The champagne was flowing at AFL headquarters today after wayward West Coast Eagles midfielder Ben Cousins picked up a ‘hamstring strain’ that will rule him out as a last minute inclusion for the Eagles game against the Brisbane Lions this week. Several media outlets have criticised the AFL for allowing Cousins to play at all this season after his drug-taking indiscretions and there were reported sightings of Adrian Anderson at Subiaco Oval with a pair or pliers looking to finish off the Cousins hamstring for 2007.
It is not yet known whether the hamstring strain is of ‘AFL-grade’ which is a particular medical term referring to an injury that renders footballers unable to play at the highest level but fails to restrict their movements in lesser leagues such as the WAFL.
The Eagles today released a statement saying that Cousins was disappointed that he would not get the chance to play in the 200th game of one of his close mates, Michael Braun.
Braun himself was quoted as being “f**king annoyed that the smackheaded bicep couldn’t make the f**ing game” but seemed somewhat appeased by the fact that the Eagles one inclusion this week is a bloke called Chris Judd.
