Breaking News Who’s captain...... Mark Oxley

[Goughy]

Any chance of Cox leading from the front?

 

[Bratislava Blue]

Cokers performances as captain do not warrant him given the armband for this season. He is not a leader and I believe the added responsibility impacted these performances.

It should be someone who will play the majority of the games, barring injury, not have a injury record that would influence this and finally be a leader on the park. I think Simon Cox ticks these boxes.

 

[Bratislava Blue]

Coker all day

Never!

 

[Bratislava Blue]

Coker captain on the pitch with White Club Captain

Coker no!.. White as Club Captain, why not..

 

[Napster]

With the current squad I am not sure that we can say any of the players are a 100% starter, can we? And that's not a bad situation to have I would say.

well Oxley is a definite starter as is Coker.

 

[Chrisb]

John White for me - agree that I don't think there are any 100% starters except probably Oxley.

 

[Rattus Norvegicus]

well Oxley is a definite starter as is Coker.

Fine ............ and I know that this is rather negative but Oxley may pick up an injury in pre-season on the rock hard ground and Cokes was out last season due to injury in a friendly I think ............ so I still stick with the view that it is too early to say.

 

[MisterStubbs]

Michael Turner for me, bundles of experience at the top level and is out and out our best defender when fit.

 

[lesliegilkes40]

Michael Turner for me, bundles of experience at the top level and is out and out our best defender when fit.

Turner also

 

[lesliegilkes40]

I think Turner or White

 

[Zeuss]

Captaincy in football cf cricket! is not really as important as so many people try to make out.
That said,it should really be a commanding,astute central defender((think Terry,Adams,Moore...).For us next season,Ferdinand may not be playing that much,White shouldn’t be,so the choice must be Turner.

 

[Rattus Norvegicus]

For us next season, Ferdinand may not be playing that much, White shouldn’t be, so the choice must be Turner.

Are you able to expand on why White "shouldn't be". At the end of last season we won games 4-0, 3-0, 2-0 and then drew 0-0 - all with White having the arm-band.

 

[Ozzer]

Too early to say. Let’s see how things pan out after the friendlies. Apart from existing players, others could be in with a shout. Hyam has had injury problems but he has also captained Ipswich previously.

 

[Zeuss]

Are you able to expand on why White "shouldn't be". At the end of last season we won games 4-0, 3-0, 2-0 and then drew 0-0 - all with White having the arm-band.

Thank you! You underline my point perfectly:that the captaincy in football is largely irrelevant.
It was great that we could do so well despite the fact that it was the substandard centre-half who for non-footballing reasons(nice bloke!) had a band round his arm.

 

[RHB]

Thank you! You underline my point perfectly:that the captaincy in football is largely irrelevant.
It was great that we could do so well despite the fact that it was the substandard centre-half who for non-footballing reasons(nice bloke!) had a band round his arm.

Which makes that your opinion only and not one necessarily shared by others, including me.

 

[Rattus Norvegicus]

Which makes that your opinion only and not one necessarily shared by others, including me.

Nor me - I think that saying White is "sub-standard" is not a balanced and fair reflection.

 

[tommy tucker]

if picked Jonn white all day long

 

[Bearded Shrimper]

I'm going to have to jump on this one too. John White has made nearly 450 career appearances and played very well last season and has repeatedly proved doubters wrong. There's a reason managers keep picking him - he's a class act

 

[Yorkshire Blue]

I think we can safely say it’s not Anton

 

[OldBlueLady]

Are you able to expand on why White "shouldn't be". At the end of last season we won games 4-0, 3-0, 2-0 and then drew 0-0 - all with White having the arm-band.

Zuess has a massive anti John White agenda, I have no idea why.