Cousins to make long overdue return to Melbourne Brownlows

For the primary time in additional than a decade, Ben Cousins will attend a Brownlow Medal ceremony in Melbourne — in a significant step ahead for the previous Eagle.

Speaking to The Australian on Monday, the 2005 Brownlow Medallist, shall be within the room when this 12 months’s biggest AFL participant is recognised. But for Cousins and his rocky previous, it marks an enormous step in his return.

A return marked by his new function as a member of the 7NEWS Perth staff — Cousins reads sports activities through the morning news bulletin, with colleagues describing him as “keen to learn”.

And all his new teammates agree the rationale he gained’t reoffend is his kids, who he sees recurrently.

“I’m somebody that hasn’t been given a second chance,” he stated.

“I’ve been given a third, fourth and fifth for whatever reason. But that’s what it’s taken.

“I want to make sure that other people in that sort of position are going to get the same understanding I do and the same help along the way I did.”

While Cousins attended the 2021 Brownlow, hosted in Perth, this 12 months marks the primary time in additional than a decade he’s returned to the sporting capital of Australia for the ceremony.