2025 Leadership Group

[Redline]

One or two too many in my opinion but much better than last year.

I think you should just have three official leaders. Other can take on unofficial roles.

Guys like Crouch, Laird and Tex aren't in the leadership group but we will still role them out to the media after a bad loss.

 

[DJ75]

Official group is

Dawson
O'Brien
Keays
Neal-Bullen
Fogarty

Crows announce 2025 leaders

The leaders were nominated by their teammates in consultation with coaches

www.afc.com.au

It does look a little unbalanced.
Mid
Mid
Fwd
Fwd
Fwd

So no leaders in defence? I know it's a young group, but surely Hinge or Max (maybe too quiet?) could be considered.
Unless we play Dawson across half back more (although the games so far this year don't look like it).

In the end it's a pretty good group really.

 

[DJ75]

One or two too many in my opinion but much better than last year.

I think you should just have three official leaders. Other can take on unofficial roles.

Guys like Crouch, Laird and Tex aren't in the leadership group but we will still role them out to the media after a bad loss.

Laird is absolutely NOT a leader. His on field tantrums and abuse of younger players when he doesn't get the pad his stats are not ok.

 

[FR0GGY]

Dawson captain
Keays
ANB
ROB
Fog

 

[Redline]

Laird is absolutely NOT a leader. His on field tantrums and abuse of younger players when he doesn't get the pad his stats are not ok.

Not suggesting he is, I wouldn’t even have him in the best 22 but my point is we still get him to do plenty of media. You only need 3 leaders (Dawson, ANB and Fog) and everyone picks up things without an official title.

 

[Velvet George]

Official group is

Dawson
O'Brien
Keays
Neal-Bullen
Fogarty

Crows announce 2025 leaders

The leaders were nominated by their teammates in consultation with coaches

www.afc.com.au

A lot better, but ROB would want to pull his finger out, he was dropped in 2024

 

[Vader]

Keeping ROB in the team shows what a leader he is in every aspect of the club except performance on field. I think he is very highly respected by the young kids who learn a lot from him.

He's not the first leader to be under pressure for his spot though.

I wouldn't have selected him, I think off field leaders can still be off field leaders without the title, but clearly I'm old school - there's a lot more to it than there use to be.

As long as we win I'm fine with it.

All good, except that ROB is not under pressure for his spot.

 

[Drugs Are Bad Mackay?]

I'd only make one very glaring change out of that so I guess 80% hit rate is alright.

that 20% is really stinky though

If we get 80% of our coaching/selection calls right this year we'll play finals

 

[Drugs Are Bad Mackay?]

All good, except that ROB is not under pressure for his spot.

Obviously he is under some pressure because he was dropped last year and that was with an inferior player to McAndrew in the reserves

 

[spenze]

All good, except that ROB is not under pressure for his spot.

To be fair, even with no viable replacement, we dropped him last year.

 

[Velvet George]

All good, except that ROB is not under pressure for his spot.

Lol, he was dropped last year and we’ve brought in a bloke who can ruck. Plays poorly again and he will be dropped quicker this time.

 

[spenze]

If we get 80% of our coaching/selection calls right this year we'll play finals

 

[Velvet George]

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Needs a vomit emoji

 

[ams4crows]

At least the visual looks good

 

[Samcro24]

At least the visual looks good

ROB throws off the balance

 

[cleanhands]

ROB throws off the balance

Have Fog and Ben been crawling around in mud

 

[WetCrow1991]

Laird is absolutely NOT a leader. His on field tantrums and abuse of younger players when he doesn't get the pad his stats are not ok.

Laird looked disappointed when Berry kicked the winner against Carlton last year.

 

[Samcro24]

Have Fog and Ben been crawling around in mud

Yep
ANB is bleeding from the knee

 

[BRL121]

ROB throws off the balance

Yeah. If he swapped with Dawson, the balance would be perfect.

 

[BRL121]

Weren't there supposed to be two new faces in the group?

 

[Samcro24]

Yeah. If he swapped with Dawson, the balance would be perfect.

Captain ROB!

 

[WetCrow1991]

Pretty happy with this group.

 

[Carn The Texan]

I think Nick Murray is enough of a leader down back to have been at least considered, he's 25 this year and leaves it all on the field with his efforts. Also does a fair bit of vocal direction down back.

 

[Scorpus]

Weren't there supposed to be two new faces in the group?

Yeah

Neal and Bullen

 

[spenze]

Have Fog and Ben been crawling around in mud

Everyone has mud and dirt on them, except O'Brien, rarely needs to wash his uniform that guy