In the context of the interview, Nixon was commenting about BennyBoy's arrest, he was replying to a question as to if he had concerns about BennyBoy staying in Perth.evertonfc wrote:Mr Magic wrote:I heard Ricky Nixon talk about this on 3AW the night BennyBoy was arrested and the story was a little different, if my recollections are accurate.evertonfc wrote:Apparently a Victorian club (it seems common knowledge it was us) put in a bid for Cousins on the last day of trade week.Mr Magic wrote:I don't believe that BennyBoy has shown any indication publicly that he is looking for a 'change of scenery'. He was more than happy to remain in Perth living his own lifestyle. It was the WCE who terminated him, and not him wanting to leave so that he could 'turn his life around'
Cousins was very enthusiastic when told by his manager, went to talk to Worsfold about it, but he knocked the deal on the head.
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Nixon suggested to BennyBoy well prior to Trade Week that maybe he should move to a Melbourne based Club (and whilst he didn't name the club, speculation is that it was us). Nixon then approached some Clubs and one of them expressed an interest in discussing it further. BennyBoy then went to Worsfold and was told he was a required player so that was the end of the story - according to Nixon.
Why would Nixon be fishing if Cousins was so keen on staying in Perth?
Cousins is now a crack junkie in downtown LA? Version 2
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Fair point.Richter wrote:Do you really think this is likely? Publically? What does AA stand for? The point is for a person to admit to their peers/fellow sufferers that they have a problem in a CONFIDENTIAL setting - not relevant for Joe Bloggs to hear about it from him on national TV. You really think that Benny is ever going to be ANONYMOUS. Fair dinkum, think before you write........Mr Magic wrote: I'm told that recovering alcoholics who join AA have to publicly stand up and admit their addiction.
we didn't offer anything ....nixon approached the club...got canned before it got off the ground...thank god.......some pple will believe anything......
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well if there were negotiations between st kilda and cousins and our pick 2 had already gone, what were we going to offer?evertonfc wrote:I suppose we offered pick 9 + Montagna, eh Dan?Dan Warna wrote:well thats good then because we would have traded draft picks if it was in the trading period and have ended up with a deregistered player.
our round 3 pick? if WCE were going to trade a player of the calibre of cousins for a round 3 pick they must know something, alternatively our first round pick? even then for a player of cousins calibre thats pretty light on.
end results = we would have been dealing with a deregistered cousins and fighting the AFL and WCE for our draft pick back or getting cousins re-registered.
or did you think we would have got him for free in the trading period Everton eh?
did you think wCE would have just handed over cousins in the trading period? if what is posted here as cousins being a required player...
well john did us a favour because cousins is de registered adn we still hvae our first round pick.
Bewaire krime, da krimson bolt is comeing to yure nayborhood to smach krime
SHUT UP KRIME!
SHUT UP KRIME!
According to Fox Sports News, the AFL have charged Cousins with bringing the game into disrepute and he will have to face the AFL Commission on 19 November to answer the case.
Link to the Herald-Sun story below
http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/ ... 61,00.html
Link to the Herald-Sun story below
http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/ ... 61,00.html
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You haven't added any credibility to what you posted on here and on BigFooty about us offering Cousins for Pick 9 & Montagna.Dan Warna wrote:well john did us a favour because cousins is de registered adn we still hvae our first round pick.
It's a crazy offer. But I want to know why you think that was our offer, as you've previously stated.
FYI - He hasn't been de-registered. The charge was largely predictable, but whether he is banned from the game remains to be seen.
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Ben Cousins mystery blonde
Article from: The Daily Telegraph
By Peta Hellard in Los Angeles
November 01, 2007 11:00pm
THE mystery blonde at the centre of Ben Cousins' controversial trip to Los Angeles has been identified - but denies the troubled star is staying with her.
Susie Ela, 39, was the woman who picked up Cousins from Los Angeles International Airport on Saturday morning and whisked him away.
Cousins, 29, failed to check in for his second stint of rehab at Malibu's Summit Centre on Monday and it was reported yesterday that staff are worried for his safety.
His father Bryan admitted yesterday that his son was not at the facility but he denied the sacked West Coast Eagles star was missing.
"The facts are these: Ben is not missing and has not been missing at any time whilst in the US," he said in Perth.
"I and my family have spoken to him regularly. And I spoke to him myself late last night.
"I have always known exactly where he is.
"He is currently receiving treatment in Los Angeles at an appropriate facility, and he will be attending The Summit medical centre in the next few days."
