Co-Captains for 2025 : Thu Nov 28, 2024 5:13 pm  

Cam Smith and Ash Handley handed co-Captainship for the 2025 season.

Re: Co-Captains for 2025 : Thu Nov 28, 2024 6:17 pm  

stupid idea. there should be one voice

Re: Co-Captains for 2025 : Thu Nov 28, 2024 6:42 pm  

Croft for me

Re: Co-Captains for 2025 : Thu Nov 28, 2024 7:14 pm  

tad rhino wrote:

stupid idea. there should be one voice

Agree but maybe didn't want to take off Smith but possibly an indication that he might not be an automatic starter

Re: Co-Captains for 2025 : Thu Nov 28, 2024 9:02 pm  

Smith didn`t appear to get at the players or appear to be pushing them last season.
I agree on Croft and not really seen any captaincy quality in Handley either.

Re: Co-Captains for 2025 : Thu Nov 28, 2024 9:31 pm  

chapylad wrote:

Smith didn`t appear to get at the players or appear to be pushing them last season.
I agree on Croft and not really seen any captaincy quality in Handley either.

Maybe Croft if he was a realistic long term bet, but will he be at the club in 26? 50/50 chance - no better.

Re: Co-Captains for 2025 : Thu Nov 28, 2024 9:34 pm  

I hate things like this, shared captaincies rarely seems to work well and removing the captaincy from a player has not been a positive for us historically.

Re: Co-Captains for 2025 : Fri Nov 29, 2024 7:49 am  

tad rhino wrote:

stupid idea. there should be one voice

When we had our successful period do you think there was only one voice?

Sinfield was named the Captain but speak to the players and they will tell you that that voice was shared between senior players.

In reality the Captain’s armband so to speak is just a title, any successful team will have more than one ‘captain’ in reality.

Doesn’t this happen in the NRL quite often?

Re: Co-Captains for 2025 : Fri Nov 29, 2024 8:46 am  

It's an interesting one.
Neither of them come across as natural captains, but then we don't really have a natural leader at all.
The co-captain thing suggests that Smith will not be on the pitch for 80 mins very much.

Also agree with the comments on Bentley.
He will be used differently next season.
More a middle/13 than a second row.
I think he'll rotate with Smith in games.

Re: Co-Captains for 2025 : Fri Nov 29, 2024 8:49 am  

He's just done what Rohan tried to do a couple of years ago, but with better execution and actually named the "leadership group". The title of captain matters about as much as the squad numbers do. The leaders will stand up and be heard, no matter what, but obviously BA believes Smith and Handley can deliver his message on the pitch best. Congrats to them both/