brissie are not going to draft him now or in pre season
Lions crush Cousins' hopes of comeback
The Sunday Times
November 28, 2008 07:48pm
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+ -DISGRACED West Coast Eagles champion Ben Cousins' hopes of resurrecting his AFL career appear all but over.
The Brisbane Lions last night officially withdrew all interest in recruiting the 2005 Brownlow Medallist, PerhtNow report.
Brisbane officials met for more than an hour in their Melbourne hotel on Friday afternoon preparing for Saturday's AFL National Draft and emerged with their bombshell blow to Cousins.
Lions football operations manager Graeme Allan confirmed his club's decision, but would make not further comment.
"We're out of the race for Cousins," Allan said.
Allan and new Lions coach Michael Voss and their entire football recruitment department were involved in what was reported as an intense meeting and final decision not to pursue their endeavours to recruit the 30-year-old Cousins.
Only early this week the Lions ruled out taking Cousins as a draft pick, but left open the door for him to join Brisbane through next month's pre-season draft.
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