I'll agree to disagree DJ.....IMO the next captain will be out of our two best players which are Docherty and Cripps, along with Murphy they are the two most marketed players and who the club hierarchy would want as skipper....IMO.
From Big Nick, Jezza, through to Fitzpatrick, Sticks, Kouta, Judd its been a big name player who gets the job for any decent period of time.......
Even at Hawthorn where Bolton learned his trade it was Mitchell briefly before handing over to another big name in Hodge, Richie Vandenberg filled in for 2-3 years when another star in Crawford retired but he was clearly a fill in and handpicked by Clarkson. I'd be very surprised if Bolton doesnt have a large say in who gets the job... I just cant see us with a Nick Maxwell, Tom Harley..a Mr Average player type who is a factional/club neutral player with some media nous... If we did go that way it would be a short term appointment only IMO until one of the more prominent players was ready....
It may well be Cripps or Docherty EB, but not because they are our most marketable players.
Bolton and Anthony Klarica have made big changes to our leadership program and they may have unearthed several blokes with the attributes to be good leaders over the next few seasons.
I suspect that we have seen the last of the long term captains and we will now see the best skipper appointed each season.
I may be completely off track with this, but I'm pretty sure that Bolton has applied the same rigour to the captaincy as he has to other aspects of our footy department.
Carlton approach is to go with marquee player's as the captain.....I'd be real surprised if they went with a Joe average profile player like Curnow. I dont have a problem with Curnow being captain and reckon he would do a good job but it would be a change in direction and marketing style IMO for it to happen. Cripps and Murphy are the players whose images are used most often in advertising and I would have Cripps as favourite for next captain...
I don't think that's right EB. The captain, vice-captain(s) and leadership group are determined by the players' vote and the coaches' vote and I don't think marquee status comes into it.
As I said in an earlier post, I think that our next captain may be a bit of a surprise but it won't be this season.
We'll be laying naked on fresh tiger skins in front of an open fire drinking cabernet Carlton come the end of round one!
My concern for the conservation of Panthera tigris prevents me from fully endorsing your scenario LP. Perhaps you could insert "faux" or "synthetic" between "fresh" and "tiger"?
From the outside in, it looks like Murphy will probably be captain, but... with Doc out.. It might be worth considering someone like Curnow. The thing about Murphy is he appears to be a decent captain and he speaks well, but he might be just a touch too much of a nice guy. I don't know this for sure, but you want a captain that takes full authority in my view.
If Murphy was a superb captain, I would suggest it is crazy too change captains... but as he is an 'okay' one, I don't think we risk a lot by taking the captaincy and giving it to someone else.
As I said, I think they will go Murphy, but I really would not mind a look at an alternative, not 'just for changes sake', but to see if there is someone really ready to step in
The playing group and Bolton's coaching panel have determined that Murphy is our best option for captain two years in a row and I think that will be the case again.
I think that our leadership program has improved our leadership depth and the leadership of Cripps, Curnow, Simpson, Docherty and Murphy but I'm not sure that the Murphy has been overtaken by any of the others ... yet!
From the snippets we get from 'the Journey' and comments here and there, I believe that Bolton has taken a very different approach to leadership and the captaincy, but he is also a traditionalist. I can't see co-captains happening but I think Bolton won't hesitate to change skippers if someone puts their hand up. We may be surprised when that hand appears.
White was pathetic and should never wear the baggy green again.
I was astounded when he was picked. I thought that his time in Australian colours was long gone.
Picking Maxwell now would be admitting a mistake ... or perhaps Smith could say that Maxwell has taken his advice onboard and is now "training smarter".
I reckon Murphy will go around again as skipper. There was some discussion of transitioning or succession planning in one of the recent videos on the club website. I expect that a focus for Murphy this year will be preparing his successor. I wouldn't be surprised if the club follows the AFLW team's lead and appoints Murphy vice-captain in 2019, but a lot of water has to flow under the bridge before then.
I think that the two compulsory changes will be it, unless Simpson wants to step down. Docherty should keep his spot even though he won't be on the park.
I wonder if Kreuzer will step up; he seems to exert a bit of influence, in his quiet manner. If not, Wright may be a chance as he appears to be a natural leader on the field.
