Player Watch #9: Trent Cotchin is an obscenely good 3 x Premiership Captain, Victorian Captain & Brownlow Medalist

[BillHickman]

Yep, it's been reported that they offered him $300k to play on same as Jack. A pay drop but they need the money to attract new players.

No way you can pay for this lot with only 300k per year...

 

[Karp3_dm]

Get him to 300 then put him on ice until finals so he can have 1 last tilt at full kamikaze possessed Cotch mode
Be epic if it pays off

 

[PuntRd_Seal]

How the AFL media dont give this bloke the credit he's due is criminal. They would rather suck off a bloke who's made a career of exploiting a rule and wearing a bandaid every week.

 

[_RT_]

Doesn't have the C next to his name but still regard him as one

 

[Rioli2Rioli]

Remember the days when he used to push a car up punt rd

"I started off pushing a little car and finished up pushing a station wagon,"

 

[Rayzorwire]

Great news we'll get a chance to see you go around again, skipper.

 

[Rioli2Rioli]

For anybody who is even doubting the value of Trent Cotchin

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Trent Cotchin

Age

34

Ht

185cm

Wt

86kg

Pos.

M/F

Career

Season

Last 5

D

23.4

5star

K

13.8

5star

HB

9.5

5star

M

3.4

3star

T

3.9

5star

CL

5.2

5star

D

19.0

4star

K

9.5

4star

HB

9.5

5star

M

2.7

3star

T

4.3

5star

CL

3.5

4star

D

16.6

4star

K

8.0

3star

HB

8.6

5star

M

4.6

5star

T

1.0

3star

for another year should look at comparisons to the " Geelong Champ"
Patrick Dangerfield who by the way is contracted until the end of 2024 on good coin. They are the same age and from the same draft

Patrick Dangerfield and Trent Cotchin AFL Stats Comparison

Patrick Dangerfield and Trent Cotchin AFL Stats Comparison.

www.footywire.com

 

[STRUGGLETOWN EST1885]

Cotch to play his 300th against Cats in the 2023 finals to end their season. Go out with a bang in the process to destroy the corio sooks one last time.

 

[Defibrillate]

Left field question - but is Cotch also being kept around to help bed in a different Captain? I think Grimma may struggle to get on the park from here on in, and Nank’s ill discipline would have pissed off the coaching group. I don’t think the dual Captaincy has been great at all and might need a reset.

Lynch, Vlaustin, Graham………?

 

[RedmanWasHere]

Lynch, Vlaustin, Graham………?

Liam Baker?

 

[Lacustrus]

Liam Baker?

TT

 

[energyquant]

He'll become a ballistic 60% TOG player. Storm trooper. Smash into the contested ball, bring his best footy and lift those around him. Then get a good rest before doing it all again. Won't play against the teams with pure leg speed through the middle of the ground.

 

[Jungle Noise]

He'll become a ballistic 60% TOG player. Storm trooper. Smash into the contested ball, bring his best footy and lift those around him. Then get a good rest before doing it all again. Won't play against the teams with pure leg speed through the middle of the ground.

Also don’t expect Cotchin on a plane ️ to Perth or possibly other interstate games


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[Rioli2Rioli]

Cotchin wont play more than 15 /16 games next year including finals if we get TT/JH

Give him the interstate games and Easy win games off and same with Dion
rest the boys against the crap teams and just bring them in against the top teams and finals

 

[Tiger_Of_Old]

Extract from Ash Bartys Book.

MY MATE TRENT THE TIGER​

Ash Barty does not have a big brother, but there are times when Richmond AFL captain Trent Cotchin

9

Trent Cotchin

Age

34

Ht

185cm

Wt

86kg

Pos.

M/F

Career

Season

Last 5

D

23.4

5star

K

13.8

5star

HB

9.5

5star

M

3.4

3star

T

3.9

5star

CL

5.2

5star

D

19.0

4star

K

9.5

4star

HB

9.5

5star

M

2.7

3star

T

4.3

5star

CL

3.5

4star

D

16.6

4star

K

8.0

3star

HB

8.6

5star

M

4.6

5star

T

1.0

3star

appears to fill this role in her life.

This much is clear from the pair’s close relationship, which extends not simply through the fact that Barty is a Richmond tragic, but because they both work closely with mindset coach Ben Crowe – a key member of Barty’s inner circle.

The athletes first met a decade ago, when Barty was based in Melbourne. They would run together, watch each other train, and she would go to Cotchin’s house for dinner with his wife Brooke and kids, she reveals in memoir My Dream Time. And the bond remains strong.

