I believe Cotchins brutal tackle on Ablett caused his shoulder injury. If you look closely at the slow motion replay Ablett is grimacing in pain before he hits the ground. Cotch is a battering ram even when he tackles and the force of the collision popped his shoulder out, not the impact when he hit the ground. Another powerful and influential game from our leader where he has fairly taken out a player in a big game.
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Cotchin Tackle On Ablett
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Bad luck for those guys. Tough to play it out.
That said hopefully we’ve broken Geelong too.
That said hopefully we’ve broken Geelong too.
Will be interesting to see how Geelong respond next year, ToO.
should go OK, by all accounts they are picking up the doyen of Grand Final's , Jeremy Cameron
Probably the same way they do every year. Win the inconsequential games. Fold in the ones that matter
Just as adding Tom Hawkins to the prelim side we beat easily made the difference this year, adding JC to the GF side we beat easily will make the difference next year.
As dangerpoo said about his elbow to Vloss head after the game, it's a contact sport.
Cotchin's left shoulder impacts Ablett's pretty hard. You could be right on that ToP
Anything with a stripe regardless if its Horizontal or Vertical we slap.
The tackle didn't look particularly brutal, just hard but fair. The consequences couldn't have been foreseen for Ablett but as we all know the older we get the often innocuous knocks cause more damage.
Normally I would agree, but you can see the grimace as he goes down, not just after he has hit the turf.
It sure looks like something went before he hit the ground.
DS
It was a good tackle and I’m sure Ablett felt it, but Ablett would have sustained the injury when he hit the ground. He has his arm out and rotated in slightly, and hits the ground on his elbow and The force of his weight and Cotchins weight is applied up his arm and you can see his shoulder dislocate posteriorly. The way he falls into his elbow and the force applied would be consistent with causing a posterior shoulder dislocation and these can often be associated with fractures which we have been told he has, although what exactly he fractured we don’t know. My interpretation of it is that he sustains the injury when he hits the ground.
I want them to be irrelevant in the same way Adelaide and GWS sank into oblivion the year following their GF disasters.
I'm with @Tigeronprowl Watching the replay he was grimacing after the tackle but before he hit the ground. Cotchin tackles hard by definition.
