Captains.

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When Cripps is 'on' he can be an inspirational leader player.

This isn't news to anyone who visits this forum.

I don't know what deal the club has done that requires this guy to be captain, but it's cruelling his career!

Making your best player the captain by default is dead set dumb, you'll never see Dusty captain of Nthmond.

The trouble is to keep Cripps in the fold he has to be the one making the call, if we kibosh him he'll be done with the club!

People are puzzled by Doc, but it's pretty simple, he's got one good eye and under the current rules he's got next to no time to get a good look around him. Opposition clubs are now focussing on his bad side, it is AFL and being nice leaves you as road kill, it's tough but it is what they do, yet somehow I feel it's not what we would do and that in itself is a problem! We play nice, we've been doing that since the AFL whacked us in the early 2000s.

Weitering wasn't ready until now, but he clearly is ready now and last night is proof of that. I know quite a few on here doubt him, but not me, most of our D50 problems stem from our midfield and forwards. We've too many guys who go flat stick towards the goals and half-rat pace the other way! If there is to be a bias in the system, it has to be the exact opposite of what we do!