Maybe I am looking at this a different way, but why is it that every time some player is mentioned as being important and inspirational, we all want to throw the captaincy at them?
First of all, if the criteria is importance to the team and inspirational deeds on the field, we would have 4-5 Wallaby co-captains.
Razzle dazzle does not a captain make. In most cases, the best leaders are not show boats, or even the best players on the park. They are the glue holding it all together. They are the people that have the steely resolve and the will to pull his team-mates with him by leading from the front when times are tough.
They allow the stars to shine, but are also able to bring the stars back into the team dynamic with a glare or a word when they wander too far from the reservation.And even if all the above is wrong, the history of sports is littered with super-stars who wilted under the burden of the captaincy.
To bring this all back on topic with regards to TPN; you want to take a good player with a history of injury and no previous high level captaincy training and make them the focus point of our national team in a RWC year?
Fucking lunacy.
