Leadership Group 2018

[mateinone]

Given the high number of young players on our list, a bigger leadership group is not an unreasonable approach to take. As the players become older, more experienced etc., I'm sure the leadership group will shrink.

I don't really understand that logic Paul, I think you are saying there are so many 'learning' because of the youth profile, so therefore more leaders are needed, but I don't buy into that at all.
The club already appoints mentors to the young players and ou might have one lead mentor for the entire U/21 group, but I think larger leaderships dilute messages, as unintentional as it may be, because each 'leader' will have a different way of delivering their message. There are people that others will naturally gravitate to also and that is okay, they don't need to be in the official leadership, but to me.. having a small number of leaders that absolutely make the defining calls is key.