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Interesting (perhaps) that Hammond is still captain even though he's not guaranteed a starting place these days.

 

There's a certain train of thought that points to having one of the 'automatic choice' players as captain. Hey no. No great shakes I guess.

 

I thought that KD remains club captain, but Pardew decided that he wouldn't be captain on the pitch and that has continued. I'm not sure how important the captaincy is. Fonte seems to do alright at it, Richardson was captain at Leeds and there are a lot of other leaders on the pitch; when things need saying Lambert and Lallana don't hold back at expressing their opinions too. Can't see Jos and Fox as shrinking violets either.

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I remember reading somewhere that it was Richardson. Perhaps when he was injured we had a back up back up outfield goalie

 

Told you the other day, Morgan's dad was a pretty handy keeper,probably decent League 2 standard at worst and Morgan probably

knows what keeping is about.It's a football family, his Mum played for a pretty decent ladies side as well

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I thought that KD remains club captain, but Pardew decided that he wouldn't be captain on the pitch and that has continued. I'm not sure how important the captaincy is. Fonte seems to do alright at it, Richardson was captain at Leeds and there are a lot of other leaders on the pitch; when things need saying Lambert and Lallana don't hold back at expressing their opinions too. Can't see Jos and Fox as shrinking violets either.

 

I think that attitude is critical to success. Not just having one captain on the pitch, but many, all of whom are happy to shout, direct, lead, encourage, praise, support and push their teammates as it's needed. I think we have plenty of people in the squad capable of this, so who the armband goes to isn't as important.

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Better than a clean sheet? :-s

 

That was more by luck than judgement. My original statement was more about his obvious lack of goal keeping skill rather than the result on the day, and hoping that we now have an outfield player with some goal keeping aptitude.

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