But the veteran managed just eight games due to injury and was replaced by Patrick Carrigan and Brodie Croft as fill-in captains.<\/p>\n
Gun forward Payne Haas is considered among the contenders<\/a>, however his arrest earlier this month may have dashed his chance<\/a>.<\/p>\n Walters told media yesterday Milford was among those jostling to become the Broncos' 11th official captain in history.<\/p>\n "We'll make a decision on (the captaincy) later next month or early March when the season starts," Walters said.<\/p>\n "There's certainly some guys putting their hand up and Anthony is one of them.<\/p>\n "He's a good trainer and he's a good player. It's now for Anthony to work in with the team and sort out the problem areas that we face.<\/p>\n "I've been very impressed with all the players and Milf has come back in good shape post-Christmas, which shows he's determined for a really good season here at the Broncos."<\/p>\n Milford has teased Brisbane fans with shades of brilliance at five-eighth, halfback and fullback since crossing from the Canberra Raiders after the 2014 season, but consistency has always been a concern.<\/p>\n The 26-year-old made two State of Origin appearances for Queensland in 2017 and 2018 but has since been overlooked.<\/p>\n Walters said he expected every one of his players to be accountable regardless of who was named captain.<\/p>\n "Alex Glenn did a good job under difficult circumstances last year but we want all of our players to be leaders," Walters said.<\/p>\n "It doesn't matter if they're captain or not; we want them all to stand up and play the way they can play.<\/p>\n "We know what they can do on the footy field and it's now for them to do that in a few weeks' time."<\/p>\n 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> clicking here!<\/em><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Boom five-eighth Anthony Milford has emerged as a contender for the Brisbane Broncos' captaincy in the club's darkest chapter. Several players are in contention to […]<\/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\/28367"}],"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=28367"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28367\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28369,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28367\/revisions\/28369"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/p>\n
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