{"id":131105,"date":"2021-09-19T06:47:00","date_gmt":"2021-09-19T06:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=131105"},"modified":"2021-09-19T09:57:15","modified_gmt":"2021-09-19T09:57:15","slug":"legend-backs-dusty-to-take-over-tigers-captaincy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=131105","title":{"rendered":"Legend backs Dusty to take over Tigers captaincy"},"content":{"rendered":"

Shane Crawford has backed Dustin Martin<\/a> to become Richmond's next captain, suggesting the presence of a leadership group will help the Tigers star to continue leading by example.<\/p>\n

Richmond has a massive leadership void to fill after three-time premiership captain Trent Cotchin announced that he would step down<\/a> from the role ahead of next season.<\/p>\n

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As one of the team's most experienced campaigners and its best player, Martin's name is one that has been thrown up as a potential option to lead the Tigers forward.<\/p>\n

Crawford, who captained Hawthorn for five seasons, admitted it isn't always ideal for the best player to be the team's captain, but believes Martin could succeed in the role.<\/p>\n

\"Dustin<\/p>\n

"Trent Cotchin, when he first took over as captain of the Richmond Football Club, he copped it in the media," he told Nine's Sports Sunday<\/em>.<\/p>\n

"He turned himself into one of the great captains. He was fantastic on the field, great off the field. <\/p>\n

"Dustin Martin, he leads from his actions and there's still room in the AFL for captains of [that type at] footy clubs. Wouldn't it be great, him just getting out there and leading by what he does on the footy field? <\/p>\n

"'You've got a leadership group, so you've normally got about four or five older players around you who can share the load, so if ever you're going to be a captain in an AFL side, today's the day."<\/p>\n

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Shane Crawford has backed Dustin Martin to become Richmond's next captain, suggesting the presence of a leadership group will help the Tigers star to continue […]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131105"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=131105"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131105\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":131107,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131105\/revisions\/131107"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=131105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=131105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=131105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}