Richmond skipper Trent Cotchin has forecast the potential for him to spend more time up forward next season.

Cotchin was part of a midfield/forward rotation with the likes of Brett Deledio, Dustin Martin and Shane Edwards in 2014, which was a key component of the Tigers’ form reversal in the second half of the season.

“I love it.  It’s nice to play deep.  I probably needed to start moving a bit more.  I was relying more on my strengths,” Cotchin told Matthew Richardson in an interview for Roar Vision.

“Hopefully, next year I’ll get a little bit more of an opportunity again, and ‘Dusty’ will probably have that capacity to play even more inside.

“Who knows, I might spend even more time down there.  I love seeing a Robbie Gray and other midfielders who push forward and kick goals.”

Watch part one of Matthew Richardson’s interview with Trent Cotchin

Cotchin described his 2014 season as “relatively consistent”. 

“I probably didn’t get as much outside, quality footy that I would’ve loved to get,” he said.

“I think nowadays, though, we have enough players who can actually provide that sort of quality.

“Me and ‘Milesy’ will work together inside and let our runners – ‘Lids’, ‘Brando’, Bachar and so forth – get a lot of the footy and hit our forwards up, who, hopefully, will put the score on the board for us.”

Cotchin is confident in the midfield group being developed at Tigerland which, alongside the established stars, contains an emerging group of players including Brandon Ellis, Reece Conca and Nick Vlastuin.

“We don’t have the star-studded midfield that everyone spoke about when Dusty was first drafted,” he said.

“Now we have a more complete midfield.  The consistency is to the level we want it to be.

“What we pride ourselves on as a group is contested footy, and having Ivan (Maric) in there driving that is critical.”