Quote Grimmy="Grimmy"I'd class Peacock is a good cool head under pressure though. He will stand up for himself and his team mates in fights obviously but I tend to think that's when it is required of him to be an enforcer (e.g when Fielden got floored) rather than when the opposition have managed to get under his skin. You can't really put Peacock off his game like that, but you can with Bateman.
Farrell was a brilliant player, lead by example and him rollocking the team under the sticks was crowd pleasing, but controversially I'm not convinced his 'shout at everyone' style of captaincy was very effective. I suppose it's difficult not to give a player the captaincy when he is a miles better player than those around him though.
Sinfield - I've no idea what his pace has to do with it. Again, he was a cool head under pressure, no issue with him talking to the referee, I don't recall him ever giving away a penalty for dissent or appearing out of control. He is likely someone the referees could communicate effectively with. I can't say the same for Bateman at this stage.'"
It's pretty clear that, either together or individually, Peacock and Sinfield provided what Leeds are sorely lacking at present - and that is quality leadership.
Faz's shouty style was more from the Alex Murphy school of captaincy, and the trouble with that is if that's all you've got where do you when the players get used to it? That, for me, is why Murph ultimately got found out as a coach. But as you stay, Faz was so much better than everyone else around him that he was a towering figure and an obvious skipper.
I preferred the Hanley approach myself, which was to maintain a constant dialogue with the ref and rather than publically bollock his players if they got things wrong, have a quiet and encouraging word with them. I know he gave out team rollockings, but that's fair enough as no individual was being humiliated.
