TimeToShineFellas wrote:evertonfc wrote:Whoever signs him will have the job of looking after him.
How about he starts looking after himself for a change. Have the guts as a man to make the decision to change his ways.
Amazing that a 29 year old elite sportsman still needs to be handled with kid gloves.
That's the problem though isn't it? Ben Cousins cannot be trusted to look after himself, and as a 29 year old is an elite sportsman who needs to be handled with kid gloves.
Cousins has a drug problem. People are not convinced he's more interested in playing footy than in taking drugs. We know that he's (for now) capable of doing both, but that's not the offer - so can Ben be trusted to focus only on footy and not take drugs?
Since the answer is no more than any other drug addict, the answer is no. So, kid gloves it has to be: you can get an elite midfielder for free (assuming AFL doesn't stop it), but you'll have to babysit him and make sure he doesn't fall off the wagon.
He gets the handling because of what he can give you.
Which is why if I were advising Cousins, it would be to go nowhere near a footy field for at least 12 months, and build another kind of life. For mine, that's the decision that would say he's grown up and made a choice.