heard that and I have never heard about Broome incident.

I did hear though that a certain Melbourne club started the retirement rumours in a Victorian paper long before he was taken off the field with a hamstring and then they disappeared when Eagles didn't make the GF.

He wont retire he has worked to hard to get back into the game and he will be thinking he owes it to Mainy to prove everyone wrong no matter what he has lost a great friend and will do his best to honour him.

Answer 8

What an absolute shame that would be...he's still young, extremely fit and one of the best players in the league. I think it's the wrong decision for him...he's still got so much more to give!!!

Answer 9

Wow, that is a shock to me. He is too young to retire, he has still a lot to offer in footy.

Answer 10

I Heard That To,

I Dislike West Coast But I Respected Ben Cousins

Answer 11

I dont think Ben Cousins career will ever recover after the drug fiasco...regardless of how fit and ready he is to play.

The media are constantly on his heels and with all the pressure to perform and now the Mainwearing saga...I would'nt be suprised at all if he retired.

Answer 12

i know i should not be posing another question, but should sportsmen at the elite and highly paid end of sport be in such situations?

What of all these urine tests? Is it all a scam? Ben Cousins has been happy to side with trouble for sometime. I know he had some people really wanting to help him. Maybe not pushing someone straight back into the game would be good for all. Maybe not feeding off or attempting to feed off the media of an american rehabilitation?

I love good sport and the Eagles have been disappointing in attitude and play over the past few years. The attitude first, that they could do no wrong no matter what they did. It is so sad that such a tragedy occurred because they were all too high and too self involved to look a little more closely at their players and the true meaning of sportsmanship.

Id rather my team loose with honour than win by manipulating and overtly aggressive play. Thats why Geelong won this season. They are young players who learnt from a dramatic tragedy from the past and the club and supporters had to with that for years.

Why I wonder wasnt the Ablett senior incident enough to make the AFL and clubs really take a good look at what it means to be part of a team and what pressures are there and what can be done to assist all involved in the sport have fun, enjoy the game, reduce violence, increase skill and just create what a true sports community can be.

Our olympians have done that pretty well. There are some ups and downs there, but they work thru it. Maybe the AFL should take a year off profit and use 2008 to help clubs and players and members really decide what it means to be part of an elite sporting group and what is needed to stop thuggery and other aspects of the culture from spreading too far.

Im sorry Ben Cousins got mixed up in drugs, but if he was an olympian he would have a much longer ban. Maybe real restrictions need to be put in place to help players and society cope. Maybe we should not be taught to idolise people who can kick a ball around an oval field so much.

Maybe we should stop all this battle mentality on the field and play for skill. Maybe we should just all grow up and look at why we have become a society where football is so overwhelmingly a part of our lives. Is it that we cannot face our own realities?

If drugs play a part in good football, then its not a real game and its false idolisation. If players cannot cope without drugs is this due to the pressures of having to be in the media all the time and not just live a life like any other person except when on the field?

I think the AFL should stop playing "the boys" role in life and all GROW UP and really really look at the game and what they really want to achieve in it. Is a poster of Jim Beam on the Footy Show a good way to bring people into a community sport? What sort of community is this creating

Answer 13

No loss to football, no class. Seeya Benny!