Richmond nice Matthew Richardson was not completely happy together with his former teammate Trent Cotchin on Friday evening.
The Channel 7 commentator didn’t like what he was seeing as cameras panned to Cotchin standing on the Brisbane bench in full Lions gear.
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“How a lot does this damage your soul Matty Richardson?” Abbey Holmes requested.
Richo didn’t maintain again as he took goal on the former Tigers skipper.
“That’s not Trent Cotchin … what’s going on? Everyone seems to be leaving the Tigers, honest dinkum. That’s it, he’s lifeless to me Cotchin. I’ll by no means converse to him once more.”
Cotchin joined the Lions forward of the 2024 AFL season in a management position that sees him working intently with the membership’s captains.
Cotchin bought the final snort because the Lions emphatically put the brakes on the Western Bulldogs’ mid-season momentum with a complete 43-point victory in an upset end result at Marvel Stadium.
After a seesawing first quarter, which produced 5 lead adjustments, the Lions blew the sport extensive open within the second, with six targets to 1, as they belatedly capitalised on their complete domination of normal play.
At halftime, the Lions had been smashing the Canines in clearances 30-13, contested possessions 79-60, inside 50s 36-19 and disposals 213-157 to guide by 33 factors earlier than working out 17.12 (114) to 10.11 (71) victors.
Eric Hipwood tends to be a whipping boy for Brisbane followers, and with solely two targets in his earlier 5 video games, he gave them loads of causes to be annoyed.
However the 26-year-old performed the most effective match of his 164-game profession in opposition to the Canines, ending up with an equal private finest six targets, to go along with career-highs in disposals (20) and marks (13), in addition to an equal finest 4 contested marks, in opposition to probably the greatest defenders within the competitors Liam Jones.
Hipwood performed like a person possessed as he imposed himself on the competition with unprecedented physicality, freely flying for his marks and helped his group finish the competition early with 4 first-half majors.
Conversely, down the opposite finish of the bottom, with out Aaron Naughton or Sam Darcy up ahead, the Canines had been crying out for somebody to fill the opening, however Rory Lobb might solely muster 5 disposals and Jamarra Ugle-Hagan (two targets) struggled to have an effect.
Jarrod Berry (23 touches and a aim) was additionally pivotal with an incredible tagging job on Bulldogs champion Marcus Bontempelli, protecting arguably the most effective participant within the AFL to 6 disposals within the first half, per week after his best-on-ground effort in opposition to Collingwood, which included a career-high 38 touches.
Bontempelli completed with a good 19 touches and three targets, however crucially he was shut out when the match was up for grabs.
Twin Brownlow Medalist Lachie Neale was excellent for Brisbane as nicely, ending with 38 possessions (14 contested), 10 clearances and two targets.
The Lions ended up creaming the Canines in clearances 50-32 and inside 50s 64-45. The AFL common for marks inside 50 per recreation is 12, but 10 minutes into the second quarter, the Lions already had eight and completed with a whopping 21.
– with Ronny Lerner, NCA Newswire
