Make room for Ben Cousins?

markp · Post: # 575729Post **markp** » Tue 27 May 2008 3:23pm

If the opportunity arose (and assuming he's healthy) we'd be mad not to.

sunsaint · Post: # 575862Post **sunsaint** » Tue 27 May 2008 5:46pm

In a word Oooh yes
He will be a perfect replacement for a retiring Harvs, while Armo gets another year under his belt.
He might even teach NDS a thing or two
I would appoint M Gardiner as his re-location minder.

Zippy · Post: # 575864Post **Zippy** » Tue 27 May 2008 5:50pm

Not a good idea - he could teach our players a lot, but nothing he teaches them would be good. Salary caps go further when players aren't funnelling lost of money to their local dealer.

degruch · Post: # 575865Post **degruch** » Tue 27 May 2008 5:52pm

I saw more sensible posts from that 'Chris Judd' character!

A crack smoking veteran who hasn't played ANY football in two years...great choice.

Dan Warna · Post: # 575868Post **Dan Warna** » Tue 27 May 2008 5:58pm

danners wrote: yeh he made mistakes and hes paying for that. if he can come back and be a changed man then i say go for it.

and would you believe him?

he refused an official sports drug test offered by Mundine's camp.

sure it was a gimmick, but it was a legal testing authority and he refused to take the test.

He has lied and lied and lied again. Would require a substantial body of evidence (ie 2 or 3 months of substantial weekly tests with a few random's thrown in) before you could say he was clean.

you can't take his word, he s a proven liar, you can't believe his dad, because his dad is EITHER a liar, or duped by his son, either way neither have cred.

plugger66 · Post: # 575869Post **plugger66** » Tue 27 May 2008 6:01pm

Dan Warna wrote:
danners wrote: yeh he made mistakes and hes paying for that. if he can come back and be a changed man then i say go for it.
and would you believe him?

he refused an official sports drug test offered by Mundine's camp.

sure it was a gimmick, but it was a legal testing authority and he refused to take the test.

He has lied and lied and lied again. Would require a substantial body of evidence (ie 2 or 3 months of substantial weekly tests with a few random's thrown in) before you could say he was clean.

you can't take his word, he s a proven liar, you can't believe his dad, because his dad is EITHER a liar, or duped by his son, either way neither have cred.

At it again Fred. yep fancy his dad sticking up for his son. What an idiot.

Ralphy · Post: # 575879Post **Ralphy** » Tue 27 May 2008 6:19pm

but you say dont pickup cousins
what about gardiner, and what he did at west coast, we gave him achance and he is right, so why not give cousins one

Dan Warna · Post: # 575881Post **Dan Warna** » Tue 27 May 2008 6:20pm

plugger66 wrote:
Dan Warna wrote:
danners wrote: yeh he made mistakes and hes paying for that. if he can come back and be a changed man then i say go for it.
and would you believe him?

he refused an official sports drug test offered by Mundine's camp.

sure it was a gimmick, but it was a legal testing authority and he refused to take the test.

He has lied and lied and lied again. Would require a substantial body of evidence (ie 2 or 3 months of substantial weekly tests with a few random's thrown in) before you could say he was clean.

you can't take his word, he s a proven liar, you can't believe his dad, because his dad is EITHER a liar, or duped by his son, either way neither have cred.
At it again Fred. yep fancy his dad sticking up for his son. What an idiot.

sure he stuck up for his son, thats up to him, doesn't make him believable does it?

He can say whatever he likes, you just can't believe what cousins dad says.

How the egg on the face must feel for those who argued 'but his dad said he was clean'

plugger66 · Post: # 575893Post **plugger66** » Tue 27 May 2008 6:25pm

Dan Warna wrote:
plugger66 wrote:
Dan Warna wrote:
danners wrote: yeh he made mistakes and hes paying for that. if he can come back and be a changed man then i say go for it.
and would you believe him?

he refused an official sports drug test offered by Mundine's camp.

sure it was a gimmick, but it was a legal testing authority and he refused to take the test.

He has lied and lied and lied again. Would require a substantial body of evidence (ie 2 or 3 months of substantial weekly tests with a few random's thrown in) before you could say he was clean.

you can't take his word, he s a proven liar, you can't believe his dad, because his dad is EITHER a liar, or duped by his son, either way neither have cred.
At it again Fred. yep fancy his dad sticking up for his son. What an idiot.
sure he stuck up for his son, thats up to him, doesn't make him believable does it?

He can say whatever he likes, you just can't believe what cousins dad says.

How the egg on the face must feel for those who argued 'but his dad said he was clean'

Why even mention his Dad. This has nothing to with him but then again Fred you have done nothing wrong in all your morallistic life. And who argued he must be clean because his Dad said it?

Dan Warna · Post: # 575906Post **Dan Warna** » Tue 27 May 2008 6:36pm

plugger66 wrote:
Why even mention his Dad. This has nothing to with him but then again Fred you have done nothing wrong in all your morallistic life. And who argued he must be clean because his Dad said it?

I said you can't believe cousins if he said he was clean, and you can't believe his dad if he said ben was clean.

