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Message: [QUOTE="WASSHHH, post: 2871567, member: 9424"] McGuire reminds me a lot of a Tallis style captain. Not the most clever captain, not the most skilled, but the most passionate and a mongrel, as you've referred to. He's the player every other player would look at before the game and feel safe following, knowing that while he's leading you, you're in with a chance purely because he will do whatever it takes to win. Now I'm not suggesting making him captain, but I do think he'd be better than Boyd. Boyd almost got it by default because Bennett loves him and he's the most experienced. But like Thaiday, I think the pressure of being captain almost saps his personal game - particularly when times are tough. Those same tough times are when people like McGuire shine. More on Boyd, I believe he has been off since he was overlooked for Slater in Origin. He's never going to be a Tallis style captain, but he could be a Lockyer style captain. When his team needed him, Lockyer demanded the ball - I think back to Origin III 2006 where the refs did everything they could to win it for NSW, or the test match where Ricketson scored on the siren. Lockyer was everywhere when it mattered and without him, we would have lost those games. On another note, although he got a case of the dropsies, I truly admired what Thaiday tried to do when he came back on on Thursday night - he was on a one-man mission to inspire the team with his charges. It didn't work as he dropped the ball, but at least he was willing to put his body on the line and give it everything he had. If Boyd is going to lead us to the premiership, which I truly hope he can, he needs to find the ways he can inspire his team when they need him most. [/QUOTE]

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