Worst Captain Ever

[MiloStedman]

I know this will almost seem like a leading question-many of you will already have shot off to say Maxwell-but who has an opinion on the worst caption of all time? Can be for any reason-whether they were a bad player, bad leader or whatever. Off you go

 

[Altum Volantes]

Brad Green circa 2011.

 

[Illinois Nazi]

Judd.

 

[themidlandmaster]

It's hard to go past Carey...

 

[Sttew]

Leigh Colbert at Geelong - never actually captained the side in H&A because of knee injury, and then walked out on club

 

[Vince12]

Shaun McManus....

 

[Vooligan]

Shaun McManus....

He didn't exactly have much to work with.

The over-hype from his cousin didn't help him either.

 

[Burzum]

Richie Vandenberg

 

[SUNSHINE22]

Leigh Colbert at Geelong - never actually captained the side in H&A because of knee injury, and then walked out on club

This! Bloody turncoat!!

 

[DG-Man]

Judd.

Strange choice. 2011 AFL Players Captain of the year. Premiership Captain. Taken Blues to three finals series after monster drought.

Never thought much of Hall or Whitnall.

 

[LongBomb]

Leigh Colbert at Geelong - never actually captained the side in H&A because of knee injury, and then walked out on club

Zero games, walks out on struggling club.
You can't beat this one.

 

[Vince12]

He didn't exactly have much to work with.

The over-hype from his cousin didn't help him either.

Maybe under different captaincy, stars such as Clive Waterhouse would have risen to the top

 

[DardySingh360]

Pav

 

[SydneyPhilly]

Paul Kelly. Never once saw him lead from the front.

In all seriousness though, I never understood why Barry Hall was made captain beyond possible marketting.

 

[Upgrayedd]

Cyril Rioli, Probably because he isn't even a captain


But honestly, What do we know what captains do behind the scene?

People like to Shit on Vandenberg for being a limited player and having much more talented guys around him like Crawford/Mitchell/Hodge/Croad a better choice for showing on-field brilliance (which people like to link with captaining a squad) However Vandenberg is a huge reason why Hawthorn went from Party boys who were ok between making a prelim final on sheer talent alone and finishing middle of the road for a while to a hugely professional player group and probably helped Hodge/Mitchell to achieve said standards when they were captain.

Who says Maxwell doesn't do the same?

 

[kaiserchief13]

A couple of contenders

 

[DG-Man]

Pav

Serious?

 

[Stone in sock]

Remember when Wayne Campbell asked to be traded then changed his mind at the last minute and then Richmond made him captain.

 

[brucetiki]

Nathan van Berlo easily

 

[Beary17]

It's hard to go past Carey...

An interesting choice. Premiership captain, but his blemish crippled the club and they've never recovered. Hard to go past as the worst, clearly there's been lesser players lead a club but who's had a bigger negative impact based on their actions?

 

[wal]

Ben Cousins.

 

[Burzum]

Cyril Rioli, Probably because he isn't even a captain


But honestly, What do we know what captains do behind the scene?

People like to Shit on Vandenberg for being a limited player and having much more talented guys around him like Crawford/Mitchell/Hodge/Croad a better choice for showing on-field brilliance (which people like to link with captaining a squad) However Vandenberg is a huge reason why Hawthorn went from Party boys who were ok between making a prelim final on sheer talent alone and finishing middle of the road for a while to a hugely professional player group and probably helped Hodge/Mitchell to achieve said standards when they were captain.

Who says Maxwell doesn't do the same?

I know this will almost seem like a leading question-many of you will already have shot off to say Maxwell-but who has an opinion on the worst caption of all time? Can be for any reason-whether they were a bad player, bad leader or whatever. Off you go

 

[neng]

Wouldn't be the absolute worst but Maxwell has to be up there.

Could have jeopardized his teams finals just because he thought it would be necessary to crack someone unprovoked.

Thug.

 

[i_need_a_pencil]

Cyril Rioli, Probably because he isn't even a captain


But honestly, What do we know what captains do behind the scene?

People like to Shit on Vandenberg for being a limited player and having much more talented guys around him like Crawford/Mitchell/Hodge/Croad a better choice for showing on-field brilliance (which people like to link with captaining a squad) However Vandenberg is a huge reason why Hawthorn went from Party boys who were ok between making a prelim final on sheer talent alone and finishing middle of the road for a while to a hugely professional player group and probably helped Hodge/Mitchell to achieve said standards when they were captain.

Who says Maxwell doesn't do the same?

Stop talking sense! This is a BF ragging contest don't you know.

Off-field leadership is very hard to gauge, and the majority of us wouldn't have any idea about it.

Colbert is up there though - one of the worst captaincy reigns, devoid of impact and leadership.

 

[Kram]

Ricky Ponting.