As for his dad, he bought in on the arguement when he started making press releases.

thats why if he are going to take cousins we should start a program of testing.

duckduckduckgoose · Wed 28 May 2008 12:08am

I would have satan himself lining up at CHF if he was a decent set shot.

anything to get us closer to a flag.

Iceman234 · Post: # 576248Post **Iceman234** » Wed 28 May 2008 12:25am

Arrogant, lying, cheating, drug-using piece of absolute shyt.

Would be the first Saint ever I would boo if he took to the field in our jumper.

Can't stand the obnoxious snorting little turd.

Would hate to see him with us - FFS we are supposed to be making a new start.

Yeah hire the worst cheating junky piece of shyt this league has seen - ever in the history.

FFS give me Justin Charles any day.

Ben Cousins = spit.

saintsRrising · Wed 28 May 2008 12:46am

Richter wrote:Pick him up in the post-season draft - the way we're going we'll have a top pick.

Would Cousins be in the main draft rather than the PSD???

As such would you want to give up a first round selection to secure him?

Saint_Bronx · Wed 28 May 2008 12:50am

i think it would be more sensible to focus on getting some young talent rather then going for a quick fix with Ben Cousins. this will be our last chane in a while to pick up some decent kids with the concessions gold coast will get

Iceman234 · Post: # 576268Post **Iceman234** » Wed 28 May 2008 12:51am

saintsRrising wrote:
Richter wrote:Pick him up in the post-season draft - the way we're going we'll have a top pick.
Would Cousins be in the main draft rather than the PSD???

As such would you want to give up a first round selection to secure him?

I'd give up a Glad Wrap zip-lock bag for the shot of Narcaine that saves that little turd's life before he pulls on our colours.

That's all I'd trade.

Scum and he doesn't deserve to be a Saint - ever.

congorozides · Wed 28 May 2008 10:59am

duckduckduckgoose wrote:I would have satan himself lining up at CHF if he was a decent set shot.

anything to get us closer to a flag.

Red · Post: # 576392Post **Red** » Wed 28 May 2008 11:10am

Dan Warna is right short term solution.

However Dan you keep trying to make your opinion on the guy sound like

facts - which we both know aren't true.

Dan Warna · Post: # 576402Post **Dan Warna** » Wed 28 May 2008 11:18am

Red wrote:Dan Warna is right short term solution.

However Dan you keep trying to make your opinion on the guy sound like

facts - which we both know aren't true.

what facts aren't true?

would you believe ben cousins if he said he was clean?

would you beileve ben cousins if his dad said he was clean?

congorozides · Wed 28 May 2008 2:15pm

Saint_Bronx wrote:i think it would be more sensible to focus on getting some young talent rather then going for a quick fix with Ben Cousins. this will be our last chane in a while to pick up some decent kids with the concessions gold coast will get

"quick fix". good use of the double entendre

degruch · Post: # 576580Post **degruch** » Wed 28 May 2008 2:19pm

saintsRrising wrote:
Richter wrote:Pick him up in the post-season draft - the way we're going we'll have a top pick.
Would Cousins be in the main draft rather than the PSD???

As such would you want to give up a first round selection to secure him?

Actaully, I think he'd prefer to be into LSD, man

duckduckduckgoose · Thu 28 Aug 2008 11:30pm

old thread- new news.... i ask again- do we want him???

Batnoe · Post: # 629846Post **Batnoe** » Thu 28 Aug 2008 11:48pm

congorozides wrote:
evertonfc wrote:
Hurricane wrote:I agree that the Pies will probably scoop him up.
Is that because they've got the strength of culture to handle such types (Didak, Wellingham, etc) and get the best from them?
yep. and they can probably carry another older guy on their list cos they have a quite a few youngsters.

plus the personal connection with malthouse and cousins (he used to coach him remember)

coach him? his best mate is MG

that is our biggest draw card
keep MG to get BC

he has plenty of years left just because he wants to prove people wrong

we have harvey retiring, he is an already made and fit player to fill his void

Moccha · Post: # 629849Post **Moccha** » Thu 28 Aug 2008 11:49pm

I reckon we should recruit him. Has at least 3 yrs left minimum, probably up to 5 given the condition he's in. Brilliant footballer and everyone deserves a chance at redemption, so before you starting throwing stones make sure the walls aren't made of glass.

Teflon · Post: # 629856Post **Teflon** » Thu 28 Aug 2008 11:52pm

IF Kerr isnt across the line for Carlton......why wouldn a st kilda be going hammer and tong for him?

Hes 24/25? got years, is CLASS now and injury free could win a brownlow.

Kerr please.

Batnoe · Post: # 629859Post **Batnoe** » Thu 28 Aug 2008 11:54pm

Teflon wrote:IF Kerr isnt across the line for Carlton......why wouldn a st kilda be going hammer and tong for him?

Hes 24/25? got years, is CLASS now and injury free could win a brownlow.

Kerr please.

500k? or 100K

i would say our best chance of a premiership is in the next 2 years.. why wait for 5 years? lets get it now then we have now... i dont care if we top up, win a flag and then dont win another game for 2 years, at least we will have one