If we were going to seriously entertain Lodge then I think we owe it to both him and ourselves to tread carefully and probably buy ourselves some insurance on the whole thing.
The best way I can see to do this is by installing a Leadership Group, which I generally don't really like the idea of, but I think in our specific situation it has plenty of merit.
To appoint Glenn or Gillett comes with massive risk that either or both of them will succumb to injury or be unable to hold down a spot in the starting side at some point. The risk with Lodge is that he's obviously got a reputation he's working to overcome and there is obviously going to be commercial ramifications to a decision to appoint him as Captain, whether those ramifications are warranted or not. He's also still quite young and untested in a Leadership capacity to the best of my knowledge.
I think that a situation where Glenn, Gillett and Lodge (I'd even be open to one or two others) form a Leadership group, with a view to Glenn and Gillett initially taking the more public duties and in particular dealing with the Referee's especially as they generally play more minutes than Lodge, with a view to them grooming Lodge to take gradually bigger roles as time goes on, would be a great way to ensure that we hedge our bets and don't end up in the current situation with no one really a perfect fit to take the role.
In time it could even grow to include the likes of Fifita and Carrigan etc and I'd be confident that in 2-3 years from now we'll have a really competent group of leaders to take us forward and possibly even one standout candidate who could take the job on his own.
It's the most low risk option we can take going forward in my view and without any clear standout candidate I think it presents by far our best option.
