AFL pays $180k for Cousin's rehab

[swantastic]

I guess if there were a few people at your workplace as with WCE taking drugs and your employer knows about and you get hooked that employer has to be at least partly responsible for allowing it to continue

I reckon that if you got hooked your just a dickhead and theres always the word no.People just don't take responsibility for there own actions today.

[sWAns63]

Totally agree the little druggie should pay his own way

[AussieAnge]

We have perfectly good drug and alcohol counsellors over here, why send him to the US (other than to remove him from the bad influences around him).
Perhaps the AFL are providing funding to the extent they would have paid for the same treatment here and he/WCE are paying the difference.
I believe they (AFL) paid for Keiran Jack's counselling for gambling.

[ROK Lobster]

I reckon that if you got hooked your just a dickhead and theres always the word no.People just don't take responsibility for there own actions today.

Or there spelling or there punctuation.i blame micorsoft.

[Lucky Knickers]

We have perfectly good drug and alcohol counsellors over here, why send him to the US (other than to remove him from the bad influences around him).

Or to provide a chase for the journalista's on Channel 9 to chase him overseas for another "exclusive".

[i'm-uninformed2]

There is a great counselling program I run . . .

[swantastic]

Or there spelling or there punctuation.i blame micorsoft.

Yeh your on the ball

[Bas]

I heard SEN reporting that the AFL have also paid for Hall's upcoming knee reconstruction!

Poor Ray. He'll be back here in Woy Woy to rehab.

[stellation]

Yeh your on the ball

whoooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooosh

[BLT]

We have perfectly good drug and alcohol counsellors over here, why send him to the US (other than to remove him from the bad influences around him).
Perhaps the AFL are providing funding to the extent they would have paid for the same treatment here and he/WCE are paying the difference.
I believe they (AFL) paid for Keiran Jack's counselling for gambling.

hmmmm I hope that is the case - I just find the whole thing ridiculous. The fact that he turned up in a stretch limo from his luxury beach-side resort also is out of control - what a load of crap and hype, it isn't a holiday nor should it be some publicity stunt....i guess the whole thing doesn't sit well with me and you're right I am sure there are facilities here that would have been fine. If going to the US was to remove him from the bad influences, surely there is somewhere closer ?

[Sanecow]

whoooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooosh

Your totaly wrong this time.

[AnnieH]

Majority of large professional employers provide counselling to staff. Don't see that the AFL is any different.
I don't have a problem with either the AFL, AFLPA or any club providing financial assistance to getting an employee right. Whether it's a knee reco or a lobotomy.
Who do you think does pay for all the surgeries? I'd speculate it's NOT the players funding the medicare gap.

i would imagine the insurance companies pay for player surgeries, etc. i had to take out a policy when i played touch years ago.

[stellation]

Your totaly wrong this time.

Their is no need to be like that.

[Wardy]

We have perfectly good drug and alcohol counsellors over here, why send him to the US (other than to remove him from the bad influences around him).
Perhaps the AFL are providing funding to the extent they would have paid for the same treatment here and he/WCE are paying the difference.
I believe they (AFL) paid for Keiran Jack's counselling for gambling.

And who paid for Bens Dad and entourage to go with him? Did the AFL spring for that too?
Even if its 50/50 between West Coast & the AFL, those costs will eventually go back to the members of WC & the AFL. So whilst I am glad that he is seeking councelling, albeit in the most extravagent way, I feel that as he earns well over $500,000 per year that he should pay for it himself. Are the AFL & WC admitting liability?, that they were the cause of Cousins problems, coz that is what is looks like.

Sure as eggs if it was junior player with the club they wouldn't get the same treatmeant. They would get a pamphlet of rehab providers in the local area and probably would be sacked by the club.

Keiran Jack probably got the 2 hour lecture on gambling - which would have cost about $300 so his rehab was cheap as chips. The Cousins scenario has gone from the sublime to the ridiculous.

Whilst in the beginning I was sympathetic to Cousins cause and you dont wish drug abuse on anyone and we all make mistakes, that sympathy is starting to diminish.

West Coast have alot to answer for, they chose to hide or ignore the problem for a long time and as we all know Cousins isnt the only one involved now.