Wests Tigers appoint five new captains for 2022 season

[pt73]

‘They’ve all got their strengths’: Maguire appoints five co-captains for Tigers

Michael Maguire has gone back to the model introduced by Ivan Cleary several years ago by naming five co-captains for the upcoming season.

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Wests Tigers have gone back to the future by naming five captains.

The Tigers on Tuesday announced James Tamou would be joined by Adam Doueihi, Luke Brooks, Ken Maumalo and new recruit Tyrone Peachey in their leadership group.

Tamou told the Herald on the weekend he was happy to walk away from the top job and let somebody younger and who will be at the club longer take the reins.
Coach Michael Maguire opted for the same model used by former coach Ivan Cleary when he was at the club and appointed Benji Marshall, Elijah Taylor, Chris Lawrence, Russell Packer and Josh Reynolds to the top role.

The Tigers have used six different skippers in the past five seasons. The new leaders were voted for by the players during a recent training camp on the Central Coast.

Most assumed Doueihi would be given the nod, given he is the best player at the club and already gone public with his hopes of one day captaining the club. The only issue with Doueihi is he will not return until midway through the year because of a knee injury.

The Tigers announcement comes a day after Newcastle confirmed Jayden Brailey and Kalyn Ponga would share the captaincy at the Knights.

Tigers CEO Justin Pascoe said: “On behalf of everyone at Wests Tigers, I would like to congratulate the five players on their appointment to the club’s leadership group ahead of the 2022 season.

“It’s great to have a group that consist of players in different stages of their careers, and I look forward to working closely with this group over the coming year.”

 

[Woodsie]

Not having that one player who by their character and performance makes themselves a standout choice as Captain and team leader is a sad and grave problem.

 

[SeaEagleRock8]

The only player guaranteed a spot in the team can't play because he's injured.
The idea of a leadership group is OK - but 6 actual captains?
And Maumalo? He's a winger, and he's only been there since round 15 last year!

 

[voicefromthehill]

 

[Eagle 1]

The only player guaranteed a spot in the team can't play because he's injured.
The idea of a leadership group is OK - but 6 actual captains?
And Maumalo? He's a winger, and he's only been there since round 15 last year!

Got a feeling the players thought this one up, having 6 captains, shares out the abuse load they will all eventually cop of Madge...lol.

 

[pt73]

Not having that one player who by their character and performance makes themselves a standout choice as Captain and team leader is a sad and grave problem.

How will they ever make a decision ?

Majority wins, rock-paper-scissors or something else.

Total joke anyway.

 

[47MVEagle]

Most assumed Doueihi would be given the nod, given he is the best player at the club

Wow LOL

I wonder how the rest of their squad feel about such a throwaway comment?

 

[47MVEagle]

Not having that one player who by their character and performance makes themselves a standout choice as Captain and team leader is a sad and grave problem.

You'd think Brooks would have been going for the sole captaincy by now but the fact he hasn't is quite telling of his self belief IMO.

 

[47MVEagle]

Got a feeling the players thought this one up, having 6 captains, shares out the abuse load they will all eventually cop of Madge...lol.

They should name every player in their team list every Tuesday as captain hehehe

 

[SeaEagleRock8]

On the credit side, I guess they are all allowed to approach the ref to argue.

 

[ALinda]

The idea of a leadership group is OK - but 6 actual captains?
And Maumalo? He's a winger, and he's only been there since round 15 last year!

And Peachey, a utility, never been a captain and only just arrived!

6 actual captains is a joke. If they wanted to improve themselves and took the captain's role seriously, they'd have 2 at the most.

 

[Eagle 1]

And Peachey, a utility, never been a captain and only just arrived!

6 actual captains is a joke. If they wanted to improve themselves and took the captain's role seriously, they'd have 2 at the most.

wonder how many WT captains are going to be dropped during the course of the season, and being the Tig-pies you just know it's going to happen ..lol. 6 just doesn't make any sense at all...

 

[Eagle thru 'n' thru]

I'd have Alex Twal as co-captain with Adam Douiehi

 

[Will on the hill]

Going off last year Doueihi is the clear stand out captain. These guys have been named to find out who wants to step up and be the 2IC. Glad we have more than 1 player who is willing to own the result and drag the team towards victory.

 

[voicefromthehill]

Every penalty against the TigPies

 

[lsz]

The tigers seemed to have taken the whole "leadership group" approach and translated it into being captains. Pretty sure that is not how it works

 

[Brookie Bob]

Let's make everybody captain................then no-one is 'captain'.........

 

[Will on the hill]

If you name 17 captains does that give everyone the right to have words with the ref? Could be a tactic.

 

[Shoe1]

They’ve got 2 coaches so may as well have multiple captains. They are also 2 clubs and have 4 home grounds.

 

[HK_Eagle]

I hear they’ve given up the annual club best & fairest award and gone with “participation awards” for everyone.