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Trent Cotchin (Merged)
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Tigers of Old said:
100% bang on as usual
There are crummers in front of him. Can bang it on the boot now.
Thanks Lamb for those highlights.
People ( outside the club & other supporters) forgot how bloody good he & his game was.
He is practically the same player but bigger through the upper body, has that zip back , he hunts the footy and hunts the man.
He may not be accumulating the stats he was back in his Brownlow year but he doesn't have to now. He has more help and the things he does are not measured by kicks & hand balls.
I had some doubts he could come back.
I had doubts if he still had that hunger and drive to be a great leader of men.
He is. He leads by example.
Being compared to Voss by Leigh Matthews is as good as it gets.
People ( outside the club & other supporters) forgot how bloody good he & his game was.
He is practically the same player but bigger through the upper body, has that zip back , he hunts the footy and hunts the man.
He may not be accumulating the stats he was back in his Brownlow year but he doesn't have to now. He has more help and the things he does are not measured by kicks & hand balls.
I had some doubts he could come back.
I had doubts if he still had that hunger and drive to be a great leader of men.
He is. He leads by example.
Being compared to Voss by Leigh Matthews is as good as it gets.
Better here than hidden on journos board.
Phenom, Disappointment, Inspiration: The Many Lives of Trent Cotchin
by Jay Croucher September 28, 2017
Trent Cotchin has already lived more football lives than seems healthy or reasonable. Initially, he was the saviour, a young phenom tasked with piecing a broken club back together. Early Cotchin was majestic, an athletic force of pace, agility and supreme balance. He did things in tight spaces that only Gary Ablett Jr could replicate.
But then his body started to abandon him at just 23, degenerate knees sapping his otherworldly quickness, transforming him into a depressingly earthbound player. An age of disappointment followed. The statistical output remained solid, but the magic was dead. He was just a midfielder now, devoid of anything enchanted.
The jokes started. He became an easy target, a captain of a massive club who wasn’t a superstar. Nick Maxwell in the middle of the ground, with more pedigree but no premiership. He opted to kick into the wind against Port Adelaide and had nine touches against North Melbourne. His hair is an odd rhombus and he looks like something between a pen salesman and a well-dressed waiter, a loose white shirt, tired smile and broom away from being the kid in American Beauty, after the party.
His football career looked like leaking away at the end of 2016. Richmond missed the finals in inglorious fashion and Cotchin’s impact and influence on matches were decaying, despite accumulating as much of the ball as ever.
2017, though, has been an unlikely rebirth, for a team and its captain. The 2016 Tigers were a group oddly absent an identity – a few excellent players playing alongside a large number of not excellent players. There was no cohesion, no vitality. This year, though, the team is defined by being the most cohesive in the game – the most alive as well.
Cotchin has been the architect of that life. And he orchestrates it by ending the lives of his opponents. From exquisite phenom to weary disappointment, we have now entered the new phase of Trent Cotchin as Maniac and Bad Man.
Embed from Getty Images
Cotchin has played the year with infectious fury. He is relentless and devastating, a more presentable Glenn Archer thrown into the midfield. He scampers around the ground with magnetic violence, chasing with intent, punishing without compassion. His raw accumulation of the ball hasn’t been this low since he was a teenager, but his influence has perhaps never been greater. His tackles are at a career-high, and so, marvellously, are his free kicks against. A player who was prone to anonymity is now one of the most emphatically present in the game. He’s become Richmond’s tone-setter, a player who, despite the presence of arguably two of the five best players in the game elsewhere on the list, is more integral to the identity of the Tigers than anyone else.
The pen salesman is dead. A force is in its place. Cotchin’s menace, his pressure and tenacity, set Geelong and GWS alight. His speed will never be the same but he’s playing at greater pace than ever before, a rollicking fireball that builds momentum until it finds someone or something to charge through, be it an opponent or an open goal, as was the case with that extra-terrestrial gather and finish in the final quarter against the Cats.
Dustin Martin is Richmond’s best player and Alex Rance is arguably their most valuable. But Cotchin is their most inspirational, and a recipe for triumphing against the Crows begins with him, at the first centre bounce, blood in his eyes, verve in his step once again.
https://onballers.com/2017/09/28/phenom-disappointment-inspiration-the-many-lives-of-trent-cotchin/
Phenom, Disappointment, Inspiration: The Many Lives of Trent Cotchin
by Jay Croucher September 28, 2017
Trent Cotchin has already lived more football lives than seems healthy or reasonable. Initially, he was the saviour, a young phenom tasked with piecing a broken club back together. Early Cotchin was majestic, an athletic force of pace, agility and supreme balance. He did things in tight spaces that only Gary Ablett Jr could replicate.
