Cotchin's captaincy [merged]

[lamington]

Which captains are a prodigious , forwards kick and have the leadership of Rommel?

Mundy ?
Murphy?
Goddard?
Jones?
Boak?
Mcveigh?

i actually think Bob Murphy is a great kick. His disposal efficiency is a lot higher than Cotchin's also. Of course Murphy isn't the in and under player that Cotchin is but the release kick from the backline which set s them up which worked really well for them before he got injured.

I think the point is everyone on this forum wants him to recapture his 2012 form. Where he had very punishing handballs forward of centre and he would always find a way to kick the ball like this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0NOflZ8lanc

I think Cotchin is an amazing player. I will never knock him as a player. However I personally think Lids would make a better captain.

Marc Murphy...

bob is a gun but he is old and broken. Chimp may well mature into a good leader too?

bob wasnt that good at cotchin current age

ahhh yes I forgot about the other murphy. yeah I don't particularly rate him and yes I don't think his kicking has been particularly crash hot other than his 2011 season.

McVeigh was pretty handy tonight but he has the luxury of having a Kennedy, Mitchell and Hannerbery to get their hands dirty and extract the contested ball

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team started winning when he was out

[Diocletian]

Ah yes who can ever forget that magnificent one match winning streak we went on during his two match absence...

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[Stalin]

Ah yes who can ever forget that magnificent one match winning streak we went on during his two match absence...

The team showed a lot in the honourable seven goal lose 

[Yeahright]

Ah yes who can ever forget that magnificent one match winning streak we went on during his two match absence...

It must have been Houli and/or McIntosh holding us back

[YellowandBlackBlood]

Ah yes who can ever forget that magnificent one match winning streak we went on during his two match absence...

It must have been Houli and/or McIntosh holding us back

The former has been a liability this year (and others)....

[Yeahright]

Our better performances has coincided with Astbury being dropped and Chaplin moving back to a permanent fixture of our backline. Woah

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Yeh....Not from Cotchin getting slated.

[YellowandBlackBlood]

Our better performances has coincided with Astbury being dropped and Chaplin moving back to a permanent fixture of our backline. Woah

Too many changes to really know. Martin playing inside mid, Vlastuin as an extra big bodied mid, Miles playing without injury....the list goes on.

[Tigeritis™©®]

I personally think the club has ruined him, hopefully not to the point where his best is yet to come with the inclusion of a genuine coaching staff that know what they are doing.
I honestly think he still could been in the games elite 5.
In hindsight though the burden of captaincy wasn't good for his development for a player so young,  shouldering the burden of 30+ years of mediocrity and the expectations of the most awesome & passionate supporter base in the world. Luckily he's still a very good player but I firmly believe he could've been the absolute elite of the competition if he was at a better club with a clever coaching panel. ie Geelong or Hawks. Both teams also having both the dumbest most clueless football supporters in Victoria but blessed with the unfortunate ability to be consistently successful despite the stupidity, fickleness and absence of basic football knowledge of said supporter base.




Richmond FC, ruining careers since '83. 

[dwaino]

I've been critical of Cotch as a captain but he's had a few standout games this season now and I'm not talking possession numbers. In fairness though he's done it in games we've won. I just want to see him have a captain's game when the chips are down and we need somebody to stand up and do something inspirational. That pack mark he clunked late then to ice the game surely would have fired the boys up a bit. When you've lost momentum it's moment like that from your captain that lift everyone.

I really don't care about being wrong on these sorts of things. Calling a player out then them making you eat your hat is probably the best thing to be wrong about.

[Chuck17]

Making a lot of posters look really foolish

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It's not that he's making posters look foolish.

That's foolish.

He's making his insipid, inconsistent performances look silly.

Get it right.

I still think he over officiates as evident early in the first when he called for the
Give from Griffiths, who could have landed the ball in the square, and ended up turning it over.

[Go Richo 12]

Not a good captain but a good player.