Trent Cotchin [merged]

[mightytiges]

Watching the Dawks versus Carltank and Rioli is carving them up. Might be enough to get him over the line, as well as the fact that he plays in a top team.

It's easier playing in a top side IMO but there's an obvious gulf in foot skills between the two.

[Darth Tiger]

Yeah agree that the knock on Palmer is his kicking, but geez, he has carried that Freo midfield as a debutant this season.

A midfield with hacks like Bell, Carr(s), McGone, Schimmer, and all the rest of the purple ooommmppppaaaa looommmmpers pretenders.

Pfff - sorry waste of a post cos its about that club, but still, Palmer has been consistent for the majority of the season and should win the award for performance from Round 2 to Round 22.

[Francois Jackson]

Rioli will take the prize no doubt.

Thursday the odds were  3.50/1 for Cyril. Great odds you would have thought.

He and Palmer best draftees this year no doubt about it. Kruzer doesn't even come close.

[Smokey]

Rioli will take the prize no doubt.

Thursday the odds were  3.50/1 for Cyril. Great odds you would have thought.

He and Palmer best draftees this year no doubt about it. Kruzer doesn't even come close.

You can get on with me.  Palmer will win it in a canter, Rioli second and Cotchin third just in front of Kruezer.

[one-eyed]

NAB Rising Star odds($)

Palmer    1.26
Rioli        3.00
Cotchin  21.00
Morton   21.00
Kreuzer  41.00
Riewoldt 51.00

[mightytiges]

Cotch won't win the award but he's the best kid out of last year's draft. At 18 years old wins most of his footy contested, strength already to break away from two tacklers  and burst into space, almost our best tackler himself already. Just so much poise and the balance of a cat. Skills to match on both feet. Thanks Carlton for bypassing him .

[jezza]

Kreuzer will be great too, would have been more than happy with either. Palmer may well win, but I liken him more to Justin Sherman who had a great breakout year, but hasn't gone on with it.

[Stripes]

On todays broadcast Ox was a huge rap for Cotch. I also heard him say a similiar thing about him on Ch 7s footshow this morning. Claims that Palmer will win the Rising Star but Cotch will be the best player out of an outstanding group over 10 years.

In the past the Ox has been an unabashed Tigers hater but today he spoke in glowing terms about our young players and our future on the back of players like Cotch, Lids, Moore, White and Riewoldt.

Good to hear non-Richmond people start to speak up our players and future

Stripes

[tigersalive]

On todays broadcast Ox was a huge rap for Cotch. I also heard him say a similiar thing about him on Ch 7s footshow this morning. Claims that Palmer will win the Rising Star but Cotch will be the best player out of an outstanding group over 10 years.

In the past the Ox has been an unabashed Tigers hater but today he spoke in glowing terms about our young players and our future on the back of players like Cotch, Lids, Moore, White and Riewoldt.

Good to hear non-Richmond people start to speak up our players and future

Stripes

Cotch and Rioli are the best smalls from the draft clearly imo, 15-20 disposals and they've done as much damage as the average player would do with 30-35 disposals.  Palmer is a ball winner but not very creative or damaging considering his disposals and rarely breaks lines.  Palmer is still a player every team needs, a magnetic ball winner, but he'll never be a superstar imo unless he can find a another level of speed and fix his wayward kicking.  I see a lot of Damien Peverill/Mark Johnson in him.

[one-eyed]

Garry Lyon has Cotchin third

Rhys Palmer, Cyril Rioli to lead way in NAB Rising Star
Garry Lyon | September 02, 2008

5 Votes: Rhys Palmer

4 Votes: Cyril Rioli

3 Votes: Trent Cotchin

No pre-season and a late start to the year was the only thing stopping Cotchin joining these two. I think he may end up being the pick of this year's list. From the moment he scored a goal with his first kick in senior football, everything he does has reeked of class.

He has a strong body, is extremely clean with his hands, makes good decisions with the ball and not once during the year did he look overawed, regardless of the company he was in or the opposition he confronted.

Sometimes you watch a young player and you are struck with the way they 'carry' themselves. I've never met Trent, but I've watched him closely and he has 'leader' stamped on his forehead. Like the Cats with Selwood, Richmond has a beauty on its hands.

2 Votes: Nathan Brown

1 Vote: Matthew Kreuzer

http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/sport/afl/story/0,26576,24278861-19742,00.html

[cub]

Hmmmm must of posted this somewhere else  ???

Palmer will win.

Cotchin will be the best 

[one-eyed]

Emma Quayle (from the Age) has a new book 'The Draft' while follows Cotchin and 4 other draftees through the draft process last year


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Young stars have their stories told in The Draft
By Matt Burgan
 6:00 PM Tue 02 September, 2008

FIVE AFL young guns have been documented in a new football book titled The Draft, which follows their transition from elite junior players to their recruitment into the AFL system. 

Richmond's Trent Cotchin, Hawthorn's Cyril Rioli, West Coast's Brad Ebert, St Kilda's Ben McEvoy and Sydney Swans' Patrick Veszpremi were all followed by highly-respected journalist Emma Quayle (The Age) in their final junior year of football.

The book also highlights their journey into the AFL system via last year's NAB AFL Draft.

Cotchin, one of the most promising youngsters in the competition, spoke of his experiences with the book, when it was launched by AFL chief executive Andrew Demetriou at the MCG on Tuesday.

"It's not an opportunity everyone gets at such a young age," Cotchin said, who has been nominated for this year's NAB AFL Rising Star, but believes Rioli should win the award.

"To be involved with Emma all throughout the last year or so [has been great] and for it to finally come to an end – it looks good as well."

All five players have debuted in 2008, with Ebert also a NAB AFL Rising Star nominee.

Cotchin said Quayle approached him at the Australian Institute of Sport.

"She said: 'I'm interested in catching up with you every now and then and I'm going to write a book'," Cotchin said.

"I went back and spoke to my parents about it and we said: 'Let's give it a go'."

The Draft goes behind the scenes and tells the inside story on the drafting process, told from the five players' perspective and also through recruiters, parents and junior coaches.

It also highlights Hawthorn's drafting process, with player personnel and strategy general manager Chris Pelchen and his recruiting team central to the book.

http://www.afl.com.au/News/NEWSARTICLE/tabid/208/Default.aspx?newsId=66903

[Francois Jackson]

Cyril will win the award and top it off by finding himself in the AA team.

he will storm home and easily take this out.

palmer no chance.

[Moi]

Cyril will win the award and top it off by finding himself in the AA team.

Don't think he's even in the squad!

[Francois Jackson]

Cyril will win the award and top it off by finding himself in the AA team.

Don't think he's even in the squad!

well he shuld. he is a deadset gun.
when are we going to say that about a player we drafted not in the first few.

we had so many chances at drafts and we screwed it up with duds like Meyer, JON, Pettifer and Patto