Player Watch Pick #5 (2018) - Connor Rozee (AFL Captain)

[Willsy10]

Not letting that white noise get to you. Tom would be proud.

Yeah, I’m not sure if I’m exactly across what this all means but yeah no white noise worries here.


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[Rendaw]

He is the type of player you lock up long term and its not exactly like the captain bar is very high so I see an improvement there

 

[davesnothere]

Rozee is an absolute thoroughbred.

Not a club in the AFL that wouldn't match our offer.

Maybe not my first choice as captain and that's just an experience thing but I'd back him in if that's the deal.

I've no doubt we would have offered Butters the same deal without the captaincy but Butters knocked it back.

 

[PowerLil]

Hinkley pr is undefeated

It's embarrassing.

 

[gbear]

Hope it is a dual announcement. Contract and captaincy.

 

[chiwigi]

Really excited with him as captain and no mention of co- captains.
But why does every single thread have to be ruined by Stinkley comments?
Can’t we just be happy for once?

That’s what people are wondering. Why does the club and its peons have to add him to every good news announcement.

 

[TeeKray]

I'm not a fan of the captaincy thing. They're trying to mould him and Butters into leadership roles which they probably aren't naturally suited to. I can only see downside risk to that - let's face it, they're hardly going to become better players with those roles simply because they're already close to maximum output.

I do acknowledge though that the cupboard is extremely bare on the leadership front and that the only other option is a guy who is a short time removed from being suspended for hosting a night of debauchery with Lil Pisty at the height of covid.

 

[El Zorro]

I'm not a fan of the captaincy thing. They're trying to mould him and Butters into leadership roles which they probably aren't naturally suited to. I can only see downside risk to that - let's face it, they're hardly going to become better players with those roles simply because they're already close to maximum output.

I do acknowledge though that the cupboard is extremely bare on the leadership front and that the only other option is a guy who is a short time removed from being suspended for hosting a night of debauchery with Lil Pisty at the height of covid.

I think Rozee will be a more skilled version of Boak as captain. Good looks, speaks OK, good boy vibes, etc.

 

[PAFC66]

If we offered him 5 years (as an example), the list managers of 17 other clubs would be on the phone to Connor’s management with 8 year offers. It’s an absolute no brainer.

I get the criticism of long term deals industry wide. But it’s the norm for star players now.

You're probably right

 

[PAFC66]

Lance Franklin and Alistair lynch both worked.

And of all the current long term contracts most of them seem to be working out fine: Petracca, Martin, Lynch, Whitfield, Coniglio, Greene, etc

Tom Boyd’s didn’t work out but then again he probably should’ve won a norm smith.

Grundy’s is the only big one that I can think of that was a 100% fail.


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Sydney never won a flag with Franklin.. we all assumed they'd win plenty when he signed. I agree they won out in other ways though $

 

[PAFC66]

Look I'm just ecstatic Tom Jonas is gone and no longer captain. We can throw him in the Dom basket.

 

[TeeKray]

Sydney never won a flag with Franklin.. we all assumed they'd win plenty when he signed. I agree they won out in other ways though $

3 grand finals. That's as good as a couple of flags on non Victorian standards.

 

[RossFC]

8 year deal confirmed and new captain.

Captain Rozee commits to Port for eight more

Port Adelaide star Connor Rozee has been appointed club captain, while also putting pen to paper on an eight-year contract extension.

www.portadelaidefc.com.au

 

[RossFC]

 

[Doctor Feel]

It's well past the point I care about what Rozee and Butters want.

 

[Doctor Feel]

CA1N

 

[RossFC]

 

[simba_]

CA1N CORN3S

for real this is exciting, it's good to feel something positive. like others have said every club in the league would've offered this deal to get Rozee. and what a leadership group: "Fellow midfielder Zak Butters

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has been appointed vice-captain, while Sam Powell-Pepper

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and Willem Drew

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form part of the broader leadership group."

 

[port_adelaide_1870]

Good decision, don’t think he will ever be the Selwood or Voss type leader but can see him as a Pendlebury/Fyfe captain.

Either way glad they gave it to the kids rather than Ollie

 

[manureid]

I wonder if Rozee and Butters will cop the same shit Travis does for hitching themselves to the failed coach?

 

[Doctor Feel]

I wonder if Rozee and Butters will cop the same s**t Travis does for hitching themselves to the failed coach?

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Yes

 

[TazD]

Imagine if he has a worse year than his predecessor.

 

[Bump Bailey]

A conservative choice for a conservative club.

He’s the homegrown poster boy with the big long-term contract, so there’s marketing value in him having the captaincy alongside that as well.

Love Connor, but Butters was the most obvious “next captain in-line” in our AFL history for mine. An absolute lay-down misere.


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[JimmyBC]

Connor does visibly hate losing & calls out garbage efforts from older players so he has some good traits for a Captain.

The contract is fine with me he's the best player at the club by a street IMO.

 

[Portmagpies36]

The best leadership group we have had since the early 2000’s, how anyone can say they are not leaders when they haven’t been given a chance is just looking for negatives.
Thank God we have given Jonas DBJ and the like the flick.