{"id":12066,"date":"2018-04-23T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-04-23T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/uncategorized\/kane-cornes-picks-the-three-best-captains-in-the-afl-right-now\/"},"modified":"2018-04-23T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2018-04-23T00:00:00","slug":"kane-cornes-picks-the-three-best-captains-in-the-afl-right-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/sport\/kane-cornes-picks-the-three-best-captains-in-the-afl-right-now\/","title":{"rendered":"Kane Cornes Picks The Three Best Captains In The AFL Right Now"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Kane Cornes<\/strong> has tipped his hat to <strong>Taylor Walker<\/strong>\u2019s inspiring role in Adelaide\u2019s Friday night win over Sydney, but the Crows captain didn\u2019t make Kane\u2019s top three captains in the AFL right now.<\/p>\n<p><strong>1. Joel Selwood<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><h3>\u201cThe best captain in the game by far, providing the blue print of what a captain should be,\u201d Cornes wrote in The Advertiser. \u201cBrilliant player, courageous, inspirational and a model citizen off the ground. Truly a once in a generation leader.\u201d<\/h3>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>2. Trent Cotchin<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><h3>\u201cThe reigning premiership skipper has improved his all-round game by 20% in the last 12 months. He now attacks every contest with ferocity and wins his possessions in more dangerous areas. The family-man carries himself with class off the field.\u201d<\/h3>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>3. Phil Davis<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><h3>\u201cNot yet a premiership captain but after two Preliminary Final\u2019s appearances in the last two years he is well on his way. His direction, courage and consistency places him in the top echelon.\u201d<\/h3>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Round 5- the week the captains stood up. In the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TheTiserSport?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@TheTiserSport<\/a> I list my top 3. Plus the Port stars who are MIA and more. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/biX5DyATL0\">https:\/\/t.co\/biX5DyATL0<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Kane Cornes (@kanecornes) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/kanecornes\/status\/987985356422197248?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 22, 2018<\/a><\/blockquote>&#13;\n<script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kane Cornes has tipped his hat to Taylor Walker\u2019s inspiring role in Adelaide\u2019s Friday night win over Sydney, but the Crows captain didn\u2019t make Kane\u2019s top three captains in the AFL right now. 1. Joel Selwood \u201cThe best captain in the game by far, providing the blue print of what a captain should be,\u201d Cornes [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":5990,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[143],"tags":[],"geo_market":[],"class_list":["post-12066","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sport"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.3 (Yoast SEO v27.3) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Kane Cornes Picks The Three Best Captains In The AFL Right Now - FIVEAA<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/sport\/kane-cornes-picks-the-three-best-captains-in-the-afl-right-now\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Kane Cornes Picks The Three Best Captains In The AFL Right Now\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Kane Cornes has tipped his hat to Taylor Walker\u2019s inspiring role in Adelaide\u2019s Friday night win over Sydney, but the Crows captain didn\u2019t make Kane\u2019s top three captains in the AFL right now. 1. 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