The appointment of co-captains, just like the rediculous "give 'em anything they want so long as we get all the kiddies in the one place all the time", was done to make things "easier"; nothing to do with making things "better" but all to do with making things easy - in other words, to take the pressure off the players and relieve them of as much responsibility as possible so if things go wrong or get really, really hard, they have a safe sanctuary to hide in.
This is why we are disintegrating as a club. No-one makes hard decisions anymore; not in the board room, not in the non-tolerance of mistakes by players, not at the selection table and this non-action is reflected by the way we are playing.
There was a time when we as supporters did not dare question what the club and the coach did because they knew exactly what was right and what was wrong and in keeping with the Port Adelaide way where nothing but the absolute best was acceptable, where regardless of what the spivs and pretentious gits where doing elsewhere, it had no influence on what we knew was the proper way of doing things. That's what tradition and culture means - retaining the things that made us great and not falling for the short sighted, cutting corners crap that others may think is clever.
It is now the case that the club has turned it's back on the basic fundamentals that made us strong and accepts pie-in-the-sky "new age" type mythology and ridicules those of us, the vast majority of us, who know what the club is doing is just plain wrong.
