God forbid any of you lot get interviewed and then slayed for the way you handled it.
Some people just aren't that great in the media. Farah made his enemies and wouldn't stop rubbing his chin with his thumb during pressers. Brooks is fair dinkum hopeless. Lawrence is very polished and avoids controversial comments, but lots of supports hate him because he isn't the player he used to be.
Woods is… same he has always been. Low key, bad hair, careful about what he says and mostly saying insignificant things. He has always avoided answering difficult questions, JT intercepted those at pressers.
I don't know what people want from the fellow, they want this front-foot eloquence, they want him to talk up the club and the coach and the roster and the gameplan, say insightful and strong things, commit himself career-wise with words.
Words in the media are meaningless. If Woods looked you in the eye and committed to something, that's different, but the media is just a soup of noise and half-truths. Who really cares what he says or does not say on a panel show or in front of a mike at training.
Sure maybe you want a captain who is a better, more convincing speaker. That's likely to end up having absolutely zero impact on on-field performance, football games are not won in front of a microphone, and then if the results don't come people start to shoot down the eloquent speakers for their "spin".
I'd also like to hear who the better captain at the club is. Rowdy? Half the fans want him cut. Ballin? Hardly played a minute of footy. It's thin ranks otherwise folks... Tedesco? Elijah Taylor? ET is still a new guy, not even one full season.
