Looking at the players leaving, and those coming in for next year, I can't see where our on field leadership will come from.
Dobbo would be an option, but for one thing he has enough on his plate being our main creative player, but as well as that, it didn't go that well for us with him in that role at the start of the season when Galea and Green were missing.
i don't think any of the new signings fit the bill either, unless we have a surprise coming in. We seem to have gone from having a pool of seior players who could fill the role in Vella, Newton, Galea, Briscoe etc to having virtually none.

Captain: Dobbo
Vice Captain: O'hara

Captain : Dobson
Vice Captain : Burns

Leadership Team : Welham, Withers, Paea and O'Hara.

All the above!

I'd replace those with Paterson, Hodgson and Lovegrove.

Josh Hodgson is natural captain material, leads by example and is a right gobby get, perfect.

Tuimavae = forward leader

Thats good to know Roops,we certainly need some leaders, i for one next year would make Lovegrove skipper knows the club inside out and always gives everything to the cause.

If Salter gets dropped to accomodate the return of Welham then its a complete travesty. Welham should be trained in the close season to play on the wing. Would make a far better winger than he ever will centre.

Salter is one of the finds of the season and outplayed Webster for me. He should be in the starting line up and other players to battle their way back into the team.

salter and welham should be 1st choice centre,s and josh hodgeson an easy choice captain

lovegrove captain for me. agree that there arnt too many leaders in the squad but think a few more signings are to come

Must be quite a few players coming in who haven't yet been announced?

The OP is correct and , as a kinda neutral , I agree with the sentiment.

Rovers will struggle with getting out of the bottom 3 next season , they are cutting about 500,000 off their cap and paying existing players less (Lovegrove for one ).

This really impacts on performance and moral and with no real leaders you will struggle. If this ws happening at FC I would be fearing the worst due to the above - MORAL .

Bulls , if they stay in SL , will do the same , cut back to 1 million on the cap as they strive to break even. Maybe FC will in 2 years time as AP runs out of patience if we don't break 14,ooo or make a Final etc