Skipper Trent Cotchin backs teammates to turn around fast-slipping season (H-S)

[tony_montana]

maybe we should have recruited paul chapman as cotch doesnt seem to have taken on board that he needs to be harder on his under performing team mates
compare this new age back rubbing to what chapman came out and said about geelong in 2007

"I think at the moment we have probably got some passengers and you can't afford to carry them," he said.

"You need 22 blokes who are going to live your values and just die for your team.

"If you think about it, it is our little war. I know it's not war but a game of footy, but you just need everyone to contribute.

"You can't have blokes picking and choosing, deciding when they want to go and when they don't want to go."

Chapman, one of the Cats' best in yesterday's debacle against the Kangaroos, admitted he was frustrated and angry with what was happening at Skilled Stadium.

"It does make you angry because sometimes it feels as though you go out and do everything you can and then there are some blokes there who aren't doing everything they possibly can," he said.

"You just need a committed 22 players working as hard as they can for the team and then we will win more games than not.

"I reckon we are a good side but not a great team. We have got heaps of talent, probably right up there in the league, I reckon.

"But just playing as a team, coming to play week in, week out is probably the hardest thing we have got to get our heads around, and not pick and choose, just do it."

Like his coach had earlier, Chapman pointed at 18-year-old Joel Selwood, who was playing just his fourth game yesterday, as an example of how players wearing the blue-and-white hoops should perform.

"Joel Selwood was great, he came here to play," he said.

"He was inspiring today, the way that he went at the footy."

On the culture of underachieving and settling for second best which has been a constant slur on the club, Chapman said: "It is not just this year, it is not just last year, it has been around for a while.

"It is something we are going to have to change as a side. You just can't be happy playing and getting your money and having a good lifestyle or whatever it is.

"You have got to go out there and do everything you can to win. You have got blokes like Darren Milburn, who has been here for 13 or 14 years, who hasn't won one (premiership) and you hear him say the culture is still the same.

"That is not the way we want it to be, you want it to change and do everything you can to win."

Everything he said (except for the actual names of players) applies exactly to our situation.

Don't back them in, tell them to pull the finger out or stuff off

and that is the difference between the 2 clubs. They were hard, we are a bunch of softies

[tiga]

One simple line is all that should have been written.

"Judge us by how we play and not what we say." 

Stuff the rhetoric, It's all about accountability now. Put everyone on notice. If they want to play AFL next year then, pull your bloody fingers out!!!



 

[lamington]

Everything he said (except for the actual names of players) applies exactly to our situation.

Don't back them in, tell them to pull the finger out or stuff off

Spot on Al.  And I don't think the current coaching group are capable of doing that any more.

Thanks for digging up the time capsule from Chapman. It's kinda sobering to see the difference between Chapman's presser and Cotchin's.

[Diocletian]

"Just stick to what's written on the flash cards Trent" stuff me, this club's decision making under pressure is as insipid off-field as it is on-field. Whose benefit is this poo for? They must think all our supporters are like the unquestiong, sycophantic halfwits that sit in the cheer squad or Bojangles. FFS.

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Never seen anyone handle a captaincy worse.

Mr Perfect they call him.....

Hes a poster boy for genY

"If i win a premiership id b happy to retire"

FFS

[Phillip]

Sick of these articles. Sick of pathetic performances.

Al's post was brilliant. Go hard or go home.

[tigs2011]

Should I add this to the endless rubbish that I haven't read this year or worth a look?

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its a new level of stupidity.
Go for it

[wayne]

This is going to be the most one-sided Eureka blockbuster ever!

[Hellenic Tiger]

This is going to be the most one-sided Eureka blockbuster ever!

We had our Eureka moment during the week. We are stuffed.
Pathetic footy club.