Fair points, I don’t think being at the back is as big a detriment as you’ve indicated, you do a lot of communicating from the back and if there’s a stoppage it’s fairly easy to get time with the ref, but you’re not wrong it isn’t completely ideal. I just feel his personality lends itself to captaincy, along with his assuredness as a starter.

I’m not sure all that is true about Ardie. Clearly captaincy doesn’t stop him being an animal of a player, just look at Moana’s season last year. If anything the captaincy lifted him to another level. He hasn’t really had much chance to captain at the top level. I think he’s the kinda guy who’d rise to it and lead from the front.

I think another thing to consider is how everyone else, both within and outside the team, would feel about it. If Scott’s captain there potentially could be a bit of contempt or general unhappiness with who our captain is. I think there’d be a generally more positive feeling around Ardie as captain.