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will be dropped against Ben on Monday morning...
chicpea
19 Oct 2007, 13:47
source?
chicpea
19 Oct 2007, 13:49
is there a report somewhere?! ..
does this also mean the case is no longer adjourned and ovER?
Still has to face charges relating to failing to have a drug test...
Simon Beaumont has been stating that he believes that the club terminated his contract more for who Ben has been associating with than anything else...
Read into that what you will...
Belnakor
19 Oct 2007, 13:53
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Juddyzthebest
19 Oct 2007, 13:53
wtf
it keeps getting better and better.
Juddism
19 Oct 2007, 13:55
yea just heard the same...charges of the tablets will be dropped.
just saw this on the wide world of sports website
it says details to follow
this throws a spanner in the works
chicpea
19 Oct 2007, 13:55
either way .. i think it was still the right decision :(
chicpea
19 Oct 2007, 13:56
theres already a thread for this ! :D
94_Eagles
19 Oct 2007, 13:57
Unsack him now Nisbett.
Unsack him now Nisbett.
Won't happen. Cousins is gone for good.
greennick
19 Oct 2007, 14:00
I don't know if they terminated the contract because of it, however the fact he was wasted may have had something to do with it. ;)
Otherwise, why did he not go and take an ASDA test right away if he did not trust the Cops to do it? He was ****ed!
West Coast 06
19 Oct 2007, 14:01
He is the teflon kid isn't he? Nothing ever sticks to this guy!
I bet he gets off the failing to take a drug test charge as well. Being as he is the first one to be charged with the offence, his lawyers will be working feverishly to find a loop hole no-one has thought about yet.
This is part of the bigger problem for Ben, people keep saying he is not above the law, but somehow he keeps proving he is.
Either way, I'm glad he is gone.
chicpea
19 Oct 2007, 14:02
i always wonder why supporters like freo supporters who have nothing to be proud of on and off field put in so many of their opinions.
Juddism
19 Oct 2007, 14:04
Unsack him now Nisbett.
he still failed to cooperate with the police regarding the blood test...
wce4premiership
19 Oct 2007, 14:10
Did the eagles jump the gun or what?
Why not wait till the court cases are over?
Juddism
19 Oct 2007, 14:13
Did the eagles jump the gun or what?
Why not wait till the court cases are over?
no..he still refused to give the drug assessment which is just as damaging.
West Coast 06
19 Oct 2007, 14:13
Did the eagles jump the gun or what?
Why not wait till the court cases are over?
There is no way you could wait until January to sort this out. It had to be done, it was done, it wont be un-done.
Lets just try and have a preseason without incident! Please..:o
Did the eagles jump the gun or what?
Why not wait till the court cases are over?
He has been sacked for a separate indiscretion.
He was spotted with a person or persons which were unacceptable under the terms under the contract he signed.
Mr Eagle
19 Oct 2007, 14:14
Did the eagles jump the gun or what?
Why not wait till the court cases are over?
Probably because "getting another conviction" wasn't the condition of his new contract on which they chose to sack him. "Failure to cooperate with the police" or something like that would be much more likely, if we are to believe the claimed strictness of the deal he made to get back into the fold.
daddy_4_eyes
19 Oct 2007, 14:17
I wonder if he can sue the police/government for loss of income as them arresting him led directly to his sacking?
Mastablingbling
19 Oct 2007, 14:18
Pathetic situation :thumbsd:
Won't happen. Cousins is gone for good.
Unfortunately I think your right.
I don't want to see him leave the way he did, but its the way it is. If we could take him back, I would this second. :(
Birds of Prey
19 Oct 2007, 14:37
Cuz has been screwed over on this, what happens if the cops drop the other charge as well?? will he be given an apology from all including the AFL??:mad:
SUCH IS LIFE.........in Perth!
Pathetic situation :thumbsd:
Yep.
Juddism
19 Oct 2007, 14:55
Cuz has been screwed over on this, what happens if the cops drop the other charge as well?? will he be given an apology from all including the AFL??:mad:
SUCH IS LIFE.........in Perth!
have you forgotten that he FAILED to submit for a drug test...he screwed himself over by refusing that simple request.
GiveGasTheFlick
19 Oct 2007, 14:55
Sack Nisbett bring back Ben
Star_is_Braun
19 Oct 2007, 14:56
Tell ****n Patrick Smith to shove that up his arse!! Whats the next article gonna say???