The Courier-Mail tracked down Ms Ela yesterday at her multi-million dollar home in the upmarket seaside suburb of Hermosa Beach, just south of LA.
The leggy blonde hurled expletive-filled abuse at a photographer before screaming "no comment" as she drove inside her security garage and rushed inside her four-storey mansion, where she lives alone.
Ms Ela - who was wearing slim jeans, a blazer and trendy hat - was driving the same black Mercedes sports car which was used to pick up Cousins from the airport, when she was joined by a female friend.
During a phone conversation earlier in the day, Ms Ela denied knowing about the concerns for Cousins' wellbeing. "Ben is not here," she said before hanging up.
A neighbour, who said that Ms Ela worked in the computer industry, said: "There are always men coming and going from her place."
Article from: The Daily Telegraph
By Peta Hellard in Los Angeles
November 01, 2007 11:00pm
THE mystery blonde at the centre of Ben Cousins' controversial trip to Los Angeles has been identified - but denies the troubled star is staying with her.
Susie Ela, 39, was the woman who picked up Cousins from Los Angeles International Airport on Saturday morning and whisked him away.
Cousins, 29, failed to check in for his second stint of rehab at Malibu's Summit Centre on Monday and it was reported yesterday that staff are worried for his safety.
His father Bryan admitted yesterday that his son was not at the facility but he denied the sacked West Coast Eagles star was missing.
"The facts are these: Ben is not missing and has not been missing at any time whilst in the US," he said in Perth.
"I and my family have spoken to him regularly. And I spoke to him myself late last night.
"I have always known exactly where he is.
"He is currently receiving treatment in Los Angeles at an appropriate facility, and he will be attending The Summit medical centre in the next few days."
The Courier-Mail tracked down Ms Ela yesterday at her multi-million dollar home in the upmarket seaside suburb of Hermosa Beach, just south of LA.
The leggy blonde hurled expletive-filled abuse at a photographer before screaming "no comment" as she drove inside her security garage and rushed inside her four-storey mansion, where she lives alone.
Ms Ela - who was wearing slim jeans, a blazer and trendy hat - was driving the same black Mercedes sports car which was used to pick up Cousins from the airport, when she was joined by a female friend.
During a phone conversation earlier in the day, Ms Ela denied knowing about the concerns for Cousins' wellbeing. "Ben is not here," she said before hanging up.
A neighbour, who said that Ms Ela worked in the computer industry, said: "There are always men coming and going from her place."
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I've been told that the stuff Benny Boy is allegedly addicted to is undetectable after about 6-8 hours and this is why he has never been caught by the AFL Drug Testers. Is this true?
Also, a point that was largely overlooked the day he got arrested was that he had almost $4,000 in cash on him at the time. Does anyone else think that to be a large ammount to be carrying at 11.30am or am I just a bit odd? !!
Also, a point that was largely overlooked the day he got arrested was that he had almost $4,000 in cash on him at the time. Does anyone else think that to be a large ammount to be carrying at 11.30am or am I just a bit odd? !!
there is an interesting story in today's herald sun by damian barrett saying that he hopes what has happened to benny boy gives a wake up call to another young footballer that we all know....has similar problems to benny..
he also states that there is ample evidence to suggest that there are up to three players at each club who regularly partake of illegal substances...doesn't say what the proof is though,,,,hope he is wrong..but i have a sneaky suspicion that he is closer to the truth than those claiming that their clubs are clean.....
he also states that there is ample evidence to suggest that there are up to three players at each club who regularly partake of illegal substances...doesn't say what the proof is though,,,,hope he is wrong..but i have a sneaky suspicion that he is closer to the truth than those claiming that their clubs are clean.....
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Cousins gives AFL no choice
03 November 2007 Herald Sun
Damian Barrett
HOPEFULLY at some stage today, a young AFL player will take time to absorb what so-called party drugs have done to Ben Cousins.
Grounded: Ben Cousins.
Hopefully the player, who is clearly running out of control himself, will analyse the Cousins story and become aware his career, too, may soon be finished.
While there is ample evidence to suggest as many as three players per club, on average, are regularly dabbling with illegal substances, the name of one is constantly referred to by those who work in and around football.
It seems the only person not aware of the potential dangers is the player himself, which is why he simply has to learn from the sad demise of Cousins.
Given the soap opera his life has become - including rumours of a romance with Hollywood star Cameron Diaz, a second stint of drug rehabilitation in Los Angeles, a police arrest captured by TV cameras - the reaction to the AFL charging Cousins with bringing the game in to disrepute last night was almost: so what?
