Middle tier of players need to lift: Cotchin (Age)

[one-eyed]

From The Age
Daniel Cherny
May 9, 2016

Cotchin said the club's middle band of players needed to lift if the Tigers (1-6) were to salvage something from a season that is fast turning into a write-off.

"I think we forget about how important those guys are to us playing consistent footy," he told Channel Seven. "We can talk about the leaders, we can talk about our young players, but our middle tier group is probably the most important ... and where you're going to get a lot of your wins from.

"The expectation is that you're going to have 15, 16 players performing at a consistent level, week in, week out, and then you have the ability to carry a few."

Cotchin added that the Tigers needed to be more composed with ball in hand. Trailing by nine points at three-quarter time on Friday night, Damien Hardwick's men succumbed meekly, conceding nine final-term goals.

Cotchin said his side's problems had a lot to do with poor ball use. "The noticeable thing for us in the last quarter was just giving up the footy when we had it, especially around the contest.

"You can't afford to cough the ball up as easy [as we did] because teams are too potent going forward now."

Source: The Age website

[Lozza]

From The Age
Daniel Cherny
May 9, 2016

Cotchin said the club's middle band of players needed to lift if the Tigers (1-6) were to salvage something from a season that is fast turning into a write-off.

"I think we forget about how important those guys are to us playing consistent footy," he told Channel Seven. "We can talk about the leaders, we can talk about our young players, but our middle tier group is probably the most important ... and where you're going to get a lot of your wins from.

"The expectation is that you're going to have 15, 16 players performing at a consistent level, week in, week out, and then you have the ability to carry a few."

Cotchin added that the Tigers needed to be more composed with ball in hand. Trailing by nine points at three-quarter time on Friday night, Damien Hardwick's men succumbed meekly, conceding nine final-term goals.

Cotchin said his side's problems had a lot to do with poor ball use. "The noticeable thing for us in the last quarter was just giving up the footy when we had it, especially around the contest.

"You can't afford to cough the ball up as easy [as we did] because teams are too potent going forward now."

Source: The Age website

Sums it up really, we cough the ball up and other teams are potent when going forward. When other teams cough up the ball we in comparison are totally clueless how to transition and so far from being "potent" its not funny.

[Stalin]

but our middle tier group is probably the most important ... and where you're going to get a lot of your wins from.

 

[Raoul Duke]

Sums it up really, we cough the ball up and other teams are potent when going forward. When other teams cough up the ball we in comparison are totally clueless how to transition and so far from being "potent" its not funny.

Its because we have zero fluency when transitioning the ball through the midfield.Our game plan pretty much sucks ass.