New beginning, new captain.

[Nymzee]

Coleman is a coward.

 

[Ruairi77]

I reckon it'll be Coleman for at least one more season.
I'm not sure he's suitable on the pitch but I'd say he's a great leader off the pitch.
He's also a connection all the way back to Moyes.
I also reckon he'll only play about 30% of the games and you'll see Carlo try out a few others over the season to establish a new club captain for next season.
If Richarlisons English keeps improving it could well be used as a bargaining chip to keep him at the club next season.

 

[brieverton]

I don't think it matters as much as it used to but we have badly lacked on-field leadership and big personalities, hopefully that will change.

Coleman has had his day in the role, and his post-defeat rallying calls feel a bit token now, clearly few of his team mates were listening.

We should go left-field and give it to Richarlison, I think he would genuinely feel honoured by it and he is the fulcrum of the team anyway, he is as good a choice as any.

Holgate would be the other choice.

It's frankly insulting to see Sigurdsson get the armband, even once more is too much.

 

[Lord Byron]

In Carlo Ancelloti’s book “Quiet Leadership“ he talks about two types of leaders on the pitch. Personality leaders and technical leaders. He uses Ibrahimovic and John Terry as examples of big personality leaders and Franco Baresi or Ronaldo as technical leaders. In our team the personality leaders would be Coleman (but will he be a regular) and Allan (will language be a problem and he’s new to the team?). Technical leaders would be James and Rich. Personally, I think CA would want a strong personality to be captain. I would choose Allan if his English was good, if not I would go for Holgate or Coleman.

 

[Cameron Manning]

Whoever is the best coin tosser.

Additional points if they can hold a pennant without dropping it.

Not Pickford then...

“ Whoever is the best con tosser” well there would be a few in the running for that, we’ve got plenty of tossers”

 

[John from Bootle]

Keep Coleman as captain. Make Holgate vice captain...

 

[tadpole]

Does this really matter? We need leadership on the pitch but surely this should come from all players as a sense of responsibility? Certainly the older players

Humour us

 

[Nymzee]

Keep Coleman as captain. Make Holgate vice captain...

Coleman can be club captain but have some team captains since I want him parked on that bench.

 

[Kure]

YERRY MINA

 

[MikeH72]

Someone who's not afraid to stand up for the lads on the field.

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Lol at Howard for that goal.

 

[John from Bootle]

Coleman can be club captain but have some team captains since I want him parked on that bench.

Basically, yeah. An easing in of young Mason.

 

[Marius57]

Digne for me. I'd be surprised if Coleman is our first choice RB, he may start there but I think we will sign someone and swap them out fairly quickly. And we need the captain to be one of the first names on the team sheet.

I dont think Holgate is quite ready yet.

 

[john jako]

Delph. Title winning maestro who will batter the park end when they boo.

 

[efcjames]

Tarashaj

 

[Hangleton]

Ratcliffe talked about being made captain by Howard at age 23 in that psychology interview. Centre Half suits captaincy. In Italy they tend to (or at least used to) give it to the oldest player in the team - out of respect.