we need to keep on getting youth into our club,not a 31 year old ex cocaine addict who might not be fully over his problem and will be past his best.
and it`s hardly being a wowser to have a view like this.
it`s just being rational and taking into account where we are at as a football club.
we aren`t going to be a premiership contender at least for another couple of years so it doesn`t make sense to bring in someone as old as cousins and with his drug issues,not morally, but in regard to what limits it may put on the length of his career.
he will be roughly 31,and plus he has abused his body,it may not look that way from the outside but it would have to have taken some sort of toll internally.
most blokes who really look after themselves can`t get much further past 33 or 34,look at buckley and hird,2 of the most clean living blokes you will see in the game.
let alone cousins who has abused his body from the inside with cocaine and stuff.
plus he was getting a recurring hamstring injury at the end of last year with the eagles.
put all that together and he`s not worth the risk imo.
let`s keep on getting kids into our club,i`d rather we take a punt on a 18 year old key defender than a 31 year old with drug issues,regardless of how good he has been in the past.
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