Ben Cousins’ place among the many greats of the sport has been emphatically rejected.
The previous West Coast Eagles skipper is eligible to be inducted into the AFL Corridor of Fame, that honour nevertheless received’t be going forward any time quickly.
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A report from The Age’s Jake Niall famous the 2005 Brownlow Medal winner is not going to be part of the 2024 class.
Moreover his identify isn’t more likely to come into consideration anytime quickly with Niall reporting “the committee has not critically debated Cousins as a potential member”. It was famous Cousins’ previous was an element.
His induction into the Corridor of Fame has lengthy been in query because of spending seven months in jail in 2020 after repeatedly breaching a restraining order and allegedly threatening to kill his former accomplice and mom of his youngsters, Maylea Tinecheff.
The transfer comes lower than every week after Wayne Carey was blocked by the AFL from being elevated to legend standing on the NSW Soccer Corridor of Fame ceremony.
Carey’s deliberate induction sparked widespread outrage and was set to happen on the identical weekend the AFL honoured victims of gender-based violence.
The previous star midfielder has change into a media character in latest instances and opened up about his private life following years of wrestle with drug abuse.
In an look on Channel 7’s The Entrance Bar, Cousins mirrored on his youth following his father Bryan’s profession earlier than finally turning into one of many sport’s largest names.
Nonetheless, his spectacular profession has been adopted by shadow of a variety of off-field incidents that turned his life the other way up.
The Brownlow Medallist and premiership participant was sacked by the Eagles in 2007 after he was arrested for drug possession and handed a 12-month suspension by the AFL.
He hung out in jail after being discovered responsible of stalking Tinecheff, his ex-partner and the mom of the pair’s two youngsters, in 2020.
Earlier, in 2018, Cousins additionally served 10 months of a 12-month jail sentence for stalking Tinecheff.
The 45-year-old now says he’s on the fitting path. He’s now studying the information for Seven in Western Australia, and is ready to look within the newest version of Dancing With The Stars.
The Entrance Bar panel made it clear his look on the present wouldn’t be all about his previous struggles, however Cousins appeared more than pleased to share a snippet of his life after working onerous to rebuild himself.
“I want it hadn’t needed to have taken this lengthy, and needed to run its course the way in which it did,” he stated.
“However yeah, it’s good to be working and busy, have some actual ambition again, and, you realize, simply related again in with buddies, household, and even on a group stage, you realize. Life’s by no means been higher, to be trustworthy.”
