Richard Cousins (footballer)

Richard Cousins
Personal information
Full name	Richard Cousins
Date of birth	(1962-07-13) 13 July 1962
Original team(s)	Central District
Draft	No. 6, 1986 National Draft
Height / weight	196 cm / 100 kg
Playing career¹
Years	Club	Games (Goals)
1987–1991	Footscray	60 (21)
¹ Playing statistics correct to the end of 1991.

Richard Cousins (born 13 July 1962) is a former Australian rules footballer who played with Footscray in the Victorian/Australian Football League (VFL/AFL).^[1]

Cousins started his career at Central District and won their best and fairest award in 1986.^[2] At the end of the year, in the 1986 National Draft, Cousins was selected at pick six by VFL club Footscray and made the move to Victoria.^[3] He made 20 appearances in 1987, his first season, mostly as a centre half-forward.^[4]^[5] In 1988, with Andrew Purser no longer at the club having returned to Western Australia, Cousins was Footscray's first ruckman and he had the best season of his career, with eight Brownlow Medal votes.^[4] He took 109 marks that year, second only at Footscray to Peter Foster.^[4] In 1989 he played another 17 games, then didn't feature at all in the 1990 season, which was followed by a three games season in 1991.^[4]

References

↑ Holmesby, Russell; Main, Jim (2007). The Encyclopedia Of AFL Footballers. BAS Publishing. ISBN 9781920910785.
↑ "Honors". Central District Football Club.
↑ Lovett, Michael (2004). AFL 2004 - The Official Statistical History Of The AFL. AFL Publishing. ISBN 0-9580300-5-7.
1 2 3 4 AFL Tables: Richard Cousins
↑ The Age,"Cousins gets out of his seat and on to the stage", 6 April 1988, p. 32

1986 VFL national draft

First round	1. Martin Leslie 2. Steven Sims 3. Steven Febey 4. Richard Anderson 5. Michael Taylor 6. Richard Cousins 7. Chris Lindsay 8. Grantley Fielke 9. Andrew Payze 10. John Brinkkotter 11. Jason Taylor 12. Dominic Fotia 13. Clayton Lamb

Second round	14. Scott Adams 15. Andrew Wickham 16. Matthew Febey 17. Trent Nichols 18. Mark O'Keefe 19. Matthew Mansfield 20. Brenton Harris 21. David Robertson 22. Kieran Sporn 23. Lyndon Dakin 24. Matthew Armstrong 25. Doug Smart 26. Darrin Pritchard

Third round	27. Adam Garton 28. Darren Mansell 29. Craig Walker 30. Matthew Sexton 31. Glen Keast 32. Wayne Mahney 33. Malcolm Shippen 34. Craig Kelly 35. Peter Reid 36. Donald Thompson 37. Chris Duthy 38. Simon Minton-Connell 39. Matthew Queen

Fourth round	40. Stephen Williams 41. Brett Jaffray 42. Anthony Lovell 43. Andrew Gray 44. Tim Britt 45. James Pyke 46. Gary Brooker 47. Brendan Hogan 48. Stephen Riley 49. Craig Elias 50. Alastair Lynch 51. Andrew Herring 52. Robin McKinnon

Fifth round	53. Michael Templeton 54. Paul Page 55. Darren Jarman 56. Greg Whittlesea 57. Michael Billman 58. Perry Meka 59. Wayne Morrissey 60. Wayne Tanner 61. Andrew Underwood 62. Laurie Menhenut 63. Peter Winter 64. Darren Newlan 65. Tony Symonds

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