“Because he is an exceptional human being he has this sense of knowing when I need a mate, when I need a coffee or a text,” Barty told News Corp. “He has this incredible ability to uplift people and lead people and be funny and joke around and lighten things up.

“He has been so kind to me. It’s pretty amazing. As athletes we can share our journey.”

At key times in her career, Barty has found texts from Cotchin the perfect tonic, especially after her biggest disappointments.

Ash Barty presented the premiership cup to Trent Cotchin

9

Trent Cotchin

Age

34

Ht

185cm

Wt

86kg

Pos.

M/F

Career

Season

Last 5

D

23.4

5star

K

13.8

5star

HB

9.5

5star

M

3.4

3star

T

3.9

5star

CL

5.2

5star

D

19.0

4star

K

9.5

4star

HB

9.5

5star

M

2.7

3star

T

4.3

5star

CL

3.5

4star

D

16.6

4star

K

8.0

3star

HB

8.6

5star

M

4.6

5star

T

1.0

3star

in 2020. Picture: Michael Klein
“He tends to send messages that go like this: It was a tennis match. You lost. Get over it. No big deal. I love you, mate,” Barty writes in her book.

One example of Cotchin’s ability to send the right message at the right time came after Barty was shattered by a 2021 Australian Open quarterfinal loss to Karolina Muchova after winning the first set 6-1 a break up in the second set.

“Right now, I feel judged. She’s thrown it away. She’s screwed it up. She’s choked,” she writes. “Cotch knows how easy it is to hear those voices, so he replaces them with the affirmations he’s found in football.

“One of them is ‘You haven’t been buried, you’ve been planted’, but my favourite is his personal mantra: ‘Your greatest growth comes from your darkest times.’

“In this dark time, he sends me a long text, explaining how he was able to watch me play until late in the second set, when I was faltering. So he didn’t see the collapse, but he read about it later.”

“The text read: “Ash, I know nothing will really help, nor change anything, as you have all the answers, and you know it doesn’t change the incredible human you are and the impact you’re having on others.

“I’m proud of your continued growth! I’m grateful to watch and learn from you on how to be a special and authentic human being! Love you, mate! Chat to you soon.”

Barty is a diehard Tigers supporter. Picture: AAP

 

[Marcel Proust]

What a dude

 

[GhostofJimJess]

Extract from Ash Bartys Book.

MY MATE TRENT THE TIGER​

Ash Barty does not have a big brother, but there are times when Richmond AFL captain Trent Cotchin appears to fill this role in her life.

This much is clear from the pair’s close relationship, which extends not simply through the fact that Barty is a Richmond tragic, but because they both work closely with mindset coach Ben Crowe – a key member of Barty’s inner circle.

The athletes first met a decade ago, when Barty was based in Melbourne. They would run together, watch each other train, and she would go to Cotchin’s house for dinner with his wife Brooke and kids, she reveals in memoir My Dream Time. And the bond remains strong.

“Because he is an exceptional human being he has this sense of knowing when I need a mate, when I need a coffee or a text,” Barty told News Corp. “He has this incredible ability to uplift people and lead people and be funny and joke around and lighten things up.

“He has been so kind to me. It’s pretty amazing. As athletes we can share our journey.”

At key times in her career, Barty has found texts from Cotchin the perfect tonic, especially after her biggest disappointments.

Ash Barty presented the premiership cup to Trent Cotchin in 2020. Picture: Michael Klein
“He tends to send messages that go like this: It was a tennis match. You lost. Get over it. No big deal. I love you, mate,” Barty writes in her book.

One example of Cotchin’s ability to send the right message at the right time came after Barty was shattered by a 2021 Australian Open quarterfinal loss to Karolina Muchova after winning the first set 6-1 a break up in the second set.

“Right now, I feel judged. She’s thrown it away. She’s screwed it up. She’s choked,” she writes. “Cotch knows how easy it is to hear those voices, so he replaces them with the affirmations he’s found in football.

“One of them is ‘You haven’t been buried, you’ve been planted’, but my favourite is his personal mantra: ‘Your greatest growth comes from your darkest times.’

“In this dark time, he sends me a long text, explaining how he was able to watch me play until late in the second set, when I was faltering. So he didn’t see the collapse, but he read about it later.”

“The text read: “Ash, I know nothing will really help, nor change anything, as you have all the answers, and you know it doesn’t change the incredible human you are and the impact you’re having on others.

