Gipsy Danger

I have no doubt he is a ripping bloke, speaks well, loves the club and wants the best for the MFC, but I'm speaking as a footballer myself. I have never really seen him throw his over the footy just to make sure he made a contest of it, pick up a bloke off the ground and get him going again. I haven't seen him drag everyone over when they were down and really get them to lift. This club needs a leader on the ground who wont put up with the [censored] that has been dished up for the last 5 years and will go out of his way to make everyone around him better. We need a bloke that will do something extraordinary and look back at the others and say that's how we want to do it. That is the kind of bloke players want at front. Chris Dawes just doesn't seem like that bloke.

I really don't see why Dawes name gets thrown up as a leadership candidate. The only thing that ever really lifted him above anyone else is that he knew what success looked like coming from a dominate club of the competition. But he was not held in a leadership regard there either. When has he ever taken the game on and said "Come on boys, follow me!"? The closest thing we have to that has to be Nathan Jones. He is still not the ideal captain. By that I mean he is not the leader on men to the calibre of a Nick Riewoldt, Jonathan Brown Joel Selwood but is going to have to do until the next bloke is actually ready. We all know that Jack Viney will be that man but until he is a man lets not throw that burden on him, look what that did to Trengove. It is time though that more then one bloke stood up to be counted as a leader. Garland tried last year and good on him. But where was Frawley? Dunn? Jamar? Watts? The senior blokes that went missing when the club needed someone to lead them on. Watts is the most disappointing for my mind as he actually sat there and complained last year that the club had no real leaders rather then taking it on and having a crack himself. If Jones and Grimes are the only blokes at this stage ready and able. Give them the job