Cotchin's 'head' was his shoulder and he will not be suspended.
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The tragedy of Trent Cotchin - why escaping suspension is all but impossible for the Richmond skipper
That fact alone would trouble everyone at Tigerland - though we’ve seen the league bend over backwards to ensure the biggest stars are playing on the biggest day in football.
But this isn’t Cotchin’s first indiscretion this year. In fact, he’s already been fined twice, and a third slap on the wrist would trigger an automatic one-week suspension under the league’s ‘three strikes’ match review panel policy.
The wiggle room is virtually non-existent. The contact was high. His opponent was concussed.
Unless they can argue he had no other realistic way to contest the ball, and maybe that would have been the case had he kept his feet, his card is marked.
Interesting to see for second year in a row we have one side(tigers) with a very smaller mobile forwardline with one key target and the Crows
with 3/4 key targets in Tex, Jenkens, Lynch and Oten/McGovern(doubt on Hammy) and off course Eddy and Cameron as dangerous crumbers.
In 2016 WB had a very mobile forwardline with Tom Boyd as the only key target and he spent most of his time in the Ruck against the Swans with Buddy & Tippett as key targets