Dan Tehan (Wannon, Liberal Party, Shadow Minister for Immigration and Citizenship) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

I rise today to acknowledge a Richmond Football Club immortal who announced their retirement today: triple-premiership captain Trent Cotchin. He has been an absolute inspiration to the Richmond Football Club, and I know I speak for all members and supporters in saying: thank you, Trent, for what you have done for our football club, and I wish you all the very best for the future. It will be a bright future, because Trent, who I have got to know over the last decade, is a man of enormous calibre. He is a man of enormous integrity. I know that, whatever he goes on to do, he will do it in a great way.

But it is his contribution to the Richmond Football Club which should be acknowledged today. I will never forget as a supporter that 2017 second qualifying final when we beat Geelong to win our first final since 2001. That pirouette in the forward half when he kicked that goal in the last quarter, as we ran all over Geelong, was something I will never forget. We went on to win three premierships under his stewardship. He led a team of calibre, a team which was built around the ethics which he always portrayed. Trent: thank you, well done and good luck with the future.