GiveGasTheFlick
19 Oct 2007, 15:00
Tell ****n Patrick Smith to shove that up his arse!! Whats the next article gonna say???That tool is allways shooting himself in the foot **** patrick smith he's a nothing man
Keyser Soze
19 Oct 2007, 15:02
Tell ****n Patrick Smith to shove that up his arse!! Whats the next article gonna say???
West Coast acted too hastily and jumped to conclusions.
Hence they should not be allowed to draft any new kids because they have a habit of sacking players without good reason.
astro_toby
19 Oct 2007, 15:08
either way the right decision was made by the club:thumbsu:
you all can move on from this shit - no cousins, no chick, no gardiner - the club has a great chance of re-inventing itself.
West Coast acted too hastily and jumped to conclusions.
Hence they should not be allowed to draft any new kids because they have a habit of sacking players without good reason.
Hahaha. :thumbsu:
i have a feeling that wc will keep him. they'll act like theres no chance of him coming back but around the period of the draft and the pre season draft they keep him in.
i have a feeling that wc will keep him. they'll act like theres no chance of him coming back but around the period of the draft and the pre season draft they keep him in.
More chance they will draft me mate.
Sad to think but Benny wont be pulling on the Eagles jumper ever again.
He wont go to another club either.
either way the right decision was made by the club:thumbsu:
you all can move on from this shit - no cousins, no chick, no gardiner - the club has a great chance of re-inventing itself.
Well said :thumbsu:
If Cousins can sort himself out I hope to hell he can make it back and be picked up by another club, it's heartbreaking to know he'll never be in our colours again but I want to see him out there tearing up the field no matter who he plays for.
greennick
19 Oct 2007, 15:17
West Coast acted too hastily and jumped to conclusions.
Hence they should not be allowed to draft any new kids because they have a habit of sacking players without good reason.
LOL, I read the above and was thinking you can't be serious! And then I read what you quoted and realised that is what Patrick Smith would say. :D
Elite Pete
19 Oct 2007, 15:38
This is a joke we kicked out the best player to play for the club with out getting all the news and without even talking to him. This club is getting run by morons time to get them out and in with the new if they have done it with the players. Bring Cuz back until the correct action can be taken with the full facts. That if he even wants to come back now.
SurftheWorld
19 Oct 2007, 15:42
have you forgotten that he FAILED to submit for a drug test...he screwed himself over by refusing that simple request.
Yeah he Failed to submit for a drug test.... but why should he if he thinks he is unjustly being victimised. He wasn’t driving the car, he was a passenger, the drugs charge is being dropped and mark my word the following charges will also be dropped as the case has fallen apart. Simple reason why....... he was a passenger, they should have charged the driver. Eagles, you have just made a very bad mistake by letting your gun go, even if he did get taken back into the club, he wont go back. Oh... and what happened to innocent till proven guilty, another reason why the Eagles board are a shambles, and then just to add to it, why after all the controversy over the recent leaking of [deleted] players private medical records and the AFL's 3 strikes policy has Ben not been offered the same courtesy where his matters are still regarded as private matters. Where is the AFL players union NOW??? Remember one thing people, he has never returned a positive drug test.... another trial by media!!!
Flymaster
19 Oct 2007, 15:52
Yeah he Failed to submit for a drug test.... but why should he if he thinks he is unjustly being victimised. He wasn’t driving the car, he was a passenger, the drugs charge is being dropped and mark my word the following charges will also be dropped as the case has fallen apart. Simple reason why....... he was a passenger, they should have charged the driver. Eagles, you have just made a very bad mistake by letting your gun go, even if he did get taken back into the club, he wont go back. Oh... and what happened to innocent till proven guilty, another reason why the Eagles board are a shambles, and then just to add to it, why after all the controversy over the recent leaking of [deleted] players private medical records and the AFL's 3 strikes policy has Ben not been offered the same courtesy where his matters are still regarded as private matters. Where is the AFL players union NOW??? Remember one thing people, he has never returned a positive drug test.... another trial by media!!!
Cousins will not sue the Eagles and if he did I think you would find out that the real reason he was terminated had little to do with these recent police charges. Remember, he was terminated for breaching his contract so at the end of the day the answer lies in what those terms were...relates to who he was associating with.
Flymaster
19 Oct 2007, 16:03
Still has to face charges relating to failing to have a drug test...
