This does not speak highly of Allardyce's management skills. Surely from his initial decision-making of choosing a team captain he must have had a No.2 choice in mind. Surely he would have a Plan B & Plan C on his agenda when he knows full well that injuries occur and players leave for various reasons.
Has the role of 'vice-captain' been made redundant nowadays?
More players arrived since Geremi, tbf. In addition, he came in to the job this summer without having a chance to get to know the squad. So, really, your point isn't valid.
I think my point has more validity than yours Mr. Patrokles, when you are in the process of deciding who should be the team captain it's quite obvious you know the number of players from whom you have to choose, and in deliberating over it you obviously consider the attributes of every player and what they have to offer the position.
If you have already gone through this selection process once why should it pose such a difficult problem to make a second choice?
How many players arrived since Geremi? they are the only ones he would have to sort as he's done the rest already.
You ignored the rest of my post, tbh, which was written in anticipation of a point like that. You're talking nonsense again.
No no no Mr. Pratokles, I didn't ignore the rest of your post, I merely addressed what I thought was pertinent to Sam's difficulty in decision making. And after spending many, many years in a position where man-management and decision making was critical I hardly think I'm talking nonsense again. If Sam had already gone through the motions of selecting a team captain with say 75% of the players on hand, the addition of a few more players should not make it a difficult decision to choose another.
I think he has all ready chosen his captain but perhaps not told the squad yet, and by doing so I think players like Barton and Smith will try and play that extra bit harder from now and January.
