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  • TheHood
    On the Rookie List
    • Jan 2003
    • 1938
    #1

    Next Captain?

    Kirk retires and assuming the 3 skipper policy remains, who is going to take his place?

    Bolts, Goodes & XXXXXX

    Hanners? Let him play without burden for a while longer
    Jack? Would be prime and very good at it in anyone elses team
    Jude? Already a leader and would look a bit tokenistic at this late stage
    ROK? Slightly down on form this year and some injury there and just keen tags keeping him busy

    I think Kieran should get it but if Swans are true to form on elder statesmen, then probably ROK to keep the balance of 1 back, 1 mid, 1 forward as well.

    I would have no probs with ROK being our 2011 skipper. He's a gun, a favourite son and speaks a lot of sense.
    The Pain of Discipline is Nothing Like The Pain of Disappointment
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    • Jesse Richards
      On the Rookie List
      • Mar 2010
      • 292
      #2
      Jude, the other Blood Warrior.

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        • Triple B
          Formerly 'BBB'
          • Feb 2003
          • 6999
          #3
          I'd just leave it at the two left, move Hanners into the leadership group and he'll be ready to step into the captaincy spot in a few years when Goodesy hangs up the boots.

          Hanners just looks every ounce a leader.
          Driver of the Dan Hannebery bandwagon....all aboard. 4th April 09

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            • magic.merkin
              Senior Player
              • Jul 2008
              • 1199
              #4
              Hanners? Just doesn't sit well, yet.

              Anyway I don't believe anyone can make a call on this outside of the group. We just simply have no clue who is a voice, and mentor.

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                • Jesse Richards
                  On the Rookie List
                  • Mar 2010
                  • 292
                  #5
                  Originally posted by magic.merkin

                  Anyway I don't believe anyone can make a call on this outside of the group. We just simply have no clue who is a voice, and mentor.
                  Well that's the end of this thread, I guess.

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                    • magic.merkin
                      Senior Player
                      • Jul 2008
                      • 1199
                      #6
                      haha I mean we can guess, but it's not something we can easily measure and pass judgement on. How they play etc, we can, but this feels like guestimates.
                      Last edited by magic.merkin; 31 August 2010, 04:03 PM.

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                        • Primmy
                          Proud Tragic Swan
                          • Apr 2008
                          • 5970
                          #7
                          I would b e surprised if it wasn't either Peb or Macca. Macca is my first pick as he does so much organising on the ground and the players listen to him. He is definitely in charge on ground.

                          Hanners and Jack in a couple of years. Nineteen is waayy too young to be captain of blokes over ten years older than him. Wouldn't be fair on him either.
                          Last edited by Primmy; 31 August 2010, 04:06 PM.
                          If you've never jumped from one couch to the other to save yourself from lava then you didn't have a childhood

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                            • Damien
                              Living in 2005
                              • Jan 2003
                              • 3713
                              #8
                              Macca, but Horse may be comfortable with co-captains instead of 3.

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                                • Triple B
                                  Formerly 'BBB'
                                  • Feb 2003
                                  • 6999
                                  #9
                                  Originally posted by magic.merkin
                                  Hanners? Just doesn't sit well, yet.

                                  Anyway I don't believe anyone can make a call on this outside of the group. We just simply have no clue who is a voice, and mentor.
                                  Did you miss this part?

                                  Originally posted by Triple B
                                  .......in a few years when Goodesy hangs up the boots.
                                  I don't necessarily agree we have no clue on who is a voice or mentor. It's pretty clear to me and others that Hanners has a LOT more to say on the field then the average 19yo 'junior' player. His constant revving up and encouragement of teammates along with just his general body language suggest he has leadership material written all over him.

                                  I have far more of an issue when the likes of Bevo and Mathews before him get constantly smashed on RWO for consistently getting games, when it's obvious that the coaching staff have asked them to do a job and they obviously have carried out that job, hence keep their place.

                                  That's the type of thing that us guys looking in from the outside have no clue about.
                                  Driver of the Dan Hannebery bandwagon....all aboard. 4th April 09

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                                    • teddys mum
                                      Warming the Bench
                                      • Apr 2010
                                      • 130
                                      #10
                                      Originally posted by Damien
                                      Macca, but Horse may be comfortable with co-captains instead of 3.
                                      yep
                                      up the guts

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                                        • cruiser
                                          What the frack!
                                          • Jul 2004
                                          • 6114
                                          #11
                                          Originally posted by Jesse Richards
                                          Jude, the other Blood Warrior.
                                          Yep. Captain in his final year would be a fitting tribute.
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                                            • Xie Shan
                                              Senior Player
                                              • Jan 2003
                                              • 2929
                                              #12
                                              Jude.

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                                                • mcs
                                                  Travelling Swannie!!
                                                  • Jul 2007
                                                  • 8227
                                                  #13
                                                  Macca for me. He directs a lot of players around the ground already, and has time on his side. Too late for the mighty warrior Bolton, and imo too early for either Jack or Hanners.
                                                  "You get the feeling that like Monty Python's Black Knight, the Swans would regard amputation as merely a flesh wound."

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                                                    • liz
                                                      Veteran
                                                      Site Admin
                                                      • Jan 2003
                                                      • 16844
                                                      #14
                                                      Rok

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                                                        • scolsey22
                                                          On the Rookie List
                                                          • May 2009
                                                          • 46
                                                          #15
                                                          The Irish Warrior

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