But, slowly analyse the demise of this 29-year-old.
Think back just two years. To the night he achieved football's highest individual honour, the 2005 Brownlow Medal.
How can he be all but officially lost to the game just 26 months later?
The AFL had no choice but to charge Cousins after his failure to provide a blood sample for Perth police two weeks ago.
Conditions that were established upon allowing him to return to football, after his club had indefinitely suspended him for drug-related problems, in Round 16 this year did not provide leeway for such a confrontation with police.
The AFL has been under massive pressure this year for its too-lenient three-strike illicit drugs policy.
At least on the same day as Cricket Australia heeded the requests of its own cricketers and introduced the near-perfect drugs policy, the AFL was prepared - finally - to get tough on its most notorious drug user.
Deep down, the AFL didn't want Cousins to return to football this year, but it knew that to keep him out would have opened it up to a legal challenge from Cousins.
It is known Cousins' lawyers would have asked the courts to determine why he was being barred from playing, despite not being detected under the AFL's drugs policy, while 25 other players who had tested positive in the past two years had a green light to play.
The AFL Commission has full discretion on how to deal with Cousins when it convenes on November 19.
It may even opt for a life ban, and if it did, no one, really, could argue with it, for Cousins had been given ample opportunities this year.
In many ways, though, the sanction it imposes is irrelevant, for Cousins won't play again anyway. No team would take the risk now.
Cousins has brought down a lot of people in this drug-induced fall.
Carnage is everywhere. Imagine what his parents go through each day.
Note the strain in Trevor Nisbett's face.
Look at his club and ask yourself why Chris Judd was so quick to leave.
There needs to be at least one good to come out of it, though.
If only that young footballer looks at what Cousins has become and realises he needs to stop heading down the same path.
Cousins gives AFL no choice
03 November 2007 Herald Sun
Damian Barrett
HOPEFULLY at some stage today, a young AFL player will take time to absorb what so-called party drugs have done to Ben Cousins.
Grounded: Ben Cousins.
Hopefully the player, who is clearly running out of control himself, will analyse the Cousins story and become aware his career, too, may soon be finished.
While there is ample evidence to suggest as many as three players per club, on average, are regularly dabbling with illegal substances, the name of one is constantly referred to by those who work in and around football.
It seems the only person not aware of the potential dangers is the player himself, which is why he simply has to learn from the sad demise of Cousins.
Given the soap opera his life has become - including rumours of a romance with Hollywood star Cameron Diaz, a second stint of drug rehabilitation in Los Angeles, a police arrest captured by TV cameras - the reaction to the AFL charging Cousins with bringing the game in to disrepute last night was almost: so what?
But, slowly analyse the demise of this 29-year-old.
Think back just two years. To the night he achieved football's highest individual honour, the 2005 Brownlow Medal.
How can he be all but officially lost to the game just 26 months later?
The AFL had no choice but to charge Cousins after his failure to provide a blood sample for Perth police two weeks ago.
Conditions that were established upon allowing him to return to football, after his club had indefinitely suspended him for drug-related problems, in Round 16 this year did not provide leeway for such a confrontation with police.
The AFL has been under massive pressure this year for its too-lenient three-strike illicit drugs policy.
At least on the same day as Cricket Australia heeded the requests of its own cricketers and introduced the near-perfect drugs policy, the AFL was prepared - finally - to get tough on its most notorious drug user.
Deep down, the AFL didn't want Cousins to return to football this year, but it knew that to keep him out would have opened it up to a legal challenge from Cousins.
It is known Cousins' lawyers would have asked the courts to determine why he was being barred from playing, despite not being detected under the AFL's drugs policy, while 25 other players who had tested positive in the past two years had a green light to play.
The AFL Commission has full discretion on how to deal with Cousins when it convenes on November 19.
It may even opt for a life ban, and if it did, no one, really, could argue with it, for Cousins had been given ample opportunities this year.
In many ways, though, the sanction it imposes is irrelevant, for Cousins won't play again anyway. No team would take the risk now.
Cousins has brought down a lot of people in this drug-induced fall.
Carnage is everywhere. Imagine what his parents go through each day.
Note the strain in Trevor Nisbett's face.
Look at his club and ask yourself why Chris Judd was so quick to leave.
There needs to be at least one good to come out of it, though.
If only that young footballer looks at what Cousins has become and realises he needs to stop heading down the same path.