Simon Beaumont has been stating that he believes that the club terminated his contract more for who Ben has been associating with than anything else...
Read into that what you will...
If the "drugs" charge gets dropped then the second charge (failure to take a driver assessment) will struggle to get up on the basis that the police did not have the requisite grounds to request it.
Well the Eagles have sacked him and the AFL won't deregister him, so my bet is he will either have a year off and enter the draft, or he will enter the PSD draft now and join his new team after 90 days in Malibu.
Juddism
19 Oct 2007, 16:06
Yeah he Failed to submit for a drug test.... but why should he if he thinks he is unjustly being victimised. He wasn’t driving the car, he was a passenger, the drugs charge is being dropped and mark my word the following charges will also be dropped as the case has fallen apart. Simple reason why....... he was a passenger, they should have charged the driver. Eagles, you have just made a very bad mistake by letting your gun go, even if he did get taken back into the club, he wont go back. Oh... and what happened to innocent till proven guilty, another reason why the Eagles board are a shambles, and then just to add to it, why after all the controversy over the recent leaking of [deleted] players private medical records and the AFL's 3 strikes policy has Ben not been offered the same courtesy where his matters are still regarded as private matters. Where is the AFL players union NOW??? Remember one thing people, he has never returned a positive drug test.... another trial by media!!!
ummm...you make less sense now, you assert that he wasn't driving the car..if that's the case then the police have no need to ask for a breath test or a driver assessment. The only reason he would've been asked for the driver assessment is to determine his fitness to be DRIVING the car. If he wasn't driving they'd never have asked because its NOT illegal to have drugs in your system in WA unless operating a car, truck, motor-bike, boat or plane.
So who was driving the car? Daniel Chick? other? Jesus? or the girl? Chick was pulled over driving his own car, Cousins was pulled over driving his car and so-on...that's unless the entire circus of building workers are all lying?
Juddism
19 Oct 2007, 16:09
If the "drugs" charge gets dropped then the second charge (failure to take a driver assessment) will struggle to get up on the basis that the police did not have the requisite grounds to request it.
they did have grounds...for **** sake the only reason that assessment is asked for is in relation to fitness to operate the vehicle. The police obviously suspected that he shouldn't have been driving and asked for it...it has NOTHING to do with the possession charge.
Baby bomber
19 Oct 2007, 16:09
Eagles supporters dont stand for this your champion is being singled out!!
This always looked like a "trumped up charge" - the police have been putting pressure on Cousins for years trying to get him to "dob" on some of his bikie mate connections.
Look at the circumstances - 3 car loads of "Bikie Gang Buster" Police teams pull over both Cousins and Chick's cars - several kms apart, but at the same time - and both are pulled over on the basis that "they were (both) seen to have been driving erratically".
What a load of rubbish. They then didn't find anything in either car other than a prescription drug in Cousins car. But they made a total "dog and pony show" of the arrest taking more than 2 hours to complete the search in front of media groups - who had probably been tipped off even before the cars were pulled over ? It was designed as career assassination - nothing less. Do you think our Police have lost the respect of a lot of people over this exercise - you bet ! The younger folk will be particularly cynical !
Boy from the West
19 Oct 2007, 16:13
He has been sacked for a separate indiscretion.
He was spotted with a person or persons which were unacceptable under the terms under the contract he signed.
Source please? I am unaware that any statement from the club advised this.
Don't get me wrong, I think we had to get rid of him but I think we are short on facts and long on innuendo and rumour.
The drug charge (singular) will be dropped according to his lawyer. All that remains is that he refused to comply with an assesment test - similar to refusing a breath test.
The circumstances where he was stopped in the middle of Northbridge and his car searched for 45 minutes (some say longer) and made to look like a common criminal when, and his argument will be that he was not committing any offence and the cops were acting maliciously etc, so he felt that he should not comply with the request. His argument not mine.
Everyone has a story about Cousins' behaviour and some will be factual and actually witnessed while most will be second or fifteenth hand chinese whispers.
I would just like the club to come out and say why they sacked him so that we can all file it and move on.
Make it clean and it will be over. While it is still messy, it will linger.
spEKTre
19 Oct 2007, 16:13
Here we go again all these so called armchair experts justifying his sacking without the facts to come out..like I said in another topic that got closed UNSACK COUSINS NOW!!!!!!!
