Captains.

[Thryleon]

It depends.  You would have to be inner sanctum to know whats going on with the players factions and groups.

I think eb1 is on the money when the captain has to be universally liked and respected without being the best player.

These types are sacrificial types.  Their game can go backwards for the good of the team.

Judd should have handed over captaincy to simpson.  Universally respected amongst our players and possibly the oppositions too.  Their fans generally thought he was the right type too.

I see only a few players that fit the bill and keep fronting up each and every week.  Ed curnow.  Only part that is a problem is he doesn't really cry out leader.  Eddie betts.  Problem is its last year.  Weitering.  Im worried that our captaibs have become a target for the opposition last few years and that he and walsh will be nullified by the opponents more readily and frequently if we go down that road.

That leaves me with an unlikely type.  Lachie plowman.  Something tells me this guy is more respected at the club than outside it and his b and f stats over the last few years tell a story.

Given how cursed our captaincy has been im more inclined to pick plowman as the next captain.  He strikes me as a nick maxwell type who punches out of his weight limit often, helps his mates often and probably gives more of himself to his teammates to help them out at his own expense.

Despite all our limitations, we seem to still struggle for leaders with bona-fide credentials and all seem to lack something in those stakes.