But then his body started to abandon him at just 23, degenerate knees sapping his otherworldly quickness, transforming him into a depressingly earthbound player. An age of disappointment followed. The statistical output remained solid, but the magic was dead. He was just a midfielder now, devoid of anything enchanted.
The jokes started. He became an easy target, a captain of a massive club who wasn’t a superstar. Nick Maxwell in the middle of the ground, with more pedigree but no premiership. He opted to kick into the wind against Port Adelaide and had nine touches against North Melbourne. His hair is an odd rhombus and he looks like something between a pen salesman and a well-dressed waiter, a loose white shirt, tired smile and broom away from being the kid in American Beauty, after the party.
His football career looked like leaking away at the end of 2016. Richmond missed the finals in inglorious fashion and Cotchin’s impact and influence on matches were decaying, despite accumulating as much of the ball as ever.
2017, though, has been an unlikely rebirth, for a team and its captain. The 2016 Tigers were a group oddly absent an identity – a few excellent players playing alongside a large number of not excellent players. There was no cohesion, no vitality. This year, though, the team is defined by being the most cohesive in the game – the most alive as well.
Cotchin has been the architect of that life. And he orchestrates it by ending the lives of his opponents. From exquisite phenom to weary disappointment, we have now entered the new phase of Trent Cotchin as Maniac and Bad Man.
Embed from Getty Images
Cotchin has played the year with infectious fury. He is relentless and devastating, a more presentable Glenn Archer thrown into the midfield. He scampers around the ground with magnetic violence, chasing with intent, punishing without compassion. His raw accumulation of the ball hasn’t been this low since he was a teenager, but his influence has perhaps never been greater. His tackles are at a career-high, and so, marvellously, are his free kicks against. A player who was prone to anonymity is now one of the most emphatically present in the game. He’s become Richmond’s tone-setter, a player who, despite the presence of arguably two of the five best players in the game elsewhere on the list, is more integral to the identity of the Tigers than anyone else.
The pen salesman is dead. A force is in its place. Cotchin’s menace, his pressure and tenacity, set Geelong and GWS alight. His speed will never be the same but he’s playing at greater pace than ever before, a rollicking fireball that builds momentum until it finds someone or something to charge through, be it an opponent or an open goal, as was the case with that extra-terrestrial gather and finish in the final quarter against the Cats.
Dustin Martin is Richmond’s best player and Alex Rance is arguably their most valuable. But Cotchin is their most inspirational, and a recipe for triumphing against the Crows begins with him, at the first centre bounce, blood in his eyes, verve in his step once again.
https://onballers.com/2017/09/28/phenom-disappointment-inspiration-the-many-lives-of-trent-cotchin/
That article is hilarious, I particularly like the line "His hair is an odd rhombus and he looks like something between a pen salesman and a well-dressed waiter, a loose white shirt, tired smile and broom away from being the kid in American Beauty, after the party."
Leysy Days said:
He's always been the hardest at the footy player at Richmond since his career began. Fearless. That's why he's the best wet weather player in the country (and his amazing ball handling of course).
Cotch we will have a licence to run through the crows players, legally of course. He will play a true captains game.
There's a snippet in Caro's article that sums up Cotch's year perfectly. It's on the 69 flag n mentions the understated but brutal leadership of then Captain Roger Dean.
Different era of course but I reckon there's similarities about the uncompromising way Cotch is playing his footy this year.
Different era of course but I reckon there's similarities about the uncompromising way Cotch is playing his footy this year.
That physical intensity was there a few years ago, but imo it had dropped off in the last few seasons, until this season. He's my tip for the Norm Smith simply because i don't think he will allow us to lose.
I feel the drop off in that beastly hunger goes hand in hand with our game style getting crappier and crappier until nobody at the club enjoyed it.
Having been let off the leash this year, we have the original Trent Cotchin back to his intense frenetic best. Don't get me wrong, he laid tackle last year and the year before, but he's back to laying ferocious tackles, tackles where you thought he had no hope of even closing the gap. He's locking on to guys 10 yards in front of him and coming in like a heat guided missile with the same deadly impact.
Everyone talks of Joel Selwood's toughness because he goes in hard and comes out the other side with a sore head.
Cotchin's different. He goes in hard and leaves everyone else with a sore head. I know what i prefer.
I feel the drop off in that beastly hunger goes hand in hand with our game style getting crappier and crappier until nobody at the club enjoyed it.
Having been let off the leash this year, we have the original Trent Cotchin back to his intense frenetic best. Don't get me wrong, he laid tackle last year and the year before, but he's back to laying ferocious tackles, tackles where you thought he had no hope of even closing the gap. He's locking on to guys 10 yards in front of him and coming in like a heat guided missile with the same deadly impact.
Everyone talks of Joel Selwood's toughness because he goes in hard and comes out the other side with a sore head.
Cotchin's different. He goes in hard and leaves everyone else with a sore head. I know what i prefer.
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