New to Kayo? Join now and get your first month for just $1.<\/a><\/p>\nBut Selwell and Hunter tragically passed away last year within three months of each other, with the latter posthumously diagnosed with chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE).<\/p>\n
Cousins and Judd came together for the 20-year reunion of their premiership triumph, and paid tribute to those who could not be there.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere will just be forever a hole in all our hearts that those two aren\u2019t going to be here for the celebrations, but more importantly, for everything else in life,\u201d Judd told Cousins on Channel 7.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey were both just brilliant players in the team, incredibly important cogs \u2014 but more than that, just wonderful people.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou speak about \u2018Hunts\u2019, his ability to go down back and then go forward and kick a goal in a tight game whenever you needed him to do it, and Adam Selwood played shutdown roles on some of the great half forwards in the competition week in and week out.<\/p>\n
\u201cI don\u2019t think that sadness will ever leave for any of the guys who played with them and any of the people that knew them.<\/p>\n
\u201cBut they will certainly be remembered by all of us in perpetuity, but specifically on occasions like this because they were very special people who won\u2019t be forgotten.\u201d<\/p>\n
Cousins added: \u201cUniversally loved within the group.\u201d<\/p>\n
The pair came together following a function organised by West Coast on the anniversary of their win over Sydney Swans.<\/p>\n
Cousins missed the previous get together after ten years as he was getting his life together following a tumultuous period after his career came to an end.<\/p>\n
They were joined at the reunion by former teammate Beau Waters, who told The West Australian it will be \u201cbittersweet\u201d to spend time with teammates, knowing Hunter and Selwood will not be with them.<\/p>\n
Selwood played 187 games for the Eagles between 2003 and 2013 and featured in both grand finals in 2005 and 2006, alongside Hunter who featured 151 times for the club.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"West Coast icons Ben Cousins and Chris Judd have opened up about the loss of their former teammates…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":649359,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[560],"tags":[638,64,63,55,639,85],"class_list":["post-649358","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-afl","tag-afl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-australian-football-league","tag-australianfootballleague","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/649358","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=649358"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/649358\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/649359"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=649358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=649358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=649358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}