Richmond's best midfielders are kick chasers: Kane Cornes (5AA)

[Penelope]

I suspect his Achilles problems have affected him, he doesn't seem to want to kick through the ball

[1980]

The Wayne Campbell legacy. Passed down from generation to generation.

[big tone]

Cotch is a very good kick of the footy if he haven't got two or more blokes hanging off him. I think if you know anything about footy you can see that.
That's not to say he doesn't make the wrong decision sometimes with ball in hand or he doesn't miss the goals sometimes but that is a different subject.
I really hope the addition of Prestia and Caddy and even Vlastuin into the midfield this year will free Cotch up to be the player he was a few years back because that Trent Cotchin was in the top 5 players in the AFL and awesome to watch.

Not making him captain would help to in my opinion. He is just not a natural leader and it seems to weigh to heavy on him.

[🏅Dooks]

Lol players keeping busy without the primary intent of trying to win or achieve anything tangible like taking the game on.

No wonder teams sit back and wait. They know.

Some real whining going on here.
Do you want Cotchin kicking at goal.Do want him trying to nail pin point passes ffs i dont. The reason is simple he is not a good kick .But we all know that, but hey its easier to join in the chorus rather than think for ourselves and ask why you want to see him hand it off when possible.

Cmon outside of kicking when does Cotchin not take the game on or at least try to.All players must work within their limitations weather its gazza cotchin or a  simple footsoldier.

Cotchin is a relatively accurate kick when kicking to another player. Shots at goal are a different story

[Tigeritis™©®]

Cotch is a very good kick of the footy if he haven't got two or more blokes hanging off him. I think if you know anything about footy you can see that.
That's not to say he doesn't make the wrong decision sometimes with ball in hand or he doesn't miss the goals sometimes but that is a different subject.
I really hope the addition of Prestia and Caddy and even Vlastuin into the midfield this year will free Cotch up to be the player he was a few years back because that Trent Cotchin was in the top 5 players in the AFL and awesome to watch.

Not making him captain would help to in my opinion. He is just not a natural leader and it seems to weigh to heavy on him.

IMO losing doesn't hurt enough. Can't take the criticism either and cries to his Mrs. Too much a mummy's boy.

He should be still smarting for letting a skinny kid pull his pants down in a final and there's no sugar coating it. For that performance alone he shouldn't be captain. 

As least he's a short dinky specialist 

[Jackstar 1960]

Kane Cornes
No idea
Ellis has never played midfield
Mainly on a wing and half back

[the claw]

Kane Cornes
No idea
Ellis has never played midfield
Mainly on a wing and half back

Since when has a wing not been a part of the mid field.Fmd H/B is is a running postion nowdays and in a lot of cases just as much  a mid field role and probably more important.
Theres mids onballers outside mids inside mids and and a combination of both mids.

[strongandbold]

This is hilarious coming from a guy who spent 300 games doing nothing but kick chasing.

[big tone]

This is hilarious coming from a guy who spent 300 games doing nothing but kick chasing.

Come on mate, if you want to bag the guy at least get your facts right. Cornes was hardly a kick chaser. In fact he was a very hard working AFL player that played 300 odd games, which imo at least gives him the right to comment on footy in the media, whether we agree with what he says or not.

[Damo]

He wasn't damaging with the football.

There was footage showing an opposition teams whiteboard before the game allowing him to gain possessions because he wasn't damaging at all.

Spent a large portion of his career as a "kick chaser".

However he did spend a lot of the earlier stage of his career as a tagger.

[big tone]

He wasn't damaging with the football.

There was footage showing an opposition teams whiteboard before the game allowing him to gain possessions because he wasn't damaging at all.

Spent a large portion of his career as a "kick chaser".

However he did spend a lot of the earlier stage of his career as a tagger.

He has a very good record for a "kick chaser"
Two time AA,  4 B&F's and 300 games probably says he was better than that.
That record stacks up against any midfielder we have had for a long while.

And your comments about him not being damaging with the footy is a little naive as not all mids especially inside mids are damaging with the footy. In fact it's pretty rare.

I'm sure if he played his career as a Tiger we would all be marvelling at his work rate and his career.

[Assange Tiger 😎]

No, I actually think Cornes would have been maligned because he was a terrible user of the footy who used to pressure young players into dishing off to him around the back after a stuff. That's where 10 of his disposals per game came from. HThis was until he was dropped and forced to change his ways. Hence why a few people are perplexed that him off all people has the audacity to call anyone else a kick chaser. Cotchin has been doing the same rubbish of late

[Penelope]

wouldnt a kick chaser be as well placed as anyone identify kick chasers?

[(•))(©™]

Let's all talk about the guy who wrote the article.

[big tone]

No, I actually think Cornes would have been maligned because he was a terrible user of the footy who used to pressure young players into dishing off to him around the back after a stuff. That's where 10 of his disposals per game came from. HThis was until he was dropped and forced to change his ways. Hence why a few people are perplexed that him off all people has the audacity to call anyone else a kick chaser. Cotchin has been doing the same rubbish of late

Let's be honest, all midfielders (except taggers) are kick chasers, the big difference between the good ones and the BEllis ones are how hard they work the other way and when they haven't got the pill.
K. Cornes may not have been a great users of the footy but he did work hard.
And like I said before, players that play 300 AFL games must have done a whole lot right during their careeers.