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The Wellingham incident was embarrassing because he ended up getting 3 weeks when 5 was lenient but still, the Hodge and the Wellingham incident against Murphy and Simmo were very, very different.

I did a little experiment for myself, I went thru our entire playing list and had a good hard look at who I would choose as captain if I could wave my magical fairy wand and sprinkle some fairy dust (minds out if gutter please!!), I really could not find anyone. So as much as people are banging on about Murphy being a questionable captain, who else would you choose to step in right now?

History tells us that great players careers have been hampered or held back by being made captain. The additional responsibility, the burden and the expectation simply bogs them down and they just cant be themselves because they are simply not being themselves. Does the club announce that Murphy is stepping down because he cant cope because that is a huge slap in the face no matter which way you look at it.

I can only speak personally here from my own experience as being a manager where I had to lead 27 people in a medium size company.. I had some pretty basic philosophies that I always followed. I always set the expectation and foundation of what I expected from everyone else. I was never late for work, I never took sickies. No job was to lowly for me to do, I remember a few times jumping inside the large bin skip hosing it down and brushing it down from all the mold and stuff that would be rotting inside, my god that stunk!  I would always assist others and help them, I was never afraid to take chance and put my neck on the line for others to help them out whether it was for work or things outside of work. I relished getting my hands dirty. I told people clearly and concisely when they were performing well/poorly, I don't believe in grey areas, things are black and white for me. If i could do it then i expected everyone else to do it, its simple really.

This is what i expect of the captain, he should be running the hardest, being the loudest, crunching the hardest, he should be expectation and foundation of the rest of the team, leading by example, because if our captain is doing by golly the rest of the team should be bloody well do it also.

http://www.heraldsun.com.au/sport/afl/marc-murphy-will-miss-another-carlton-nab-challenge-game-with-injury-mick-malthouse-returns/story-fni5f5nx-1227256779041

To be fair murphy attempting to tackle Griffiths was never going to end well.  im not saying smaller blokes cant tacjle big blokes but Maric ragdolled Woid once or twice and the difference between them isn't as drastic.

TBF, it's all about intent, and a captain's job is to lead the way with these kinds of things. It was despicable effort IMO. Had he clung on for dear life and just been shrugged off in the end you could accept that but what he did was the same boloney that separated him from being a great player and a champion footballer in the past.

We seen when he is fit his intent is fine, he is almost certainly playing injured.

LP's diagnosis is OP.

By Murphy's standards;

 - Stuff all lateral movement.
 - Low agility.
 - No acceleration.
 - No speed.
 - No power.
 - Timid in traffic.

This bloke is playing in pain.

I suspect the only reason he was out there is because the club is bullsh1tt1ng about the current state of the injury list and we have stuff all other options on the table!

Simpson or Carrazzo should have been Captain...Murphy fit or not isnt up to it....
The other alternative is the good ordinary player way ie Maxwell, Harley... when you pick Mr average who gets on with everyone, has some media savvy
and isnt aligned to any factions or clicky groups within your list...Sam Rowe would be that type of player...

Not sure the club and Mick have the gonads to say they got it wrong though...

Not sure who would actually take responsibility for that decision.

I can't help but think the choice of Murphy was more of a club/marketing decision rather than a coach driven decision. Given Malthouse was the one who made Worsfold and Maxwell captains previously. Murphy does fit the mould.

It was a player decision but Mick made comments around needing his endorsement