Until you have all the facts and ones that are legal and not f*cking hearsay you can't change a guys employment..liveliehood no matter if he was found with the hypo needle's in his hand <--- see he may have pulled the needle out of a dying junkies arm to save him.
I wanna just say that it sickens me to see a club legend get burried and noone bothered to check the pulse!!!
Keyser Soze
19 Oct 2007, 16:23
Here we go again all these so called armchair experts justifying his sacking without the facts to come out..like I said in another topic that got closed UNSACK COUSINS NOW!!!!!!!
Until you have all the facts and ones that are legal and not f*cking hearsay you can't change a guys employment..liveliehood no matter if he was found with the hypo needle's in his hand <--- see he may have pulled the needle out of a dying junkies arm to save him.
I wanna just say that it sickens me to see a club legend get burried and noone bothered to check the pulse!!!
Perhaps if Cousins had contacted the club on Wednesday and explained what actually happened, then they may have been able to come to a different conclusion, or at least held fire. But he didn't despite Mark Barnaba stating in presser on Wednesday that he personally tried to contact Cousins without success.
I suspect there is more to it than just Tuesday's arrest, but that the arrest was ultimately the trigger that fired an already loaded gun.
There has been all sorts of speculation about Cousins' before since our season ended and the club may simply grown tired of the negative attention that Ben brought upon himself and the club.
I don't know any of this for fact and I'm merely speculating, as you are, but I seriously doubt that Cousins being arrested was the sole reason for the club terminating his contract.
Mastablingbling
19 Oct 2007, 16:27
Perhaps if Cousins had contacted the club on Wednesday and explained what actually happened, then they may have been able to come to a different conclusion, or at least held fire. But he didn't despite Mark Barnaba stating in presser on Wednesday that he personally tried to contact Cousins without success.
I suspect there is more to it than just Tuesday's arrest, but that the arrest was ultimately the trigger that fired an already loaded gun.
There has been all sorts of speculation about Cousins' before since our season ended and the club may simply grown tired of the negative attention that Ben brought upon himself and the club.
I don't know any of this for fact and I'm merely speculating, as you are, but I seriously doubt that Cousins being arrested was the sole reason for the club terminating his contract.
Negative attention?
Yeh, that's what you call it, when a handful of detectives pull you over in broad daylight and search your car only to find NOTHING.
How could he have avoided such negative attention in this instance?
greennick
19 Oct 2007, 16:30
Negative attention?
Yeh, that's what you call it, when a handful of detectives pull you over in broad daylight and search your car only to find NOTHING.
How could he have avoided such negative attention in this instance?
I think by negative attention he means all the rumours, the Mainy incident, the fact he looked on drugs when he was arrested (be that rightly or wrongly), and so on...
SurftheWorld
19 Oct 2007, 16:31
ummm...you make less sense now, you assert that he wasn't driving the car..if that's the case then the police have no need to ask for a breath test or a driver assessment. The only reason he would've been asked for the driver assessment is to determine his fitness to be DRIVING the car. If he wasn't driving they'd never have asked because its NOT illegal to have drugs in your system in WA unless operating a car, truck, motor-bike, boat or plane.
So who was driving the car? Daniel Chick? other? Jesus? or the girl? Chick was pulled over driving his own car, Cousins was pulled over driving his car and so-on...that's unless the entire circus of building workers are all lying?
Relax buddy, just going off what I read
"Quote:http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,22595382-601,00.html
According to workers at a nearby construction site, he was sitting in the back seat of the car with his shirt off when the car was pulled over. A young unidentified brunette was driving the vehicle at the time of the incident.
Cousins sat in the back of the vehicle for at least an hour, the workers said, before he left with police. He was led away in handcuffs. According to workers at a nearby construction site, he was sitting in the back seat of the car with his shirt off when the car was pulled over. A young unidentified brunette was driving the vehicle at the time of the incident. "
As there are mixed reports, it does seem as though he was driving the car, but their case is flawed and mark my words again, these charges will be dropped, might take time but watch this space. I dont think the eagles board realise yet what they have just lost.....
Whoever mentions that the sacking was done not just because of this indiscretion is talking diarrhea, they sacked him after the arrest without even speaking to him to get his story of the event, the eagles board admitted that. He only found out he was sacked via his father, now are you sure the board aren't questioning their pre-emptive decision to get rid of him, I would be. Another example of corporate heads making footballing decisions.
