Tiger Cotchin kept on ice but Foley on track
By Nat Edwards
1:40 PM Tue 19 January, 2010
IT WAS a tale of two Tigers at Richmond's skills session on Tuesday morning as injury-plagued youngster Trent Cotchin cooled his heels on the sidelines while Nathan Foley joined the main group in light running duties following ankle surgery.
Cotchin was kept away from the main group at the Punt Rd skills session as he continued his recovery from the hip injury that cut short his 2009.
His last two pre-seasons have been marred by injury, and this morning he only participated in handball drills and did not undertake any running duties.
The No.2 selection in the 2007 NAB AFL Draft was also kept in cotton wool in his first pre-season as he recovered from an inflamed achilles but recovered well enough to play 15 games in an impressive debut season.
His 2009 pre-season was also interrupted by achilles problems which kept him out of the senior side until round eight.
He managed 10 games before succumbing to a hip complaint that sidelined him for the last four matches of the season.
Cotchin was restricted to handball drills in a breakaway group that initially included Foley, Alex Rance and Will Thursfield.
Foley later joined the rest of the team for some light running duties and appeared to be moving freely despite still undergoing rehabilitation for an ankle injury he sustained late last season.
Ben Cousins was an early no show but made an appearance about an hour into the session but did not take part in any of the drills.
The only notable absentees were new draftee Dustin Martin and ruckman Tyrone Vickery.Exclusive to AFL BigPond Network
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