Player Watch #9: Trent Cotchin is an obscenely good 3 x Premiership Captain, Victorian Captain & Brownlow Medalist

[tiger_tough]

Played well. His footskills are poor but very good game.

 

[This Is Anfield]

Far from finished… not captain but still a leader

 

[sante]

Reality check in 5, 4, 3....

For you yes.

 

[Rich01]

Three more years pls brooke

Nah. Those who have appreciated his work for the club for the last dozen years will be celebrating his last year.

Those that are willing him to fail probably never really remember how good he was for us.

 

[tiger_tough]

3 goal assists too.

 

[Ceehook]

I wasn't able to watch live so watched a replay and had already seen some of the criticisms
I wouldn't have said he stunk it up , but was down on what we'd like from him , he didn't look to have heavy legs like last year
I saw two cotchin centre bounce possessions where the disposal was smoothed, and of course they turned into clearances for the blues, they might have been enough to stop that momentum swing the Blues got in the last

He has tended to let his footy do the talking , especially in 3rd qtrs , lets see how he fares this week before we book him into an Aged Care facility LOL

he did ok this week

 

[Tigerish09]

I thought he let his actions speak in yesterday's game. His hardness at the ball, his second efforts and his positive uplifting feedback to the younger players were exemplary. This is why he provides so much value to this team, it's not just his physical output that he should be measured on. Having him out on the ground is educational to this next breed of mid-fielders and hopefully accelerates their development.
Been pivotal to the development and support for one D. Martin as well. As we are aware Dustin Martin requires that support around him to function at his best, Cotchin has been there for him from day 1 and will need to be there in the future for Martin to resume and be at his best.

 

[Hamsatma]

I think it's pretty clear that Cotchin will be a massive part of any success that we have this year. My biggest concern is that given his injury history and his extremely physical style of play he might be shot by the end of the year. It's not common in afl but I think we need to think very seriously about giving him regular rests throughout the season (e.g. plays 2/3 or 3/4 weeks). If we're not good enough to make finals without him we're probably not going to win anything anyway, and I'm confident that if we can get into big finals he'll be inspirational for us. Obviously much harder if have injuries to prestia, lambert, edwards etc.

 

[Hounddd]

Whatever happens this year, there better be a 20ft statue outside Punt Rd oval of this absolute champion.

 

[Infamy]

Hoping he keeps up this form so he can go around again next year and hit 300 games

 

[Marcel Proust]

I think it's pretty clear that Cotchin will be a massive part of any success that we have this year. My biggest concern is that given his injury history and his extremely physical style of play he might be shot by the end of the year. It's not common in afl but I think we need to think very seriously about giving him regular rests throughout the season (e.g. plays 2/3 or 3/4 weeks). If we're not good enough to make finals without him we're probably not going to win anything anyway, and I'm confident that if we can get into big finals he'll be inspirational for us. Obviously much harder if have injuries to prestia, lambert, edwards etc.

Rotating the squad soccer / basketball style isn't the worst idea

 

[59Stanley]

Cotch fan but sheesh today he was sooo ordinary. His disposal and decision making was horrid.

 

[Vassp]

time time to say night night...not helping the team when players are underdone or cooked. cotchiin was a battering ram for years...how is his body holiding up ?

 

[tiger_tough]

I thought he was pretty good again today. Some people need to lower their expectations of the great man. He simply can't play the way he used to but he's still doing the heavy lifting when he shouldn't be. We'd be far worse off without him playing atm.

 

[Vassp]

I thought he was pretty good again today. Some people need to lower their expectations of the great man. He simply can't play the way he used to but he's still doing the heavy lifting when he shouldn't be. We'd be far worse off without him playing atm.

its counter productive though

 

[tiger_tough]

its counter productive though

Not really. It's r3 and we were in the 8 before the match. It's not like we have kids banging the door down in the twos.

 

[Rioli2Rioli]

Looked extremely ineffective today and thats not just in the last quarter

His kicks , taps and handballs were all terrible and his timing looked lost.

Clearly this will be his and a few others last year

Im predicting he is 1 serious Hamstring injury away from retiring

 

["The Roar Is Back"]

Looked extremely ineffective today and thats not just in the last quarter

His kicks , taps and handballs were all terrible and his timing looked lost.

Clearly this will be his and a few others last year

Im predicting he is 1 serious Hamstring injury away from retiring

Open training ?

 

[CholEstrol]

Think Chimp is missing Dusty tbh.
It's like Batman and Robin, Starsky and Hutch, Cagney and Lacey. The list goes on.

 

[rfctigerarmy]

Think Chimp is missing Dusty tbh.
It's like Batman and Robin, Starsky and Hutch, Cagney and Lacey. The list goes on.

Chol and Casboult

 

["The Roar Is Back"]

Arguably in our best 5 players , 2 of the first 4 rounds . Pickett probably the only one who has been more consistent .

 

[Marcel Proust]

Arguably in our best 5 players , 2 of the first 4 rounds . Pickett probably the only one who has been more consistent .

Very little game time too.

Cotchin 70 odd %

Vs bailey smith who almost played 100% game time

 

[dusty1234!]

anyone got a gif of that play on the members wing where he just destroyed Smith
and set up a goal?

 

[Muddiemoose]

anyone got a gif of that play on the members wing where he just destroyed Smith
and set up a goal?

Cotchin harasses Bailey Smith, taps to a running Balta pickup one handed and streak away, kick I50 to Lynch who protects space nicely and gets the crumbing goal

 

[Marcel Proust]

anyone got a gif of that play on the members wing where he just destroyed Smith
and set up a goal?

It's on the gif thread.

Cotchin vs GAJ vibes