The tragic death of former AFL star Adam Hunter has continued the off-field curse that has rocked the likes of several fellow West Coast Eagles premiership players including Ben Cousins and Daniel Kerr. Hunter, 43, was found unresponsive in a home at Bunbury, south of Perth, on Wednesday and could not be revived. Police have since confirmed methamphetamine and drug paraphernalia was discovered at the residence, according to the West Australian.

Cousins' battles with substance abuse are well known - it took until 2020, following six stints in jail across 13 years and a period of homelessness, for the decorated midfielder to address his demons and get clean. He is now finally on the right path, reading the news for Seven in Western Australia, and he also appeared on Dancing With The Stars. Kerr's fall from grace is equally sad. The tragic death of former AFL star Adam Hunter has continued the off-field curse that rocked the likes of fellow West Coast Eagles premiership players Ben Cousins and Daniel Kerr.

Ben Cousins won a premiership in 2006 (pictured) - but then was jailed six times in 13 years as he battled an ongoing drug addiction. Daniel Kerr reportedly now suffers from paranoid schizophrenia after years of mental health and drug issues (pictured, after he was given a suspended jail sentence for threatening to set two people alight in 2015). The older brother of Matildas superstar has also struggled with addiction, and was jailed for two years after setting fire to his parents' home in 2021.

Kerr was diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia in November 2022 after years of mental health and drug issues. He was given a suspended prison sentence in June last year over a shocking string of domestic violence offences. In January 2014, Kerr burned his ex-partner's clothes and cut her bed in half with a chainsaw. On another occasion, Kerr punched his her in the face while holding his keys in his hand, leaving a large gash on her face. The court was told he then licked the blood off the keys.

In another incident, five months after the couple had a child, Kerr strangled his partner while she was holding their infant baby. He also got a suspended sentence for dousing two people in petrol and threatening to set them on fire in 2015. Chad Fletcher - who starred for the Eagles from 1999 to 2009 - almost died in 2006 after reportedly choking on his own vomit during an end-of-season footy trip to Las Vegas and had to be revived after he stopped breathing.

Fletcher denied any drugs were involved in the episode, which saw him collapse outside the MGM Grand casino after visiting a nightclub. He avoided a conviction after police caught him with cocaine in a nightclub in Sydney's notorious Kings Cross in 2010. Club legend Chris Mainwaring - a two-time Eagles premiership winner in 1992 and 1994 who remained closely tied to the team after his retirement in 1999 - passed away following a cocaine-related seizure in 2007.

Hunter (pictured, centre with West Coast teammates in 2003) went down in Eagles folklore for kicking the winning goal in the 2006 AFL grand final. The tragic death of 2006 premiership hero Adam Hunter (pictured centre in 2016) came just a day after the passing of Geelong champion Joel Selwood's footy star brother Troy. He was visited by Cousins on the day of his death, with the troubled star later admitting the tragedy helped scare him straight.

A decade later, one-time Eagles rookie Ben Sharp was jailed for nine years for his role in an armed robbery in Sunbury, north-west of Melbourne. Sharp later claimed senior players at West Coast pressured him to take cocaine from 2004 onwards as a way of 'fitting in' to the playing group. He later struggled to cope with an ice addiction, which resulted in his stint behind bars. Daniel Chick - who provided the assist for Hunter's crucial fourth quarter goal in the 2006 grand final during his 103 games for West Coast - has also had plenty of brushes with the law.

They include being fined $500 when police found meth after discovering him sleeping in his car last December, and being fined $900 for possessing meth and drug paraphernalia in 2019. Chick was also fined $7000 for importing steroids from Thailand in 2010. In 2016, Chick opened up about the drug culture in the team during the flag-winning 2006 season in a bombshell interview. He claimed players were abusing drugs that were provided through the club - including Xanax, Stilnox, Sudafed and Valium - to get high.

Chick claimed he, Kerr and Cousins took huge doses of the asthma drug prednisone, which can have serious side effects. Ben Cousins is pictured with ex-Eagles coach John Worsfold after the team won the 2006 grand final. Two years later an AFL report detailed shocking drug-taking at the club. 'At those levels it's the same as being a full-on meth addict,' Chick said. There was years of allegations that West Coast officials repeatedly covered up the wild behaviour of their footy stars.