Here we go again all these so called armchair experts justifying his sacking without the facts to come out..like I said in another topic that got closed UNSACK COUSINS NOW!!!!!!!
Until you have all the facts and ones that are legal and not f*cking hearsay you can't change a guys employment..liveliehood no matter if he was found with the hypo needle's in his hand <--- see he may have pulled the needle out of a dying junkies arm to save him.
I wanna just say that it sickens me to see a club legend get burried and noone bothered to check the pulse!!!
What?
You cant sack him because you dont know the facts yet you want him re-instated when you dont know the facts.
Want a fact?
He's been sacked and he's not coming back. Why?
Continued breaches of his contract, one of which was being seen, continually with people outlined in his contract as unacceptable.
Johnny Utah #9
19 Oct 2007, 16:43
West Coast acted too hastily and jumped to conclusions.
Hence they should not be allowed to draft any new kids because they have a habit of sacking players without good reason.
Whilst it's great news for Cousins that the drug charges have been dropped, it still a case of too late.
He once again was reluctant to help police with their enquiries as shown by his refusal to submit to a blood test. This alone is enough for the club to sack him as he has on numerous times defied police instruction.
The guy has been on drugs for years, everyone knows it. Only now is the club making the tough decision it has avoided for so long.
Juddism
19 Oct 2007, 16:48
either way you punch the numbers he's been hanging out with some dodgy people...
"The following drugs were seized from the vehicle: OxyContin, which is a prohibited drug, diazepam, Viagra ... and a $20 note which preliminary indications and analysis show traces of MDMA, which is ecstasy and cocaine," he said in Perth.
OxyContin is the brand name for oxycodone, an opioid analgesic painkiller.
http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,22613627-29277,00.html
either way you punch the numbers he's been hanging out with some dodgy people...
http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,22613627-29277,00.html
Should everyone who hangs out with Ben Cousins be sacked too? Do we judge people by the company they keep? I know a few druggies. Does that mean im a druggie too
Juddism
19 Oct 2007, 16:53
Should everyone who hangs out with Ben Cousins be sacked too? Do we judge people by the company they keep? I know a few druggies. Does that mean im a druggie too
you haven't been to a $3000 a day rehab facility or had your father on TV admitting you have a substance problem, have you? I think the board made it fairly clear that he was NOT to associate with certain types of people given his current state...looks to me like he's been doing just that!
Obeanie1
19 Oct 2007, 16:59
Whilst it's great news for Cousins that the drug charges have been dropped, it still a case of too late.
He once again was reluctant to help police with their enquiries as shown by his refusal to submit to a blood test. This alone is enough for the club to sack him as he has on numerous times defied police instruction.
The guy has been on drugs for years, everyone knows it. Only now is the club making the tough decision it has avoided for so long.
This is getting ridiculous.
The more that comes out it looks more and more like a deliberate career assasination by the WA police. WTF are these guys up to, leaked police tapes on Edwards and Kerr, Cousins being set up with half the states major crime unit following him and obviously a phone call was made to ensure a media circus.:eek: Someone should check these cops and see what AFL memberships they hold:mad:
The media are acting like ravid lunatics just to sell papers.:thumbsd:
If all charges are dropped no way can the AFL level sactions against the club. Cousins sacking will most likely stand but that too has to be on shakey ground, don't be surprised for an unfair dismissal claim to be lodged.
Obeanie1
19 Oct 2007, 17:03
they did have grounds...for **** sake the only reason that assessment is asked for is in relation to fitness to operate the vehicle. The police obviously suspected that he shouldn't have been driving and asked for it...it has NOTHING to do with the possession charge.
Its been reported by witnesses on a building site Cousins when pulled over was in the back seat with a young brunette driving. Cousins remained in the back seat as he was questioned. Wow, funny how this little fact has been overlooked. So do the police have the right to drug test a passenger:confused:
The female was driving erratically:D no sinister mystery there:p
Belnakor
19 Oct 2007, 17:04
This just keeps getting better and better.
Isandula
19 Oct 2007, 17:08
Oh dear cant believe how messy this is getting, as time passes more and more is coming out and its not Cousins that is looking like the bad here.
spEKTre
19 Oct 2007, 17:09
Let he who is innocent and guilt free cast the first stone!!! I thought so /me see's a million bags of gravel fall to the ground.
Isandula
19 Oct 2007, 17:11
Let he who is innocent and guilt free cast the first stone!!! I thought so /me see's a million bags of gravel fall to the ground.
