{"id":24919,"date":"2021-01-21T01:13:11","date_gmt":"2021-01-21T02:13:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=24919"},"modified":"2021-01-21T04:01:14","modified_gmt":"2021-01-21T04:01:14","slug":"broncos-veteran-vows-to-take-back-captaincy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=24919","title":{"rendered":"Broncos veteran vows to take back captaincy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Brisbane Broncos veteran Alex Glenn has declared he wants another shot at club captaincy with new coach Kevin Walters to make a decision in the coming weeks.<\/p>\n<p>Glenn, who captained Brisbane last year in a season which saw the club <a href=\"https:\/\/wwos.nine.com.au\/nrl\/brisbane-broncos-wooden-spoons-thrown-on-red-hill-training-ground-after-cowboys-loss\/c266790e-5a31-4d15-8033-3933cc252498\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" title=\"claim its first wooden spoon\">claim its first wooden spoon<\/a>, was limited to just eight games due to hamstring and knee injuries. He also missed time following a deep cut which required surgery.<\/p>\n<p>It&#x27;s expected Walters won&#x27;t name a leadership group, but instead continue having the club&#x27;s leadership led by just one sole captain.<\/p>\n<p>With the captaincy up for the grabs, Glenn, who took over last year from Darius Boyd, has once again put his hand up for the opportunity but said whether he&#x27;s picked or not, he would support Walters&#x27; decision.<\/p>\n<p><img data-id=\"74f475b0-5acb-4b10-a4da-8dbc2f605fb7\" src=\"https:\/\/prod.static9.net.au\/fs\/74f475b0-5acb-4b10-a4da-8dbc2f605fb7\" alt=\"Alex Glenn\" data-width=\"1396\" data-height=\"785\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&quot;I feel like last year I didn&#x27;t get that opportunity because I was pretty injury-prone unfortunately,&quot; Glenn said.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;It&#x27;s something that I would really love another opportunity at but in saying that it&#x27;s not going to dictate the person that I am on the field or on the training paddock.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;I&#x27;m still going to lead whether I&#x27;ve got the captaincy next to my name or not.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;At the end of the day, it comes down to Kevvie. Kevvie&#x27;s a very smart man, he&#x27;s been around many successful clubs. He&#x27;s been with the Queensland Origin team, he&#x27;s been around true professional leaders.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;He&#x27;s got to pick the leader he thinks is going to be best for the club this year and then long term. I&#x27;ll support him whichever way he goes and the decision he makes, it&#x27;s not going to dictate the person I am on and off the field.&quot;<\/p>\n<p><img data-id=\"178a340b-cdae-47c2-981b-1e5f0b37440c\" src=\"https:\/\/prod.static9.net.au\/fs\/178a340b-cdae-47c2-981b-1e5f0b37440c\" alt=\"Kevin Walters\" data-width=\"1396\" data-height=\"785\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The 267-game veteran will be honoured with a Testimonial Game on February 27 against the Cowboys.<\/p>\n<p>Despite being off-contact at the end of this year, Glenn confirmed he&#x27;s yet to consider retirement or what his career will look like post-2021.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;I&#x27;ve not really [thought about retirement] at the moment because the last week, there has been so much going on with the missus and the baby,&quot; Glenn said.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;The next month leading into the testimonial, I&#x27;ll find myself reminiscing on the career that I&#x27;ve had.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;It&#x27;s just a huge opportunity to give back to the fans who have been there for me.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;I&#x27;m not saying this is going to be my last year \u2013 it&#x27;s just going to be one of those things that will pan out throughout the year.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;I&#x27;m looking forward to ripping in with the boys and staying out on the field more than I did last year.&quot;<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>For a daily dose of the best of the breaking news and exclusive content from Wide World of Sports, subscribe to our newsletter by<\/em><\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/login.nine.com.au\/login?client_id=wwos&amp;redirect_uri=https%3A%2F%2Fwwos.nine.com.au&amp;newsletter=true)\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"clicking here!\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong><em>clicking here!<\/em><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Brisbane Broncos veteran Alex Glenn has declared he wants another shot at club captaincy with new coach Kevin Walters to make a decision in the <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=24919\" title=\"Broncos veteran vows to take back captaincy\">[&#8230;]<\/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\/24919"}],"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=24919"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24919\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24921,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24919\/revisions\/24921"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}