{"id":30365,"date":"2016-11-09T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-11-09T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/uncategorized\/give-crows-captaincy-to-sloane-says-grant-thomas\/"},"modified":"2016-11-09T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2016-11-09T00:00:00","slug":"give-crows-captaincy-to-sloane-says-grant-thomas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/show\/give-crows-captaincy-to-sloane-says-grant-thomas\/","title":{"rendered":"Give the Crows captaincy to Sloane, says Grant Thomas"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Grant Thomas has stuck by comments he made that Rory Sloane should be made captain of the Adelaide Crows.<\/h3>\n<p>\u201cHe just may learn a couple of other little things that he hasn\u2019t been exposed to,\u201d Grant tells the FIVEAA sports show\u2026<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think the game\u2019s gone past the captaincy issue to be frank. In days gone by, yes, it was maybe appropriate to get behind one person. But every single bit of leadership and culture you\u2019re trying to develop in a club actually flies in the face of what a captain is about.\u201d<\/p>\n<h3>LISTEN HERE:<\/h3>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"no\" height=\"166\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/292039671&amp;color=ff5500&amp;auto_play=false&amp;hide_related=false&amp;show_comments=true&amp;show_user=true&amp;show_reposts=false\" width=\"100%\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Earlier in the week Grant said taking the captaincy off Taylor Walker wouldn\u2019t change the forward star\u2026<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEven though Taylor Walker, everyone says, is a fantastic captain. Well Taylor Walker is going to be a fantastic leader in any game he plays,\u201d Grant said.<br><br \/>\n\t\u201cHe\u2019s not going to change, he\u2019s not going to drop his bottom lip and be any different. Captains keep being captains even when they\u2019re not captains and when new captains become captains logic tells you you\u2019re twice better off.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He told Rowey and Bicks that leadership groups run footy clubs.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think the days of entire clubs getting behind one person isn\u2019t as effective or as efficient as it could be.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t believe one person should have that opportunity for 10 years. I just think it\u2019s ridiculous.\u201d<\/p>\n<h3>MOST POPULAR<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/shows\/david-and-will\/tom-rehn-and-kane-cornes-run-the-ny-marathon\"><strong>TOM REHN\u2019S RUDE SHOCK AFTER FINISHING NY MARATHON<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/shows\/david-and-will\/no-trust-in-nuke-plan-we-ve-got-work-to-do\"><strong>JAY WEATHERILL ADMITS: \u201cWE\u2019VE GOT WORK TO DO\u201d<\/strong><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Grant Thomas has stuck by comments he made that Rory Sloane should be made captain of the Adelaide Crows. \u201cHe just may learn a couple of other little things that he hasn\u2019t been exposed to,\u201d Grant tells the FIVEAA sports show\u2026 \u201cI think the game\u2019s gone past the captaincy issue to be frank. 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