Whelan spoils a mark in the backline - "make him captain!"

Grimes hits a player on the lead on a wing - "make him captain!"

Beamer puts in a hard tackle - "make him captain!"

Sylvia crunches Nick Maxwell - "make him captain!"

Brock gets another clearance - "make him captain!"

Jamar ties his shoelaces correctly - "make him captain!"

Newton kicks a goal for Casey - ...nah, best leave that one.

In all seriousness, every time an MFC player does something worth some mild respect, do we need to anoint them captain?

Its tiresome and idiotic.

Brad Green plays roughly his 80th consecutive consistent match, showing the most leadership of any MFC player on the field, reaffirming that he is the best player on our list as well as our best leader - make him captain.

Green is doing things now that he didn't do at the beginning of his career, but he was never soft. Bruce was soft and still is soft, but Green was never soft.

I didn't say that Green was "soft", but what I do say is that he's stopped that, 'just getting cheap easy kicks stuff' & has lifted his workload & hardball gets & leadership qualities plus to top that off he's absolutely committing his body over the last 2 seasons.

Brad Green plays roughly his 80th consecutive consistent match, showing the most leadership of any MFC player on the field, reaffirming that he is the best player on our list as well as our best leader - make him captain.

Not only is Brad Green courageous, talented and inspirational, he is an exceptional young man with good manners, a beaming smile and patience. He is a fine role model for children, and a leader in every sense of the word. I would applaud a decision to make him captain after James McDonald retires.

Whelan spoils a mark in the backline - "make him captain!"

Grimes hits a player on the lead on a wing - "make him captain!"

Beamer puts in a hard tackle - "make him captain!"

Sylvia crunches Nick Maxwell - "make him captain!"

Brock gets another clearance - "make him captain!"

Jamar ties his shoelaces correctly - "make him captain!"

Newton kicks a goal for Casey - ...nah, best leave that one.

In all seriousness, every time an MFC player does something worth some mild respect, do we need to anoint them captain?

Its tiresome and idiotic.

You forgot Stefan Martin's great goal.

He and Davey are our only two elite or near-elite players. What a champion Greeny is. Six more games for 200. Legend.

Little off topic but i could not believe when Lloyd hooked Frawleys arm and dragged him down on top of him Frawley didnt get the free kick. The umpire clearly saw it as he told Lloyd thats why he didnt get the free. If frawley hooked lloyds arm like that there would of been a free paid. Resultant throw in was a goal too.

That's a great point miller time, and I missed the significance of it at the time.

Not only is Brad Green courageous, talented and inspirational, he is an exceptional young man with good manners, a beaming smile and patience. He is a fine role model for children, and a leader in every sense of the word. I would applaud a decision to make him captain after James McDonald retires.

as pointed out, he is one of if not our best on field act, and as you say probably our best off field individual.

i dont see how anyone can be given the captaincy next year apart from him. given form, role in the team and the direction we want the group in he is the logical fit. if mclean hadn't missed two years and suffered a decline in form this may be a topic for debate but for the time being green is the only reasonabe fit.

I also wish to pay tribute to Brad for a great act of courage. Certainly the equal of Reiwoldt and J. Brown's legendary great marks, except in Brad's case, he actually got clobbered(virtually tunnelled, anyway, by a guy who saw him coming and ducked....didn't want the ball as much).

Though Brad was running with the flight, he was the one who kept his eye on the ball. The on-coming Essendon player , in my opinion, infringed, because he elected to protect himself, and took Green out, legs first. Yes, too technical to be definitely defined as "dangerous play"(tunnelling"), but I reckon worth the mark being paid or a free to Green. And what an inspiring goal it would have resulted in!

This act of sheer guts was perpetrated by a guy who's already suffered a severe head injury this season! I'm full of admiration.

I'll admire Ablett, Franklin, Pavlich ,Fevola , Didak etc in the same way when I see them do it, but I haven't yet. With experience, it's possible to foresee and avoid such incidents. I have the same respect for Bartel, Reiwoldt , Rivers and J. Brown as I have been developing for Green.

He should be skipper for 2010. He's been setting the example for years now.