“I’m proud of your continued growth! I’m grateful to watch and learn from you on how to be a special and authentic human being! Love you, mate! Chat to you soon.”

Barty is a diehard Tigers supporter. Picture: AAP

Love the story that Daisy Pearce tells about Cotch.

One Sunday morning on a match day a couple of seasons back she turns up at Punt Road where she was meant to meet up with Peggy to run an interview with our Pres. The place was deserted, the reception all locked up and nobody on duty. She knocked at the front door of the building intermittently for a couple of minutes without any luck. No one around at all, and she didn't have Peggy's personal number.

Trent Cotchin turned up a few minutes later with a key to get into the building, and also had Peggy's mobile number and gave her a call for Daisy. Apparently Peggy was caught in traffic and running a bit late, so Trent invited Daisy into the otherwise empty building, told her to take a seat, and went and made her a coffee.

While they were sitting having a bit of a natter, there was a sheepish knock on the tinted glass, with a random Richmond supporter with his young son peeking inside trying to see if there was any sign of life. Instead of just ignoring him, Cotch went to the door, opened it up and asked the very surprised bloke if he needed a hand with something. The very sheepish supporter apologised and said that he'd accidentally left his and his son's membership cards at home, and was hoping the main office was open to get a temporary pass printed off to save him the 2 hour round trip home and back to get the cards.

Instead of just fobbing the bloke off and telling him he'd missed the office hours, Cotch invited them both in, introduced them to Daisy Pearce, got the kid a coke, went out to office area, booted up one of the computers, and proceeded to print off some free passes for bloke and his son for that afternoon's match.

Daisy Pearce told how she just sat there gobsmacked as all this was going. She knew that Cotch had no idea who the bloke was, but went about looking after him anyway, just because he was Richmond member in a spot of trouble.

 

[Tiger_Of_Old]

Love the story that Daisy Pearce tells about Cotch.

One Sunday morning on a match day a couple of seasons back she turns up at Punt Road where she was meant to meet up with Peggy to run an interview with our Pres. The place was deserted, the reception all locked up and deserted. She knocked at the front door of the building intermittently for a couple of minutes without any luck. No one around at all, and she didn't have Peggy's personal number.

Trent Cotchin turned up a few minutes later with a key to get into the building, and also had Peggy's mobile number and gave her a call for Daisy. Apparently Peggy was caught in traffic and running a bit late, so Trent invited Daisy into the otherwise empty building, told her to take a seat, and went and made her a coffee.

While they were sitting having a bit of a natter, there was a sheepish knock on the tinted glass, with a random Richmond supporter with his young son peeking inside trying to see if there was any sign of life inside. Instead of just ignoring him, Cotch went to the door, opened it up and asked the very surprised bloke if he needed a hand with something. The very sheepish supporter apologised and said that he'd accidentally left his and his son's membership cards at home, and was hoping the main office was open to get a temporary pass printed off to save him the 2 hour round trip home and back to get the cards.

Instead of just fobbing the bloke off and telling him he'd missed the office hours, Cotch invited them both in, introduced them to Daisy Pearce, got the kid a coke, went out to office area, booted up one of the computers, and proceeded to print off some free passes for bloke and his son for that afternoon's match.

Daisy Pearce told how she just sat there gobsmacked as all this was going. She knew that Cotch had no idea who the bloke was, but went about looking after him anyway, just because he was Richmond member on a spot of trouble.

How lucky are we to have a captain like Cotch.
Led on and off the field.

 

[Tigeral]

How lucky are we to have a captain like Cotch.
Led on and off the field.

I didn't expect to find much on this site today, but you guys sure made my day. Proud to be a Tiger

 

[Grrr]

Got a feeling he will have a good season n '23. A bit more freedom with his role taken somewhat by Hopper and Tarranto. He will play more outside which he will have to love after being Captain Blood II for the past few years.

 

[richoatthedisco]

Yeah but Duckwood did a footy clinic.

 

[TigerMoz1973]

What a legend of a bloke. So happy he's going around again and will play 300 games.

 

[Rioli2Rioli]

Richmonds Dynasty didnt just Happen

It was a combination of 5 stars coming together

Balme , Gale , Peggy , Dimma & Trent but Trent was the Star we watched shine the brightest

 

[tigs2010]

Richmonds Dynasty didnt just Happen

It was a combination of 5 stars coming together

Balme , Gale , Peggy , Dimma & Trent but Trent was the Star we watched shine the brightest

Dusty?

 

[Dr Tigris]

Dusty?

Who?