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Drugs Are Bad Mackay?
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It always has to link back to performance.I asked this a while ago in the larger thread and was ridiculed by one the usual suspects. But now that this decision has been made and the same usual suspects are rolling in to justify it, the question is becoming less absurd. At least at the afc in regards to captain vb.
Will we be the first afl club to have a captain that is not even our primary list. Vb will be able to captain into his 50's as a mature aged rookie. Each week to play we can just send out an acting captain for the on-field portion of the role and vb can continue to do the marvellous work behind the scenes. By natural extension, does the captain of the club even need to be an elite footballer or sportsperson at all.
My purpose was to jar some of this rock-solid belief that most of what a captain does isn't represented on the field by extending it to the patently absurd. At least I thought it was absurd, but our club is getting closer and given your statement above, you and quite a few others will be along for the cutting-edge ride.
Good leadership must equal good performances from the team.
Good training standard must equal good performances from the individual.
If the performance of the team and individuals are poor and there is no change, it completely undermines and undervalues the importance of leadership and training.
For whatever reason, the link to performance doesn't seem to be there at the club. They don't make that connection. We instead value things that aren't important. Or, more accurately, we don't value things that impact results.