Lethal's last word: Is Cotchin overrated? ............. (afl site)

[Smokey]

Nope.  If our team played with half the attitude that Mathews played every game of his career then we would have won last night by many goals.

[Crazy_Ivan]

Poor Cotch has been hit with the same curse thats hit every other tiger captain since 1980.Its a poisioned chalice being Captain of the RFC.I think we have to change our policy when it comes to appointing the captain.Give it to someone like Jackson.

[Chuck17]

Poor Cotch has been hit with the same curse thats hit every other tiger captain since 1980.Its a poisioned chalice being Captain of the RFC.I think we have to change our policy when it comes to appointing the captain.Give it to someone like Jackson.

Whoa hold on there Jacko has been our best player this year, don't want to ruin such a great player with the burden of captaincy

[Crazy_Ivan]

Poor Cotch has been hit with the same curse thats hit every other tiger captain since 1980.Its a poisioned chalice being Captain of the RFC.I think we have to change our policy when it comes to appointing the captain.Give it to someone like Jackson.

Whoa hold on there Jacko has been our best player this year, don't want to ruin such a great player with the burden of captaincy

Surely it wouldn't effect Jacko,s pinpoint passing as it has Cotch?

[Chuck17]

Poor Cotch has been hit with the same curse thats hit every other tiger captain since 1980.Its a poisioned chalice being Captain of the RFC.I think we have to change our policy when it comes to appointing the captain.Give it to someone like Jackson.

Whoa hold on there Jacko has been our best player this year, don't want to ruin such a great player with the burden of captaincy

Surely it wouldn't effect Jacko,s pinpoint passing as it has Cotch?

It could do, don't know if the risk should be taken

[Stripes]

pretty much agree with what you say stripes, although i think raw numbers would show more than rankings.

I agree al but it is pretty amazing to compare the amount of 2013 effective kicks of each player and see that they are both in the top 20 and only two places apart. Cotch has become the number one focus for all opposition clubs now and midfield units. Not only is he being tagged but he is being worked over by complete midfielders. We need our midfield helping Cotch to find space and keep the tagger honest which has been a problem for us for years with Lids, Foley and now Cotch.

That dinky kick he does that goes as far as a handball is a waste - just handball Cotch!

Matthews was a star in his time but can Dusty develop the tank to match his exploits in the future....I hope so! 

[Tigers of Old]

I agree al but it is pretty amazing to compare the amount of 2013 effective kicks of each player and see that they are both in the top 20 and only two places apart. Cotch has become the number one focus for all opposition clubs now and midfield units. Not only is he being tagged but he is being worked over by complete midfielders. We need our midfield helping Cotch to find space and keep the tagger honest which has been a problem for us for years with Lids, Foley and now Cotch.

Spot on. We need others to help give him the chopout. Cats did that brilliantly for Gazza jnr a few years back.
Mind you Gazza is now doing it without them too..

[gerkin greg]

Thread is a disgrace

Hardly a prude but should be locked and some bans handed out IMO