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Message: [QUOTE="1910, post: 2806373, member: 8272"] Far be it for me to give your words any credibility because they have none but let me just direct you to Lockyer when he started captaincy and how he didn't handle it. "I came back from that tour full of myself, thinking I was the Australian captain and I had just whitewashed an Ashes series," Lockyer said. "I was going out too much and having fun with the boys a bit too much. "I got handed the Australian captaincy before I was the [URL='http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/sport/nrl/teams/brisbane-broncos?teamid=3489']Broncos [/URL]captain and before I was the Queensland captain. "Then I became captain of the Queensland Origin team in 2004, and in that period I certainly wasn't focused enough on my footy. "I went from being a player in those rep teams to being the Australian captain and the Queensland captain in the one year. "It crept up on me and there were a few years there where I didn't handle it at all well. "It all went to my head." [URL]http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/sport/nrl/broncos-captain-darren-lockyer-admits-fame-went-to-his-head/news-story/a24408ad2c92ce2bd994fcec67b465ca[/URL] "There was only one time after he left home that we felt the need to ring Wayne and speak to him about what Darren was getting himself caught up in," she said. "That was when we felt his betting on the horses was getting a bit out of control." Sharon said she also rang her son's player agent George Mimis, who then flew from Sydney to Brisbane to talk to him. "We just felt a bit helpless being so far away," she says. [URL]http://www.couriermail.com.au/sport/nrl/darren-lockyer-reveals-in-new-autobiography-how-he-beat-gambling-problem/news-story/6cee44d0daa6c938a99d3114c92166bd[/URL] Just highlighting that other players/captains have had issues and grown into the role and learnt to be captains. Wally hid mental problems for 30 years. Boyd's past problems don't exclude him from learning the role. [/QUOTE]

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