gooberman wrote:
Bearer of Bad News wrote:
gooberman wrote:
Bearer of Bad News wrote:
sessengnon is a world class player who has now settled. didnt see it as a big or brave decision captaining him at all.
World Class? No.
well hes comfortably better than others who get banded about in that category like nasri, mata and young.
keep not captaining him because you think hes not "captain material" x
Dont have him to captain. Still think he's not captain material. His goal today was only his second at home all season. People who captained him today took a gamble and got lucky.
This "not captain material" way of thinking is such a specious argument. Your captain should be the player you think is most likely to score more than any other player in your team for one week only.
Nothing else. That's it.
Sessegnon could be the best player in someone's team, or more likely he could be playing at home against the bottom club when all the other players are away to more difficult opposition. Captaining him doesn't mean you're saying he's a
better player than the others, just that he stands a better chance of scoring the most points
that week.
Looking to give the captaincy to someone who is "captain material" in your eyes would be an appropriate approach only if you had to choose one player to be your captain for the entire season, where you can ride out the poorer weeks by ensuring you capture every big haul, in those circumstances then RVP, Rooney etc are all great candidates, knock yourself out. But when the top 4 clubs from which captains are most often chosen all play each other in one week then looking elsewhere is perfectly reasonable.
Now, the usual suspects might go out tomorrow and all score hatricks and you'll doubtless say it proves this line of thinking completely wrong, but the fact is the odds favour some of the lesser used candidates this week, for Walters backers it didn't work out, for Sessegnon backers it did. Lucky? I don't think so, it was well reasoned and well rewarded. He was most definitely "captain material" if being captain material means the player most likely to score the most points this week.
My god, talk about stating the obvious! Obviously i get that. I was just saying that In my view, captaing sessegnon over van persie is a gamble regardless of who sunderland and arsenal are playing. Van persie is by far the best striker in the league and can and will score against anyone.
Sessegnon may well score higher than vp this week now but before the games started, the fact is it was a gamble to pick him over vp. He had scored 1 goal at home all season and a double figure score from him would have been in hope rather than expectation.
