Reply to thread

Say you get Boak in

He’s ancient. He has no relationships in the team. It takes him months to build those. The season is nearly over. He is out of the starting 22.

Not super beneficial.

Guys at 27 who are great leaders are usually expensive FA or trade targets.

You would want your big signings to bring a lot. McKay doesn’t seem a leader unfortunately. He seems like a mopey unit with massive hands. Hope I’m wrong.

Hodge was great at Brisbane but Brisbane already had far better young leaders than EFC. The other reason that worked is that Hodge and Fagan were of the same school so it all worked from day one - plus Hodge is probably one of the best 2 or 3 playing leaders in the last 20 years.

Clubs primarily need to develop leadership from within. It takes ages and won’t just automatically happen with time. Starts with recruiting true competitors. Hobbs and Caldwell are the only ones I see who could break the mold. Langford, McGrath, Draper.. more of the same.