He Chimpa was impacting when he lead the turnaround against the Dogs before pinging his hammy and had been lifting in his form.
Cotchie is not fit hes not had the chance to get conditioned up to where he needs to be to play his best.
No real chance to put the soft tissue demons away this season and not enough contioning to help keep them at bay early doors, with the pre season or lack of.
Edwards, Lambert and Prestia the same, the demand has been too much the preparation was not long enough.
Throw in another month away from his family and it has got on top of him.
He will play next year after a good rest a good pre season and better management.
He is not alone, plenty of others not getting near it either.
Lets take a quick look across the board.
Noah had not been having an overly great year he had a couple of good games but seemed off the pace and out of position regularly and then suffered a *smile* injury.
Broady consistent all season (one of only a half dozen or so this season) his best season of work over his career and held the backline together when others were playing below par, then bang gone with a syndemosis same as Noah in the same $%&#&# game no less.
Edwards was a shell of himself when he returned and Dion and Lambo also not the same.
Danny Rioli has struggled all year, so has George and Liam Baker save for a 3 game burst in the bests has been off his best als for most of the season and played with a lack of discipline at times.
Even the great Dylan Grimes had a very slow run into form and was off the pace and un Grimes like in many earlier games.
Grover has been well down this season, whilst Aarts has also struggled to impact consistently outside of a 3 odd game run of good games.
Pickett has actually been one of our hardest triers this year and has had a crack, been up and down with regard to performance and decision making but has put in effort.
Vlas has been off the mark nearly all year except his last game or three then injured again.
Jack Graham has had his usual one top game then 3odd games not so great inconsistency this year again also.
Bash the same as others with cursed soft tissues has been nowhere near it this year lacking mobility confidence touch and penetration on his kicks after his calf exploded, and spent his pre season rehabbing not actually getting work into himself and its showed in his footy this season.
Short has been down on impact and performance, disregard the cheap stats and Fantasy Points scores padding from handball receives and kick ins, and Jack Ross seemingly has again gone backwards this year be it playing out of position, loss of confidence, or his body composition but has never regained his early form.
Tommy and Dave were carrying knee injuries and Achilles tendinopathy / tendonitis respectively and trying to play with these injuries, but eventually had to have these issues addressed.
Nank was having a huge year and carried the side with Dusty, Shai, Jack and Broady pretty much the only other really reliable and consistent performers this season.
Then Nank goes down again and we don't have Soldo .....disaster.
Its just been a shithouse year and we've been swimming against the Rip Tide the whole time eventually you either realise you swim off it or you go under.
We must keep Bolton...........we must keep him.