Yeah, it's nothing against Ken, who is a good enough player, but there seems nothing about him that says captain.
There's not really a player on this side though that you'd be confident will be playing 1st grade at the end of this year. So how you pick a captain out of this group is tough. You'd maybe go luciano but he's leaving, maybe Twal, but he's a sort of bench rotation type player, not the best. The only player who looks any good is Hastings, and he's only been at the club for 5 minutes.
But even with the lack of options, you don't go making it worse by naming a whole bunch of average players to be captain. You get embarrassing situations like today, when one captain drops the bomb to set the tone for the game, another captain has an absolutely atrocious kicking game to kill momentum every time and our last captain gets himself sin binned and directionlessly running around all game.
This team has no identity or character to build upon. It starts with our lack of leadership and collective indifference. Joe O is a perfect example. He's fast, strong and got great skills, and his performances have been okay, but there's just no mongrel there, no great competitiveness or desperation. He's not going to ever do more than just get through his work.
The worst part about today was our defense. In every single tackle we were driven backwards. That's not down to possession or anything like that, it was happening from the first minute, it's attitude. In the trial against the roosters and the first half against Melbourne, and even the trial against Manly, I was actually surprised at how physically competitive we were. But it wasn't even close today.