Its going to hurt been the one underneath it all!
Keyser Soze
19 Oct 2007, 17:17
Negative attention?
Yeh, that's what you call it, when a handful of detectives pull you over in broad daylight and search your car only to find NOTHING.
How could he have avoided such negative attention in this instance?
And because nothing he had done prior would lead the cops to search him in the street?
Look, I will agree that the arrest on Tuesday was a public humiliation and was totally unwarranted. Had it been Joe Blow the news story would have been about the abuse of police powers and how someone's civil liberties were violated.
However, my point is that the way Ben conducts himself brings a lot of scrutiny to both himself and by extension the club. Whether the rumours of recent poor behaviour are true I don't know (I've heard differing stories), but the club's decision lead me to believe that there has been some truth to those rumours.
Our credibility has been damaged by this whole drugs debacle and I don't believe we can restore it while Cousins remains at the club.
Carn the Coasters
19 Oct 2007, 17:18
Relax buddy, just going off what I read
"Quote:http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,22595382-601,00.html
According to workers at a nearby construction site, he was sitting in the back seat of the car with his shirt off when the car was pulled over. A young unidentified brunette was driving the vehicle at the time of the incident.
Cousins sat in the back of the vehicle for at least an hour, the workers said, before he left with police. He was led away in handcuffs. According to workers at a nearby construction site, he was sitting in the back seat of the car with his shirt off when the car was pulled over. A young unidentified brunette was driving the vehicle at the time of the incident. "
As there are mixed reports, it does seem as though he was driving the car, but their case is flawed and mark my words again, these charges will be dropped, might take time but watch this space. I dont think the eagles board realise yet what they have just lost.....
Whoever mentions that the sacking was done not just because of this indiscretion is talking diarrhea, they sacked him after the arrest without even speaking to him to get his story of the event, the eagles board admitted that. He only found out he was sacked via his father, now are you sure the board aren't questioning their pre-emptive decision to get rid of him, I would be. Another example of corporate heads making footballing decisions.
Actually, they tried to contact him but Ben wasn't returning their calls. It was not the Eagles avoiding Ben.
chicpea
19 Oct 2007, 17:23
PRESCRIPTION drugs including diazepam, oxycontin and Viagra were found in the car that fallen AFL star Ben Cousins was driving when he was arrested, West Australian police say.
WA Assistant Commissioner for Special Crimes, Wayne Gregson, said police had today dropped the one drug possession charge against the sacked West Coast Eagles midfielder on advice from the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP).
Mr Gregson said a diazepam, or Valium, pill was found on Cousins, but the DPP said that it was only a prohibited drug in a liquid, injectable form.
However he said several other drugs were also found in the car, in which there were also two passengers.
"The following drugs were seized from the vehicle: oxycontin, which is a prohibited drug, diazepam, Viagra ... and a $20 note which preliminary indications and analysis show traces of MDMA, which is ecstasy and cocaine,'' he said in Perth.
Cousins, 29, was sacked by the West Coast Eagles on Wednesday, a day after being charged with possessing a prohibited drug.
He was also charged with refusing to take a driver assessment test after being pulled over for driving erratically.
Cousins appeared briefly in the Perth Magistrates Court yesterday, when the case was adjourned for three months so that he could return to drug rehabilitation in the US.
http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,22613382-2,00.html
hmmm
Keyser Soze
19 Oct 2007, 17:26
Tell ****n Patrick Smith to shove that up his arse!! Whats the next article gonna say???
West Coast acted too hastily and jumped to conclusions.
Hence they should not be allowed to draft any new kids because they have a habit of sacking players without good reason.
Hahaha. :thumbsu:
LOL, I read the above and was thinking you can't be serious! And then I read what you quoted and realised that is what Patrick Smith would say. :D
Whilst it's great news for Cousins that the drug charges have been dropped, it still a case of too late.
He once again was reluctant to help police with their enquiries as shown by his refusal to submit to a blood test. This alone is enough for the club to sack him as he has on numerous times defied police instruction.
The guy has been on drugs for years, everyone knows it. Only now is the club making the tough decision it has avoided for so long.
Johnny. Don't Worry. I wasn't being serious.:)
Hope these quotes clear it up for you.:thumbsu:
West Coast 06
19 Oct 2007, 17:37
Oxycontin is a shecdule eight drug, so there must be a charge involved there,surely?
