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**** it, just do a year with no full time captain, where Scott assesses the leaders; rotate weekly.
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I know, I wasn’t taking the specific example of Stringer seriously. Biggest man child of them all.I was not being serious.
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McGrath not best 22 by performance?I could see Co- Captains
The Captain has to be best 22, and not a guy there by reputation more then production so that rules out both Heppell and McGrath.
In terms of the group I’d want a group of 7.
1 Captain
1 line captain
Heppell as Co-Captain who doesn’t always play AFL
AMT as an indigenous representative
Don’t really care who’s “one of the boys” as when you’re trying to change culture. You build culture around your captains personality.
Would hope the group is
Ridley, Redman, Draper, Wright, Heppell AMT
McGrath not best 22 by performance?
I guess our best 22 by performance has maybe 10 players then.
Did you watch at all last year after the bye? He pretty much played half back the entire time. Scott didn't move him into defence.The new coach is literally changing his position because he wasn’t good enough as a midfielder/wing and hoping he will live up to his potential when moved back to the spot he played as a rookie.
If that isn’t the definition of fringe I don’t know what is. I hope he establishes himself at his new position but so far he’s proven nothing and Mass is providing selection pressure in the VFL.
I’d say there was closer to 6-8 players who pick themselves on performance in an established role.
Ridley, Redman, Draper (no competition but hardly elite) Parish, Merrett, Wright. Possibly Martin and Zerk.(also minimal competition)
It's a player that's in and out of a side constantly.If that isn’t the definition of fringe I don’t know what is.
This seems like more of a best 23 discussion so I’m not sure this is the right place for this but here goesDid you watch at all last year after the bye? He pretty much played half back the entire time. Scott didn't move him into defence.
The fact your requirement to not be fringe is to be elite in position says it all. You don't need to be elite to be a lock to start a season. You need to be AFL standard, which is what all of McGrath, Langford, Caldwell, Shiel (who is a better player than Parish, by the way), Snelling (when fit), Laverde, Stringer (when fit), Kelly and Guelfi (when fit) are in addition to your 8. Obviously I'd like to see guys like Snelling, Laverde, Kelly and Guelfi get upgraded but at this stage these guys are good AFL level players.
Yes.Does the captain normally sit on the left or the right of the coach in the team photo?
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The coach's right hand man. The writing is on the wall for Scott. How the players showed up for day one of the pre season told a tale.Does the captain normally sit on the left or the right of the coach in the team photo?
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On his knee.Does the captain normally sit on the left or the right of the coach in the team photo?
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Its disappointing to have seen such significant change within the club and yet we find ourselves unable to make the tough call with regard to the captaincy. It’s also a shame that Heppell doesn’t have the insight into his own position within the club and the list to recognise that it’s time to move on. We’ve seen many players and leaders across the league move on when appropriate or be moved on when they’re not in a position to continue the role they once held. The Essington way is to foster mediocre and steadfastly refuse to enforce standards so I expect we’ll wheel out tired old Heps as captain and pick him week in week out in 2023 despite him not being up to standard, the younger players see the acceptance of the mediocre within the club and fall into line accordingly and we can rinse and repeat as we have done for the past 15 years.
Its disappointing to have seen such significant change within the club and yet we find ourselves unable to make the tough call with regard to the captaincy. It’s also a shame that Heppell doesn’t have the insight into his own position within the club and the list to recognise that it’s time to move on. We’ve seen many players and leaders across the league move on when appropriate or be moved on when they’re not in a position to continue the role they once held. The Essington way is to foster mediocre and steadfastly refuse to enforce standards so I expect we’ll wheel out tired old Heps as captain and pick him week in week out in 2023 despite him not being up to standard, the younger players see the acceptance of the mediocre within the club and fall into line accordingly and we can rinse and repeat as we have done for the past 15 years.
Like a tuna milkshake in the January sun. Maybe the club is finally getting its shit togetheraged well