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Cripps hasn't enough AFL experience in my opinion and hasn't yet delivered to his full potential.

Cripps is an on-field 'follow me' type leader.

Docherty is a 24/7 type leader.

Cripps lets his hair down a bit during media interviews and what not.
Docherty is always in full business mode. More serious.

I guess it depends on what the club prefers its leader to be.

If Docherty gets it over Cripps it will only be a matter of time before its another Mitchell/Hodge situation especially if we are not doing well.......the media/supporters will see Cripps as the spiritual on field leader like Hodge was and want the change.....

If Docherty gets it over Cripps it will only be a matter of time before its another Mitchell/Hodge situation especially if we are not doing well.......the media/supporters will see Cripps as the spiritual on field leader like Hodge was and want the change.....

Same could have been said of Kernahan and Carey when they were given the job.

Perhaps the idea is not to think 'either/or' but rather, 'and...'

Don't agree.

Firstly I believe Kernahan was already a premiership player in SA before he entered the AFL, was the leading goalkicker multiple years, had won at least two club B&Fs, as well as a league best for the GF, he was at the top of his game when he arrived and if I recall he may have even captained his state.

Carey was already arguably the leagues best when he was named captain, he was named AA Captain the same year, I don't think he improved much after getting the job and it would have been scary if he did!

Cripps isn't at his peak yet, and has much to learn, he is not even regularly getting the basics right, and he is miles away from the level Carey or Kernahan were at, but he'll get there!

Personally, i think thats a cop out.

A decision that is made when someone can't make up their mind. Too afraid to not get it right, so they automatically get it wrong.

...but that a personal opinion.

Wasn't it Einstein who said that the mark of real intelligence is the ability to hold two different/opposing views in your head at the same time without feeling compelled to chose one over the other (Einstein updated the original F Scott Fitzgerald quote). Sometimes the smartest thing to do is think laterally, or different to the status quo... sometimes the toughest thing to do is be different. In 1964 we did the unimaginable and hired a playter from another club to be our captain/coach... who knows what our leadership group will look like in 2019, 3 Captains, or 1... doesn't matter, as long as we do what is best for the club and takes full advantage of the talents available. But status quo thinking is for the unimaginative (and deeply conservative types...  )

Wasn't it Einstein who said that the mark of real intelligence is the ability to hold two different/opposing views in your head at the same time without feeling compelled to chose one over the other (Einstein updated the original F Scott Fitzgerald quote). Sometimes the smartest thing to do is think laterally, or different to the status quo... sometimes the toughest thing to do is be different. In 1964 we did the unimaginable and hired a playter from another club to be our captain/coach... who knows what our leadership group will look like in 2019, 3 Captains, or 1... doesn't matter, as long as we do what is best for the club and takes full advantage of the talents available. But status quo thinking is for the unimaginative (and deeply conservative types...  )

BTW, has a team ever won a flag with dual captains? Not sure, but don't think so.