Cousins starts well but Magpies win
Sam Lienert
The Age
February 26, 2009A successful AFL comeback by Ben Cousins could not prevent Collingwood streaming to a 46-point win over Richmond in the NAB Cup match at Telstra Dome on Thursday night. The Magpies outscored Richmond by 37 points in a dominant final term to win 1.13.10 (97) to 2.3.15 (51) in front of a big crowd of 37,121 to move into a pre-season semi-final…
A fairly poor first half by the Magpies and a ridiculous number of free kicks to Richmond (22 vs. 6) failed to prevent Collingwood from rolling over Richmond in the second: Cousins had little real effect on the game.
So Ben Cousins is not the Messiah…more like a naughty boy…so what!
Collingwood remain philistine, petit-bourgeois and lumpen elements that are objectively opposed to revolution. It therefore follows that only a reactionary, an enemy of the working class, a henchman of the Imperialist Tsarist plutocracy and probably a member of the Black 100’s could ever support Collingwood.
Good old Collingwood?
Oh boy.