Essendon Captain 2023, who do you think it will be?

[Captain_Jack]

The following quote is taken from the Fremantle thread, but is pertinent here.

@Houli_Dooley

Fyfe said he is comfortable with how the captaincy transition is playing out at Fremantle.

“If they are handled poorly it can signal disruption,” he said. “If they are handled well I think you can get momentum. We wanted to make sure that this worked for the club, this worked for me and we had strong alignment.

“The willingness to continually learn and not be afraid to make mistakes and fail: that is the big thing about leadership. To embody and live it and learn from experience is the biggest element that I have found.

“That growth, particularly when you are the captain of a footy club, comes under a lot of scrutiny. If you don’t have that inner drive to walk your own path and develop as you go it can get quite overwhelming. I will be here to support whoever our next captain is and I hope that is what they find in their journey.”

To me this sounds like an endorsement of Merrett.