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Cotchin Tackle On Ablett

Tigeronprowl

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I believe Cotchins brutal tackle on Ablett caused his shoulder injury. If you look closely at the slow motion replay Ablett is grimacing in pain before he hits the ground. Cotch is a battering ram even when he tackles and the force of the collision popped his shoulder out, not the impact when he hit the ground. Another powerful and influential game from our leader where he has fairly taken out a player in a big game.
 
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ToraToraTora

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Seems the shoulder was broken. Parfitt also broke thumb. Stiff scheizen.
 
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I believe Cotchins brutal tackle on Ablett caused his shoulder injury. If you look closely at the slow motion replay Ablett is grimacing in pain before he hits the ground. Cotch is a battering ram even when he tackles and the force of the collision popped his shoulder out, not the impact when he hit the ground. Another powerful and influential game from our leader where he has fairly taken out a player in a big game.

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should go OK, by all accounts they are picking up the doyen of Grand Final's , Jeremy Cameron
Just as adding Tom Hawkins to the prelim side we beat easily made the difference this year, adding JC to the GF side we beat easily will make the difference next year.
 
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AngryAnt

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I believe Cotchins brutal tackle on Ablett caused his shoulder injury. If you look closely at the slow motion replay Ablett is grimacing in pain before he hits the ground. Cotch is a battering ram even when he tackles and the force of the collision popped his shoulder out, not the impact when he hit the ground. Another powerful and influential game from our leader where he has fairly taken out a player in a big game.

Cotchin's left shoulder impacts Ablett's pretty hard. You could be right on that ToP
 

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The tackle didn't look particularly brutal, just hard but fair. The consequences couldn't have been foreseen for Ablett but as we all know the older we get the often innocuous knocks cause more damage.
 
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DavidSSS

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I haven't has a close look but it would be very unusual for a player being tackled to sustain that sort of injury, it just doesn't put the force through the joint, even with a battering ram like Cotchin.

Much more likely to be the weight of the body through the joint as it hits the ground.

Normally I would agree, but you can see the grimace as he goes down, not just after he has hit the turf.

It sure looks like something went before he hit the ground.

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bandoftigers

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It was a good tackle and I’m sure Ablett felt it, but Ablett would have sustained the injury when he hit the ground. He has his arm out and rotated in slightly, and hits the ground on his elbow and The force of his weight and Cotchins weight is applied up his arm and you can see his shoulder dislocate posteriorly. The way he falls into his elbow and the force applied would be consistent with causing a posterior shoulder dislocation and these can often be associated with fractures which we have been told he has, although what exactly he fractured we don’t know. My interpretation of it is that he sustains the injury when he hits the ground.
 
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jb03

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It was a good tackle and I’m sure Ablett felt it, but Ablett would have sustained the injury when he hit the ground. He has his arm out and rotated in slightly, and hits the ground on his elbow and The force of his weight and Cotchins weight is applied up his arm and you can see his shoulder dislocate posteriorly. The way he falls into his elbow and the force applied would be consistent with causing a posterior shoulder dislocation and these can often be associated with fractures which we have been told he has, although what exactly he fractured we don’t know. My interpretation of it is that he sustains the injury when he hits the ground.
I'm with @Tigeronprowl Watching the replay he was grimacing after the tackle but before he hit the ground. Cotchin tackles hard by definition.
 
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artball

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i've seen Cotch lay heavier tackles than that .. and Abletts left shoulder is corroded plastic