I think one of the younger players will be given an opportunity and Weitering seems likely. However, I wouldn't rule out Plowman.
It's a shame about Sam but her best seems to behind her. It's a bit like Alicia Molik in that she promised so much but couldn't deliver. Of course, Molik had a debilitating medical condition.
It's not all doom and gloom though; we seem to have some promising youngsters, Ash and Dasher are doing OK and Nick Kyrgios appears to have turned the corner ?
Reading the e-mail from the club I think there may be an element of setting Davey up as the young leader there for the long term. She's 22 while Arnell's 30 so she has the potential to be our captain for many years. The thing is, we really don't know about the longevity of the women compared to the men. I suspect many will play well into their thirties.
I suspect you're right about setting up Davey. There's a good article about our AFLW leadership in the Age today and one sentence that stood out was:
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Arnell said she was rapt to move into the mentoring role while Davey and Hosking are in their early 20s.
I don't want to derail this thread but I wonder if Marc Murphy will take on a similar role.
True, is everyone assuming that Arnell was deposed and didn't stand down!
We know that the skipper and vice-captains were appointed after an "exhaustive process" but we don't know whether that process involved Arnell standing down. I'm assuming that we started with a blank canvas and the "exhaustive process" led to the appointment of the three best leaders but I could be way off the mark.
Last season's skipper Lauren Arnell and Sarah Hosking will be joint vice-captains.
The article on the club website says that the appointments followed an exhaustive process and I think that we are now taking a much more analytical and performance-based approach to leadership.
I really like the idea of Lauren Arnell, our inaugural captain, being made vice-captain. I reckon she will be a great support to Brianna and it also recognises that her leadership attributes haven't evaporated.
Our new house required painting and new carpets and we got both done professionally.
The painting took two blokes 6 days (it's a big house) and I reckon that it would have taken me 3 times as long. I quite like painting but it just wasn't worth it because of the other demands on my time. If you decide to do the painting yourself, don't scrimp on paint, rollers and brushes; the best quality will produce the best result.
Carpet laying is best done by professionals but I don't have any experience with timber laminate or vinyl flooring. As Cookie suggests, do your research before deciding whether it's something you can take on yourself.
Fox Sports' Ben Waterworth and Riley Beveridge provide a more considered opinion:
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B: Lachie Plowman, Liam Jones, Ciaran Byrne
HB: Caleb Marchbank, Jacob Weitering, Kade Simpson
C: Ed Curnow, Patrick Cripps, Sam Petrevski-Seton
HF: Darcy Lang, Charlie Curnow, Dale Thomas
F: Matthew Wright, Levi Casboult, Harry McKay
FOLL: Matthew Kreuzer, Marc Murphy, Matthew Kennedy
I/C: Tom Williamson, Paddy Dow, Jack Silvagni, Zac Fisher
EMG: Jarrod Pickett, Sam Rowe, Jed Lamb
OTHERS: David Cuningham, Tom De Koning, Jarrod Garlett, Nick Graham, Patrick Kerr, Sam Kerridge, Matthew Lobbe, Harrison Macreadie, Aaron Mullett, Lochie O’Brien, Cam O’Shea, Andrew Phillips, Cam Polson, Angus Schumacher
ROOKIES: Jesse Glass-McCasker, Kym LeBois, Cillian McDaid, Matt Shaw, Alex Silvagni
LONG-TERM INJURIES: Sam Docherty
INITIALLY, it seemed tough for the Blues to find a replacement for Sam Docherty, who suffered an ACL injury in his first pre-season training session that will sideline him for the rest of 2018. However Carlton will have several ways in which it can fill Docherty’s void, following the acquisitions of Aaron Mullett (trade), Cameron O’Shea (pre-season draft), Angus Schumacher (national draft) and Jarrod Garlett (national draft). Then you’ve got second-year players Tom Williamson and Harrison Macreadie, while Ciaran Byrne is also capable of linking up with Lachie Plowman and Caleb Marchbank. Also, Carlton will be hoping recruits Matthew Kennedy and Darcy Lang can play Round 1, while Paddy Dow will also push for an early debut.
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