Or is he using the time honoured "its not mine" excuse?
JayBee52
19 Oct 2007, 18:11
[QUOTE=West Coast 06;9264473]Oxycontin is a shecdule eight drug, so there must be a charge involved there,surely?QUOTE]
Oxycontin is a Schedule 8 CONTROLLED drug, available on the PBS system. There are lots of reasons why anyone could have a script for it, so I wouldn't jump to any conclusion about it's possession resulting in a charge.
Archie Jnr
19 Oct 2007, 18:50
Can anyone confirm if Cousins was the actual driver of the car , if not there is absolutely no legal reason for police to demand a drug assessment test from a passenger.
Shamefull WA Police , another example of the erosion of our rights.:thumbsd:
The wallopers look like a mob of clown-shoes at the moment it must be said...
JayBee52
19 Oct 2007, 18:55
There are eye witnesses from a building site who insist that when the car was pulled over, Ben was in the back seat.
Archie Jnr
19 Oct 2007, 18:57
I must be carefull tonight in case i get arrested for DUI when sitting in the PASSENGER seat of the taxi.
What a farce.:confused:
neverwas57
19 Oct 2007, 19:37
no..he still refused to give the drug assessment which is just as damaging.
Isaid from the start there was more to this noone gets pulled over for erratic driving and doesnt get charged noone.
I still believe he has been a little victimised by the police for failing to be cooperative with them when he was questioned regarding his criminal connections!
You go Ben give everyone hell especially those Supporters from your club who doubted you!
Yes he failed to allow a blood test to be done but maybe because of the victimisation he had good reason to!
Apologies to Ben from you all i think!:D:cool:
Smiley43
19 Oct 2007, 20:08
Can anyone confirm if Cousins was the actual driver of the car , if not there is absolutely no legal reason for police to demand a drug assessment test from a passenger.
Shamefull WA Police , another example of the erosion of our rights.:thumbsd:
Dead on the money here. IF he wasn't driving they had no right. They've just seen who it was and thought here's a chance to get ourselves in the paper. Ben had every right to refuse the test if he was a passenger.
Wish him all the best as I use to love watching him play footy. Bloke was a freak of a player.
Superlative Missile Bearing
Ha ha...Suck My Balls :)
Keyser Soze
19 Oct 2007, 20:12
Superlative Missile Bearing
From the Big Man? Look out:eek:
This?
http://i236.photobucket.com/albums/ff278/Keyser_Soze_BF/21oct9-they-love-their-pics.jpg
Chinese Tickler? Early edition Rough Rider? :D
Adrian Shelton
19 Oct 2007, 20:30
I hope the Eagles and AFL offices are getting buried under Emails/phone calls/faxes etc... I think Cuz will play again someday. Vlad wouldnt want to go to Subi for any reason next yr i can tell you that!!
chicpea
19 Oct 2007, 20:32
From the Big Man? Look out:eek:
This?
http://i236.photobucket.com/albums/ff278/Keyser_Soze_BF/21oct9-they-love-their-pics.jpg
that girl's impressed.
Mr Eagle
19 Oct 2007, 20:46
Warning given, posts deleted. But I like art so the statue stays ;) (even though I expect this not to deviate into an art class thread...)
Keyser Soze
19 Oct 2007, 20:51
http://www.gbtamc.co.uk/et/assets/images/last_supper.jpg
Thoughts anybody?
Mr Eagle
19 Oct 2007, 20:58
http://www.gbtamc.co.uk/et/assets/images/last_supper.jpg
Thoughts anybody?
I look at the picture, and I see... yes, it's a smartarse trying to get himself banned for a day or two ;)
Keyser Soze
19 Oct 2007, 21:02
I look at the picture, and I see... yes, it's a smartarse trying to get himself banned for a day or two ;)
http://www.pets.info.vic.gov.au/quiz/scared.jpg
I'll go now.:o
eaglerock
19 Oct 2007, 21:56
Ben sacking was the right decision.How many chances and warnings did he need for it to sink in Just could not learn from him mistakes.
I look at the picture, and I see... yes, it's a smartarse trying to get himself banned for a day or two ;)
Ha Ha
The media makes the biggest deal ever about this and then comes up with ,he was caught with diazapam , well hello a million odd other Aussies have diazapam. Im not naive i know hes got problems but cut the crap.